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gotmilk5101520 · 3 years

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Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia Watch Episode 5 Waka Chaka!

Honestly, coming up with things to say here was way easier in my ML Rewatch.

UPS, FedEx, or Amazon?

And now we get these little fuckers.

“Ola-mola!” I guess that means “Coast is clear”?

Goblin with a mustache count: 1

“Over here! I found it!”

“It won’t open!”

“He’s coming!”

“He’s here!”

“What’s he doing?”

“What?”

“Ha-ha!”

That was pretty graphic.

Goblin with a mustache count: 2

“Waka chaka!” “He shall be avenged!”

“Always be afraid”

“Fear heightens your senses”

“Fear keeps you alive”

“Arrogance gets you killed” Never be arrogant.

“You know, i think being afraid is the one rule that i- Oh!”

“I excel at” I excel at being afraid too. No wonder i’m still alive.

“I assure you, the truth is far more interesting, and there’s no better place to start than Renaissance Era pottery”

Only one of them is interested. The rest? Sleep.

Nothing important here, just move on.

“Wait a minute. You’re a monster fucker?” “Yes i am” “If you’re a monster fucker, than i’m an alien fucker” “Steve, everyone knows you’re an alien fucker” “Wait they do?” “Yes. You have sign that says “I Heart Alien” on your locker. Then again makes sense given you’re also Keith from Voltron-” “No, no. Never bring up that series again” “Fair enough”

“Hey, Steve! Did you hear about the Neanderthal exhibit?”

“Topless”

“Nice” They really got away with this? There’s a bunch of Getting Crap Past the Radar in this series, but they’re not on the level of Star vs the Forces of Evil.

“What about you? What’s calling you, Jim Lake Junior? Oh wait that calling is Trollhunting. And i’m not suppose to know that yet”

Wait. How was Eli the only one to see this? How did no one else see that when they pass by? It’s still there when Jim, Toby, Blinky, and Aaarrrgghh got there. No one else took a picture and posted it online?

“If you weren’t going to show up for rehearsals, why even try out”

“Honestly, i kind of auditioned by accident” Yeah.

“I believe auditions end in five minutes”

By accident.

“Where there is one, there is many”

“And, as for the unfortunate soul who ran over this small fellow”

“May Skaargen’s swift blade have mercy”

Pray for the poor unfortunate soul. In pain, in need.

“It appears the only thing being delivered is failed expectations” This quote is true. Why don’t we use it more? Voltron, Game of Thrones, Star Wars, Marvel, Supernatural. You name it.

“War Hammer to Trollhunter, the package has arrived” That was fast. They just said it wasn’t here.

The Trump Supporters going to raid the- No i’m not going to do that. That is an insult to the goblins.

“Yes! My spy gear has arrived!”

“Unassembled!” That was Amazon’s fault. Not the employees.

“He shall be avenged!”

Honestly, goblins are scary, but the fact that they’ll always avenge one their own is actually kinda sweet. Scary, but sweet.

“Whoa... Where’s my truck?” He got fired the next day, did he?

“Thank gosh for Nana’s anti-burglar mania” Those lights keeps us safe from burglars, and goblins.

“Wa-cha-ka!” “We’ll be back”

“I find stress eating calms me down” Eating always calms us down.

“Great Gronka Morka!”

“What is the gnome doing in this dollhouse?” This is a high priority.

“Toby-pie? I don’t recognize that voice. Who is that?”

“It’s a friend, Nana! I do have more than one!”

“No, you don’t” Savage Nana.

“Aaarrrgghh and i will seek out this den, wherever it may be”

“You just focus on your studies”

“It seems life has thrown enough at you for one day”

“But a gnome in a dollhouse?” Don’t let this be anyway to get away from the fact that a gnome lives in a dollhouse.

“Hey, come on! You gonna your head in the game, Tobes. You know like that High School Musical song”

“My gronk-nuks” Always hit them in the gronk-nuks.

“Pretty good, Romeo”

“But kiss your Juliet goodbye”

“Leave Claire out of this. And how do you even know i like her?” “Everyone knows” “Steve, you’re stupid, You couldn’t figure this out yourself” “I did figure this out myself!” “...” “Fine. Eli told me” “Sorry Jim”

“Pucker up, Steve, and kiss this!”

“Whoa!”

“NO!”

“Oh, snap!”

“Why is everything and everyone talking in slow motion?” “To make it more dramatic” “Okay, can we speed this up so the ball can hit me in the face, and you guys can go to the museum and then go to jail?” “Fine”

“Nunez, why didn’t you DODGE?!”

“So, she has a fat lip. People pay good money for that sort of look” Wait.

She took a dodge ball to the face, and she only got a fat lip? Claire, i love you, and you’re my favorite character and everything, but bullshit (Or as Draal would say: Bushigal!) that should’ve given you a black eye. Actually looking more closely, she should’ve gotten a broken nose. And Claire, again, i love you.

I paused and got this. Enjoy it.

“It was better when you could see the Neanderthals”

How the fuck do you not look up?!

What the fuck?!

“She’s a monster, Jim! I saw her face! it wasn’t natural!”

“She’s, like, some sort of troll-

“What?”

“...but one of us. Like a weird half-breed thing, man”

“Maybe it was just the lighting”

“The lighting?” It’s always the lighting’s fault.

“But a human Trollhunter”

“That i’ve never tasted”

“Then let’s see how you like the taste of Daylight”

“That was a good one, Jimbo” That was a good one.

“You... Give it back!”

“You’ll die for that”

Truth be told i actually recognize that song playing in the background. Don’t know the name, but i heard it before. It was on a Miraculous Ladybug crack video on YouTube. It was so funny.

“All that fancy armor and you’re just a scared little boy”

“Fear heightens your senses”

“Fear keeps you alive”

“Arrogance gets you killed”

“Arrogance gets you killed!”

Arrogance will be your downfall.

Goblin with a mustache count: 3

“No, it wasn’t me! No! No!”

And she somehow survives this.

“They’re walking among us, Tobes! Anyone could be an Imposter!”

“Hands up!”

“On the ground, now!”

“Dispatch, we have the teens that match the description of the museum break-in. You’re coming with us” 5 episodes in and they’re already going to jail.

Shapeshifting beings walking among us? Who could be an imposter?

And tomorrow is a battle to the death!

#trollhunters #milk watches trollhunters #tales of arcadia

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itsclydebitches · 4 years

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I LOVE shows where the heroes kill the goons and are still unambiguously good. The original Star Wars trilogy had a lot of this, Luke has a body count in the MILLIONS after blowing up the Death Star, but most seem his the ideal hero during the original trilogy era, and they’re right! I also regret bringing up FMA 🤢 I hate that show so much 😒

LOL oh no I’m sorry for delving into a series you hate that much. Yeah, even the most popular stuff isn’t going to be to everyone’s tastes. There are a couple super popular anime that I simply couldn’t get into despite the hype.

Agree about Star Wars though. In the sense that I theoretically agree that it’s a problem, but it never bothered me overly much in Star Wars specifically just because the original trilogy was pretty simple in regards to its Good vs. Evil dichotomy. Fresh-faced, orphaned farm boy is Good. Creepy, masked, dressed all in black Sith is Bad. The audience is very capable of asking those questions themselves - “Hey, why is Luke treated as an unambiguous hero when he slaughtered so many people? Even people on the wrong side?” - but it’s not a question that the story draws any attention to (not to my recollection, anyway). Pretty much every interaction contains that Good/Bad simplicity. When Darth Vader is choking people he’s Bad. When he saves Luke he’s Good again... or at least good enough that no one is supposed to question Luke carrying his father and sadly watching him pass. The story doesn’t invite you to grapple with whether Luke should demonstrate empathy here, you just roll with the “fact” that he’s good enough again to receive that. We might not agree with/like that setup (heroes/villains who do horrible things but are nevertheless celebrated/forgiven) but I acknowledge that the complexity inherent in that isn’t what every story is going for. Some stories just want you to engage in that black and white perspective from the get-go. It’s a particular type of escapism.

Which, for me, is the difference between something like Star Wars and RWBY. RWBY, in contrast, has deliberately introduced a TON of gray and built that directly into its story in a manner that they WANT you to grapple with. They want to be “deep.” The complicated ethics of any given situation is meant to be at the forefront of these conflicts... yet at the last point we keep swerving back into that black and white thinking to ensure that the “heroes” remain heroes. If you want me to unambiguously support them like Luke Skywalker than don’t draw any attention to those complications. Fans might realize those complications later - “HE KILLED SO MANY PEOPLE??” - but that’s not built into the celebratory moment of destroying the Death Star. RWBY is building those moments in and is thus responsible for following through with them.

Basically, if a story does the work to say, “I don’t want you thinking too hard about this. Please just enjoy this tale of good conquering evil” I’ll go, “Okay!” and do that. I might acknowledge those complexities afterward if I feel like it, but I won’t drag the story for it because I recognize that examining those were never the story’s intention. I’m not going to yell at someone for not making a victorian sponge when they said they’d be bringing a box vanilla cake. They’re both good in different ways. But if the story does acknowledge those complexities... does promise something more technically/morally deep... and then doesn’t deliver? That’s a problem.

#star wars #rwby #mymetas #Anonymous

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gffa · 5 years

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Alphabet Squadron | by Alexander Freed SPOILERS FOR ALPHABET SQUADRON. One of the things that I find to be sort of fascinating--in a way that I’m not sure how I feel about, because it’s a big, complicated tangle of issues--is the look at the New Republic and how it wasn’t always that great. Bloodline covers how they sank into inefficiency almost immediately. The Poe Dameron comics touch on how nobody wants to hear about or think about the Empire anymore. So many of the other ST-based supplementary materials talk about how nobody wants to admit the First Order is a thing that’s happening. Black Spire is all about the people of Batuu not wanting to pick a side. Allegiance is all about dealing with how people are scared the New Republic is going to drag them into the same brutal war they faced with the Empire. Aftermath novels point out that the New Republic is really kind of toothless and is caught between a rock and a hard place, re: overextending themselves to help people vs creating a stable system to build on. Alphabet Squadron is primarily about the hot messes that are joining the New Republic, it’s a street-level look most of the time (and the main higher up who appears is Hera, who is amazing), but there’s this moment towards the end. Where the New Republic sent a squad after an Imperial Major, where they were shooting to kill when he wouldn’t come with them. This is similar to the way the Aftermath crew comes together to hunt down Imperials who committed atrocities during the Galactic Civil War, only seen from the other side this time. The wrinkle of the whole thing is this--the Imperial Major tried to get his crew to join the New Republic, those who could make a life there anyway. And he tried to disappear, to walk away from it all, but the New Republic hunted him down, so he realized there was no place for him. On the one hand, it’s hard not to feel at least a little sympathetic that someone wanted to walk away from fighting for evil, they wanted to take themselves out of the equation. But on the other hand, he did so after they lost. Not just after Endor, but after Operation Cinder and the Battle of Jakku. After he knew he couldn’t win, then he left. Left behind all the horrible things he would have been a part of in the Empire. No shit they’re not going to just leave him be, he gave that up when he stuck with the Empire long past the time it was even somewhat understandable. Yet this probably also means shit’s going to hit the fan and people are probably going to die, because he felt driven back to the Empire, because there was no place for him in the new galaxy the New Republic was building. But that’s also not on the New Republic, they’re not the ones choosing to go be an asshole, they’re not responsible or at fault for Soran Keize‘s shitty choices. One of the things that the supplementary material works really well for with me is that it doesn’t diminish that Star Wars is a space fairy tale about good vs evil, but there’s room in the comics and novels for a more difficult look and that there are no easy or simple answers. But seeing the mistakes of the New Republic, yet knowing that they were unequivocally the good guys, that they were trying to find a path out of a horrible situation and didn’t have 20/20 hindsight or an omniscient point of view, really gets me in the feelings place.

#soran keize #novels #meta

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popculturebuffet · 4 years

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Top 8 Worst Christmas Episodes

Happy Holidays everybody! If your wondering where i’ve been.. i’ve been a combination of swamped with holiday activity, and just plain activity, and procastinating on getting content out for this blog.. but i’m kicking myself to actually get in gear. And I can’t think of a better reason than the holidays. I love this time of year, while it can be physically and financially exhausting, people can act like rabid wildebeasts in stores, and there’s no end of jackasses who refuse to accept that Christmas isn’t the only holiday in town and that it’s perfectly fine if people want to you know, celebrate something else. But beneath it all is heart: giving gifts to people you love out of the kindness of your heart, beautiful decorations put up with care and holiday warmth, people freezing their asses off for charity everywhere.. there’s a lot of good done and a lot of good underneath. And part of that good is Christmas Episodes. I do love me a good holiday episode and there’s been plenty of great Christmas epsidoes with a few Hannkuah and Kwanza ones thrown in. But for the mountain of presents of episodes, that we will get to, there’s also a small pile of cole that’s become sentient and stalks me every holiday season.. my meataphor may of gotten off track but the point is out of the VAST majority of good to decent holiday episdoeds there’s a handful I just.. flat out hate. ones that either miss the point, are unecessarily cruel and not nearly funny enough about it, or ones that are simply bad episodes of their show that happen to be christmasy. SO let us unwrap the pauly shore of christmas gifts, these are my 8 most hated christmas episodes.. and this is just episodes of ongoing shows, not specials (Though the episode being longer than usual is fine). Otherwise number one would be that time Chewy’s family killed time while his wife’s dad masturbated. As for why 8, my lists on this blog will vary based on need and I could only find 8 I TRULY loathed.. I didn’t want to pad the bottom of the list with mediocre episodes... only the cream of the crap and my christmas fury here. Now that’s out of the way, let’s ho ho go. P.S. No the brooklyn nine nine episode is not on the list, I just love tha timage and felt it fit.

8. The Finster Who Stole Christmas (All Grown Up) This is by far the tamest on the list. I don’t hate All Grown Up. It is a confused shows (with early middle schoolers acting like high schoolers and what not), but it’s just medicore at worst outside of a few episodes. This one though.. is just bleh. Chucky\ finds a tree on the street that’s perfect, wanting to have a memorable christmas for once. HE takes it home, thinking it’s abandoned, and it’s instead thought to be stolen and we spend a whole epsidoe watching a fucking 12 year old slowly be consumed by guilt.. I hate these kinds of plots. it’s one thing if the character genuinely fucked up or you mine some humor out of it, but it’s a nother when a character genuinely made a mistake and is instead internally tourtured. All the kid wanted was a tree.. he was kind of an idiot but the amount of vitrol over someone TAKING A TREE OFF THE STREET THA TWAS UNMARKED AND YOU DIDN’T TAKE INSIDE. is baffling.

7. Merry Christmas Mordecai (Regular Show) I do like Regular Show. While i’ve latched on to other shows far more, I still enjoyed the show and was a huge fan of it for some time.. this is the episode that killed that. The reason it’s lower is as an episode, it’s only the last two minutes or so that’s truly terrible, but GOD I hate this episode with every fiber of my being.. .the arc would get MUCH worse, but this did kick it off and turn me off the show for some time, though I did come back by the final season so there’s that. The plot is simple: Mordecai is nervous because his ex Margret will be at the same party he’ll be with his new girlfriend CJ. Things go fine, it’s awkard but whatever.. and then he has a flashback.. and KISSES HIS EX , PASSOINATLEY AS SEEN ABOVE, in FRONT of his new girlfriend. The hero of our show, who was kinda shitty early on but that was ironed out by this point, cheated... and ruined a relationship I happened to really like. The problems of this arc are deep, vast and will require their own article some day, but yeah.. this one scene ruins the episode and set off one of the worst romantic plot tumors i’ve seen in a show and is so nonesnical , yes I get getting swept up in old emotions but you still cheated dum dum, I can’t help but put the whole episode here. It’s like a tootsie pop but the center is somehow full of bees: sure you enjoyed it but the amount of beestings in your mouth will make you hate the experince anyway. That said I will leave this clusterfuck on this blessed image because fuck if it can take it away from me.

Thank god they didn’t ruin these two for me.

6. Doug’s Christmas Story (Doug (Nickleodeon Run)

Only 90′s kids will rue the day this episode was born. Doug was mostly a bland and forgetable show.. but this episode is just unspeakably depressing. The premise is Doug’s dog, porkchop, saves local rich kid Bebe from thin ice, she thought he bit him.. and doug’s dog gets put on trial and SENTENCED TO DEATH AT THE POUND. Despite the fact the thin ice sign is clearly there, and this is a GROSS over reaction to a leg injury that wasn’t even caused by the biting. Porkchop knocked her down he didn’t tear off her leg or something.. the ep is lower because it IS well voice acted, but good acting only makes it that much more heartwrenching and makes me question WHY THIS for the christmas story. It’s not a TERRIBLE idea for a story, but for an episode your going to play every year ,epseically for a young network such as nick who only had three shows to start and thus would need this in rotation for some time, WHY would anyone think “Dog gets sentenced to murder for doing something good” , even if it turns around in the ending, is something people would want to SEE every year. Just a poorly written tear jerker that , while thankfully far away from my own nieces where it can’t scar them for life, will likely never leave my memory.

5. Stump Day (Star vs the Forces of Evil) Oh god this one.. while the top 4 are far worse, this one is still ungodly aggravating. It DOES have a good joke at the begining. Kid: Uncle River can you tell us the story of stump day? River: (Jovially) Ha ha ha, you don’t tell me what to do! (Tells story anyway) But after that... ti’s the story of Marco throwing Star a birthday party on Stump Day, Mewni’s christmas. As someone who has a birthday near a holiday, if not on one, I do sympathize. All your present days and celebration are crammed into one tight period. Marco means well and gathers all her friends, and her boyfriend tom.. and star flips out not wanting to piss off the stump. So far no bad... Marco meant well but didn’t know how much she cared, Even though Tom warned him I do get star being unpredictable and thus taking the shot anyway.. then he INSISITS on having the party anyway, and has the fucking BALLS to call tom a bad boyfriend when tom eventually calls him out on wanting to keep it going. Especially since Marco COULD’VE just made it into a holiday party to make her happy without sending everyone home. But no he had to be a selfish, entitled dick weed. While tom DOES lunge at marco after Marco calls him a bad boyfriend, Marco again went FAR out of linea nd insulted his own friend because he’s jealous Tom’s with star, and he’s not. ANd then a stump attacks... and then TOM’S forced to apologize. For attacking marco, yeaht hat’s fair but for being a bad boyfriend? No... Marco was the dick and he basically wins anyway despite agian, a simple solution being right there. Let’s move on.

4. Road to the North Pole (Family Guy) Oh boy this one.. this was at the tale end of my watching Family Guy, before “Quagmire’s Dad” out and out pissed me off enough to finally leave, being you know a transphobic mess i’ll defintley talk about in the future, but this was close: An uncomfortable, unfunny christmas special that starts with Quagmire being overly hostile to Brian for a mistake he couldn’t have possibly known about and continues into a trip to the North Pole where the elves have become deformed due to industralization and Santa is deathly ill and Stewie and Brian have to convince people to ask for less to save him. The IDEA here is not bad, and after this and the doug entries I want to make something clear: dark, twisted, messed up... these are not bad things for a christmas special to be. Futrama’s two christmas episodes , and to a lesser extent it’s one holdiay episode, are really funny and this trinity’s going to war from the movie is a holiday staple to me.

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See that’s some good all inclusive holiday hilarity that’s patently messed up.. and a emotinal holiday story with some dark themes? also works... King of the HIll had a whole episode where bill was sucidial before taking on the persona of his ex wife that was damn good, having some humor while still having a fairly depressing story with a solid emotional core. You CAN be dark , subversive.. but you have to have a point. Doug was bad because it leaned too far into the misery and that’s what ultimatley hobbles this episode too. You have to have SOMETHING to make people invested besides holding a gun to their dog’s head or KILLING SANTA. This ep has a godo concept, santa having to industralize to keep up and slowly growing exausted or sick from it.. it’s not bad at all.. but the ep takes it too far and dosen’t have enough emotion to it to brign us back from the brink. It’s especially galling since family guy had DONE a christmas episode in it’s earlier, better seasons, that was far better than this, so while I don’t fault them for wanting to do a second one I DO fault them for doing it so poorly and wasting a potetinally tearjerking and well done concept on a crappy meanspirited wasted hour of my life.. because oh yes, this was an hourlong special. Ho ho hum.

3. Miracle on Evergreen Terrace (The Simpsons) This one MEANS well but just ends up misrable. The premise isnt’ TERRIBLE: Bart burns down the christmas decorations, fakes a robbery and then feels really guilty as the family is helped by those around them. The issue is when Bart is found out, while his family is furious the town ALL shuns the simpsons with pure hatred, and later robs their house and leaves them with nothing. It’s not an episode i have TONS to say on like those above and bellow, it’s just miserable... and like I ranted about before black comedy can work but this took it too far: most of the simpsons did nothing wrong and bart was throughly punished with his heavy amount of guilt. The show already did “Bart feel sbad after doing something awful at christmas time” FAR BETTER in “Marge not be proud” which, while one I don’t really watch because it is hard to watch at times, is still excellent and Is hard to watch for the RIGHT reasons instead of just being mean spirited. Now from mean spirited to .. I dont’ even know with this one.

2.. Mrs. Wakefield (King of the HIll) What a shock, ANOTHER show I really like that had a terrible episode. No really most of these shows I liked at some point. That includes the top 2, King of the Hill, especially towards the end, had some really bad ones, and a really REALLY weird one that played out like a psyological horror film and ended with a mentally damaged man turned into sausage, yes really, and this one is no exception. Mrs. Wakefield is the story of an old woman who grew up in the hills house.. and wants to die there... just stay until she dies. I get being lonely during the holidays, which is the given reason why she’s really doing this she’s cripplilngly alone: being alone sucks. I know this, I understand this.. but it still dosen’t mean you can die in someone’s house. That’s a traumatlizing pile of stuff your foisting on people you barely know and Hank keeps getting vialnized for throwing her out by the neighbors.. for NOT WANTING SOMEONE TO DIE IN HIS HOUSE. And later it gets to the point where she’s playing hider in the house and hiding in there trying to die.. what COULD be kinda funny in a twisted way just ends up being creepy. And again this episode had what was essentially a horror story about Luann marrying an older man who slowly moldeed her into the mascot for his company, chased her and peggy around in a pig mask, then got cured of his psychosis just in time to end up as sausage. And yes that was a real thing that happened. They probably shouldn’t do horror but they can do it but here it’s just dumb. Also for those curious while I haven’t seen it hider in the house is a film i’ve heard of about a man who lives in the walls of a house and stalks the suburban family that moves in to no one’s shock, it stars gary busey. I would also not be suprised if that was his life right now. But busey aside, this episode is terrible and like family guy after it and simpsons before it, King of The Hil lhad several stellar holiday episodes and as I mentioned made suicide and devloping a split personality into comedy while still keeping the drama so this.. this is inexcusable. Speaking of inexusable

1. A Robot for All Seasons (My Life as a Teenage Robot) Oh my aching head this one.... yeah this one somehow COMBINES problems from above with it’s own bundle. It has the tonal issues most of these have, being far too bleak without any real effort to back it up.. but it also makes the ENTIRE CAST into dickheads Minus our hero and her semi-stalker Sheldon. The basic premise is Jenny, our teenage robot, gets kidnapped and taken over by a miserable boy who has her ruin christmas and every other holiday and then wake up with no memory of her being BRAINSWAHSED into it. The IDEA isn’t bad... it’s a dark cirumstnace but it’s a good premise for a half hour special and would have her on the run with her friends trying to help her after beliving she couldn’t do it right? Well... as I said, ENTIRE CAST: Brad, Tuck, HER OWN FUCKING MOTHER all apparently belivie jenny just snapped and did this all on her own, despite you know mountains of super villians. No one came looking for her, no one thought she was acting weird, no one cared. her mother is outright working on the next model.. it’d be okay if they were supsicious or if they wondered why or if ANY OF THEM besides sheldon had looked for her or done anything or if the bad guy had had her act like this was her idea.. but no she just acts massively out of character by ruining lives for a full year, and no one is suspcious and by the end all is forgiven for both the antagnoist and the assholes, even though the assholes all abandoned their best friend/daughter instead of trying to figure out what’s wrong and the angagonist, kid or no kid STOLE A YEAR OF JENNY’S LIFE AND NEARLY RUINED THE REST OF IT. And I know she’s a robot, she is immortal etc.. but she wants to be normal. she lost a year of high school, a year of friends and nearly lost everything.. and yet is just supposed to FORGET that? or that again everyone around her minus her stalker gave up on her? Fuck that, fuck this and... have a happy holidays. The holidays are more than this pile of garbage and I will be back sometime before the 25th to celebrate the best rather than the worst, to spread joy rather than headaches.. but I do hope if you had to endure any of these that this helped you like it helped me. Have a wonderful holiday time and i’ll see you soon.

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erdariel · 4 years

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Okay, so, first of all, a disclaimer. In this post I'm not gonna debate whether Rise of Skywalker was a good movie or not, or whether this whole sequel trilogy was any good or a complete shitshow. Everyone probably has their own opinions, and I don't really care what they are. And of the point I'm gonna bring up next, I do not mean to say it's good or bad desicion (honestly, in these things, is there even objective good or objective bad? Dunno). It just sort of... caught my eye, and I like rambling so I'm gonna ramble about it.

(Also, please keep in mind, I'm really just a casual watcher of Star Wars, not really a fan, I have no in-depth knowledge of the universe and I don't wanna be involved in the fandom. I just think lightsabers and Rey and princess Leia are cool and R2D2 and BB-8 are cute.)

But yeah, my point is, it's an interesting choice to have Kylo Ren redeemed. I mean, yes. I know why they did it, I understand. He was following in Darth Vader's footsteps, and as Vader's life, so his, would lead into the Light again. They were tempted, both by promises of good things and threats of bad, by evil people being evil and by basically good people accidentally fucking up, they were led into the Dark Side, they didn't set out wanting to conquer the world for themselves. It makes sense. Though of course, after the evils they'd done, the only way to end their tale in Light was the "Redemption equals death" trope, because death is the ultimate sacrifice, so of course it's also the one that will get more things forgiven than anything else. But still, they had to be redeemed, both Vader and Kylo Ren.

Except... I think Kylo Ren's sins would in most stories count as worse. Why? Because of the first memorable villainous act - really, their most villainous act - on screen in the movies. I would argue that for Darth Vader, it's killing Obi-Wan Kenobi. For Kylo Ren, it's killing Han Solo.

I don't think those acts are equal. On the first glance you might think so. It's the villain around whom the story revolves, killing the older character who's acted as some kind of a mentor to the hero or heroes. Okay, Han Solo had been one of the cool young heroes in previous movies, whereas Obi-Wan (until the prequels came, anyway) had not, so there has to be even within the story a slightly different weight given to Han Solo's death, it has to be kinda dealt with, properly. But otherwise, you might think at first that it's the same.

However, the intention's of Obi-Wan vs Han when they go face Vader/Kylo are different. As is the relationship between the villain and the character he kills. The intention, as a rule, must affect how the death is portrayed in the narrative and how it feels to the audience. The relationship does not necessarily havr to affect it, probably, I guess, but it typically does and there's certain clear ways it typically affects things in fiction.

Let's discuss the intention first. Obi-Wan goes to face Darth Vader in battle, to give the young heroes time to get their plan done and escape. He doesn't necessarily intend to kill Vader, but he intends to fight him, and is prepared, expects, actually, to die as a result of it.

Han Solo, on the other hand, goes to face Kylo Ren in order to once more offer the chance to turn to the Light Side, to come back to the right path. He doesn't intend to battle, just to talk. He doesn't seem to be prepared for the possibility that Kylo will kill him, or at least he's not expecting it anymore at the point when he is killed.

Those, just story-wise speaking, aren't equam. At least I wouldn't accept it if a story said that killing someone in a fair fight, when they have come to the fight willingly and fully aware that it may result in their death, was equal to killing someone who didn't have a weapon in their hand, trying to solve things by speaking, by surprise without giving them even the chance to defend themselves. But what about the relationship between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader/Han Solo and Kylo Ren?

Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader used to have a teacher/student kind of relationship. A very close one, true, and there was friendship also in addition to their formal master/padawan relationship.

But Han Solo was Kylo Ren's father. They were close family. And in my experience, western fiction at least (I kinda assume that eastern fiction as well, but I don't have much experience of Japanese fiction and next to none of Chinese, or Korean, or Indian, or, well, you get my point, so I can't know for sure) tends to hold parent/child relationship as especially important, nearly sacred. I'm not saying that's how it should be, and I'm not saying there aren't any exceptions, but I feel that generally speaking, parent/child -relationship is very important. Due to that, still generally speaking, I feel that it tends to be a worse crime in fiction for a child to kill their biological parent (unless the parent is a proper villain, in which case killing them could be a justified act) than for someone to kill their former friend, or their former teacher.

On both of the aforementioned scales, Kylo Ren's act should be considered worse. It should make him less redeemable. Okay, fine, Kylo Ren also killed two bigger villains and saved Rey's life, as opposed to Darth Vader who only killed one bigger villain and saved Luke's life, but I don't think that alone is enough good deeds done to balance out his evil, if even for Vader's deeds, death was still required to redeem him.

It's just an interesting choice, to make Kylo Ren commit crimes that typically in fiction are portrayed as very grave and yet have him redeemed. I'm not saying it's a wrong choice, and I'm not saying it makes the sequel trilogy bad. As I said, I understand the writers' reasons for choosing to redeem him. I have my own opinions on whether it was good or bad, but I tried my best to leave that out of this. I'm entitled to my opinions, all of you are entitled to yours. I just found what I explained above interesting so I thought I'd point it out.

#star wars #star wars rise of skywalker #star wars sequel trilogy #darth vader #kylo ren #star wars villains

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Reblogging a post from the prior blog, typos and all, because while I like the meta I am not comfortable sticking this on AO3.

Originally posted on 06/08/2018

I was kindly directed towards this post about the Mind Trick (it’s not a Jedi specific ability, so I’m not going to refer to it as the Jedi Mind Trick), because it’s one of my areas of interest and I can think of at least 3 of our stories where we’ve already planned on addressing the topic.

There is…rather a lot of this post that I take issue with. I’m making my own post because it’s a big fandom, everyone gets to view things how they want, don’t harsh the squee, etc etc.

Stuff under the cut, TRIGGER WARNINGS for: mind fuckery, gaslighting, victim blaming, and mention of various mental illnesses.

To start: mind fuckery is bad. I have a lot of personal experience with gaslighting, so I get twitchy about the notion of someone messing with my head. When I say gaslighting here, I mean both the vernacular (someone lying to fuck with a target) and the technical sense (from Wikipedia: “a form of manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or in members of a targeted group, hoping to make them question their own memory, perception, and sanity. Using persistent denial, misdirection, contradiction, and lying, it attempts to destabilize the target and delegitimize the target’s belief”). So the possibility of someone coming in and forcibly changing my perceptions and memories is Very Not Cool. I think it’s an ability that canon does use a bit too casually for my own preferences, but the same could be said about how quick everyone is to pull out blasters.

Calling it ‘evil,’ though, goes way too far. As with many things, it’s neither good nor bad, it’s about how it’s used. So what good uses are there, you might ask?

Well, just off the cuff, we’ve got:

Breaking gaslighting

assisting with hallucinations and compulsive behavior

assisting with phobias

basically all the things cognitive behavioral therapy is useful for, now with a Force-assisted oomph

treating addictions

treating trauma, including PTSD

assisting with meditation and mindfulness

aiding memorization and learning

non-violent means to defuse potentially violent situations

Now, that last one in particular is questionable, and would vary as appropriate from situation to situation. Which is a greater evil, a security guard shooting and presumably killing a bank robber that could kill lots of people, or a Jedi using the Mind Trick to get them to surrender to authorities? People will probably give you different answers, but that’s the point about how this is tricky. It also doesn’t even get into ‘who decides how ethical a thing is’ and fears of authoritarian regimes, which I’m just not in the mood to tackle right now.

Moving on, we’ve got the OP’s interpretation of sources.

I. Well. Look, EU stuff is of questionable quality and level of canon in the first place. Secondly, there’s that weird split in both fandom and creators of canon where Jedi and Sith tend to be viewed as all good or all bad, not organizations what are fucked up and in need of reform. Third, I don’t have the texts they’re quoting so I can’t give you context, meanwhile it’s first person which is often used as an authorial mechanism to give unreliable narration and so immediately makes me hesitate to accept them whole-heartedly.

With all that in mind, I have a REALLY different interpretation than OP.

Jedi Order does not disclose their power, people don’t know how the Force works. All they know is that Jedi are good. That’s it.

Totally false. Both Jabba and Watto knew about the Mind Trick when it was being used on them. These are folks from Outer Rim areas – the boonies, where Republic education would not be standardized and taught – neither of them seems to be the type to either have extensive knowledge of fairy tales about Jedi abilities, nor a background in historical trivia. When Jabba declares he’s immune to Jedi mind tricks, no one around him acts confused or surprised – there’s no question what this is. Watto – a former soldier who now owns a junk shop – also knew the handwave was meant to indicate something, like he knew exactly what it would convey. So I’m pretty sure this means it’s common knowledge.

No, wait, it’s demonstrated in the next quote as to be known:

referred to by Jedi as affect mind and alter mind, but popularly known as Jedi mind tricks

JEDI refer to this ability as Affect Mind. OTHERS call it Jedi mind tricks. That doesn’t mean Sith, that means the general populace.

there are rumors but the victims are usually dismissed (or end up with brain damage) because they didn’t understand what happened to them and because this power was usually performed on “less influential” members of the Republic

Not backed up by their own data. The quote mentions “a relatively innocent subject” but there’s nothing that extrapolates to mean it’s more often used on the poor/disadvantaged. It IS typical Jedi sanctimoniousness, but it’s not about targeting more vulnerable beings.

The brain damage comment is also inaccurate for reasons I personally find frustrating. The quote is “the power can easily cause permanent damage”.

That doesn’t mean brain damage. There are plenty of ways to fuck with someone and ruin them without brain damage. IF the Mind Trick is extreme and unlimited in power, then you can make someone: perpetually anxious/depressed; so self-effacing as to never stand up for themselves; vulnerable to specific commands; all sorts of other nasty things.

That goes back to the whole ‘personal experience with gaslighting,’ and I need to point out that any of this can be done with time, patience, and willingness to fuck with someone. You don’t need the Force to do it. The Force is basically a shortcut, but vilifying the Mind Trick right off the bat because it messes with someone’s head and that’s something we norms can’t do is erroneous.

And the Jedi don’t see to care because they see their victims as weak-minded (like they had it coming).

That’s a deliberate spin on the text. Looks like I’m quoting the whole thing because I can’t pick out just one bit:

A Jedi can use the Force to manipulate the behavior and perceptions of weak-minded beings. Essentially, this power—referred to by Jedi as affect mind and alter mind, but popularly known as Jedi mind tricks—utilizes a combination of receptive empathy, projective empathy, and hypnosis. Jedi mind tricks can stop the understanding of what’s really happening by blocking the senses, and can also obliterate memories altogether or even replace them with false ones. [Star Wars Jedi vs Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force by Ryder Windham]

As a Jedi, you should be able to sense immediately whether the guard is prone to violence or susceptible to fear. This knowledge can be used to your advantage, and may direct your use of affect mind. Also, you must determine whether it is best to divert or subdue your target. Such decisions must often be made instantly, without hesitation. What would I have done in such a situation, you ask? I really can’t say. A Jedi is not proud or boastful, and I trust you will understand I am sincere when I say that it is hard for me to imagine that the guard might have spied me in the first place, had I not wished to be seen. But if a guard had seen me, I might make him believe I was nothing but a gust of wind, or the shadow of a soaring indigenous avian. A Jedi can do such things, for it is the will of the Force. [Star Wars Jedi vs Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force by Ryder Windham]

“Weak-minded” isn’t victim bashing, it’s back to sanctimoniousness. The narrator is describing who it can affect. It’s the exact same phrasing that was used in the Original Trilogy when we first encountered it. It’s not “those who are affected by the Mind Trick are weak willed and deserve it,” it’s “the Mind Trick only works on those with weak wills, and if someone isn’t weak willed then we’re just standing there waving a hand and talking like an idiot.” Which ALSO ignores that there are entire species who are resistant/immune to the Mind Trick and mental influences, and they can’t all be ‘strong-willed’ so that means the comment is bullshit anyways. It’s shorthand for “so this works on some people, but if they’re already on alert or tend to be stubborn you’re shit out of luck when it comes to making friends and influencing people even with your space magic.”

The “will of the Force” bullshit is more of the same. It’s a sanctimonious way of saying “I got lucky on the genetic lottery,” not “It’s the will of the Force I have this power and it’s the will of the Force this weak-minded being is here therefore it’s the will of the I remove their agency and do what I want to their mind.” Yes, some assholes are going to use that as an excuse for their behavior. Assholes are always going to find some excuse for their behavior, be it religion, substances, background, or whatever else might be in reach.

On top of all this, the Mind Trick is hardly a Jedi specific tool. In Rebels the Inquisitors use it. I want to say that Palpatine used it too but I can’t find anything convenient on Wookieepedia and I’m sorry, I’m not rewatching six movies and Clone Wars just to prove a point. Meanwhile, Mother Talzin DID visibly use it to manipulate both Asajj Ventress and Savage, so Nightsisters are obviously familiar with it. There’s no reason other Force users couldn’t do the same, it’s just that Jedi are the predominant group of such in the Republic.

In sum, the Mind Trick is a dick move, that post presumes a lot of incorrect things, and it really shouldn’t be called the JEDI Mind trick.

Finally, in criticism of the Jedi Order: Qui-Gon is so casual about his use in TPM, it makes me twitch. I love the guy, massive faults and all, but it often feels like this is the first tool he reaches for, not the last one. I get that this is a time-critical mission with an entire city going into prison camps, and those peoples’ fates rest on him getting shit done fast. I get that he has to weigh the Chancellor’s request vs planetary needs vs individual autonomy vs the lives of those he’s responsible for. (It’s still most often a dick move.) Meanwhile Obi-Wan’s…THING in Attack of the Clones with the deathstick dealer – I will never understand it, and I usually headcanon it as something other than what we literally see because WHAT EVEN you do not fuck with someone’s head like that. The casual “let’s raid Cad Bane’s mind!” thing in TCW is several massive types of awful. Given these charming examples (and there are others, but those are the ones I immediately think of), it’s no wonder that the Order has a reputation.

~end

There was also a follow-up post the same day:

oft-goes-awry replied to your post:I was kindly directed towards this post about the…

RE: Obi-Wan and the Death-Sticks Guy - Without going too deeply into the Mind Trick as a whole, I think we can break this moment into two parts, neither of which are GREAT, or good, even, but are mostly pragmatism and Jedi sanctimoniousness. 1) “You don’t want to sell me death-sticks” = “I am trying to remain undercover in this bar, without causing a fuss or getting people shot, and I have neither the time nor the patience to argue with you or risk a scene. …so please, GO AWAY.“ 2) "You want to go home and rethink you life.” = Jedi Sanctimoniousness, I know what’s good for you better than you do, and I don’t think anyone should be selling death sticks, so see, I’m HELPING you? Because Jedi know better and I am a Jedi, peon!

Yes, thank you! Well said! And credit where (what little) credit is due: he tells the guy to rethink his life, not actually change it. If dude goes home, thinks on things, and decides nope, he’s already living the life he wants, then he can keep at it –

which still sounds awful and sanctimonious, but it’s not quite as skin-crawlingly horrible.

#reviving from the purge #star wars #Norcumi has Opinions again #thinky thoughts #jedi #tw #mind fuckery #gaslighting #mental illness #victim blaming

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For the week of 7 May 2018

Quick Bits:

Accell #10 begins the next arc, largely focusing this issue on Danny trying to get back on his feet, and assess damage and reparations of his personal life. Joe Casey and Damion Scott are still giving us the most traditional superhero book of the line here.

| Published by Lion Forge / Catalyst Prime

Analog #2 is an interesting throwback. I like how Gerry Duggan, in creating this future, has effectively tossed us back to the stylistic action and intrigue of 70s and 80s thrillers.

| Published by Image

Backways #5 is the explosive conclusion to the first arc. The story reveals some of the extremes that Anna can go to with her powers as she attempts to save Sylvia. Eleonora Carlini and Silvia Tidei really shine with the art.

| Published by AfterShock

Despicable Deadpool #300 is a bit of a mess, but I get that was intentional. All of the “Marvel Universe Kills Deadpool” arc has been one failure after another as the assorted heroes and villains of Marvel have been unable to stop Deadpool. The ultimate solution leads to an opportunity for Gerry Duggan to travel through many of the highlights of his run on the series.

| Published by Marvel

Domino #2 continues the fun, action, and weird moments of self-reflection showing the true vulnerabilities and insecurities of tough-as-nails mercenaries of the first issue. Gail Simone is doing a great job at bringing out the depth of Domino’s character and the art from David Baldeón and Jesus Aburtov is gorgeous. I had pretty high hopes for this series, given how entertaining Simone’s previous work on Agent X and Deadpool were, and she’s exceeded expectations.

| Published by Marvel

Exiles #3 is still following the whirlwind pace set by the first two issues as the team continues racing through the multiverse, gathering new and old allies, as they try to come up with a plan to stop the Time Eater. This, of course, allows Javier Rodríguez to really step up with his designs and layouts for the weird and crazy worlds the team is travelling to.

| Published by Marvel

The Highest House #4 is consistently some of the best art and storytelling in comics right now, with beautiful artwork from Peter Gross and Fabien Alquier, as the intrigue in Mike Carey’s script hits a fever pitch.

| Published by IDW

Hungry Ghosts #4 ends the series on a high note, with stories illustrated by Irene Koh and Francesco Francavilla. Like the previous issues, the stories from Anthony Bourdain and Joel Rose are likely to be familiar to you, especially the Snow Woman as variants of it have been told and retold multiple times, but they’re well told here. And with wonderful artwork, all deftly elevated by José Villarrubia’s colours.

| Published by Dark Horse

Hunt for Wolverine: Adamantium Agenda #1 is the second of these mini-series, this one following a handful of Logan’s New Avengers compatriots. That remit at least makes more sense than the Weapon Lost premise, and leads to a flashback of Wolverine selflessly taking one for the team and thus having Iron Man, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, and Spider-Man start chasing down a lead for a DNA sequence sale in the present. Tom Taylor’s story gets more interesting from there and I look forward to seeing where this goes. Also, some really nice artwork from RB Silva, Andriano di Benedetto, and Jesus Aburtov. If given the chance, I wouldn’t mind seeing this creative team do more New Avengers, or even Defenders, material once this is over.

| Published by Marvel

Isola #2 is probably the most beautiful thing you’re going to find on the shelves this week, which is saying something since there’s also an issue of Monstress. Karl Kerschl and Msassyk are just raising the bar higher and higher on how gorgeous the comics page can look in the span of two simple issues. Apart from being a visual treat, the story is also captivating. Kerschl and Brenden Fletcher have a fable here that taps into the same kind of magical realism, whimsy, and ephemeral beauty of a Hayao Miyazaki film and it’s incredibly engrossing.

| Published by Image

Medieval Spawn & Witchblade #1 is some decent dark fantasy. Brian Holguin, Brian Haberlin, and Geirrod Van Dyke set up a pretty bleak, undead tainted past to throw what appears to be a new Medieval Spawn into, as much of this issue works to flesh out the mystery of his past and the blight that currently besets the land. No sign of a Witchblade yet. Some nice dark and moody art from Haberlin and Van Dyke.

| Published by Image

New Mutants: Dead Souls #3 is a turning point for the story, giving us essentially a reason for why all of this weird stuff is going on and more particularly why at least some of these former members of different incarnations of the New Mutants are present. All while the team starts turning on itself as Matthew Rosenberg begins to deal with some of the continuity and history of the team members. It’s good. If you’re a long time reader of these characters, you should love this. If you’re not and you’re a newcomer with this series, it’s still fun, with some great Adam Gorham art.

| Published by Marvel

Oblivion Song #3 raises some interesting questions about the people who were transported over into Oblivion. How living through that nightmare for ten years could have changed them, possibly made them go feral, and how troublesome it might be to have them readjust to life in a safe and sane world. Obviously the answer would seem to be to bring them back anyway, but it’s still an interesting question.

| Published by Image / Skybound

Old Man Logan #39 actually has a pretty clever play on one of the X-Men’s most prestigious stories in the title as “Glob Loves, Man Kills”. That should give you an idea as to the content of this issue, but I won’t spoil the surprise if you’re unsure. That said, we get more development on Old Man Logan’s problems with his healing factor, and Glob has a date. Nice artwork from Ibraim Roberson and Carlos Lopez, and it’s welcome again, like his run on Cable, that Ed Brisson is playing with the wider world of X-characters.

| Published by Marvel

Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man #304 reminds you not to mess with the past, even if it’s ostensibly for a good reason. It never works out. Except in the art department. Adam Kubert gets to show off some nice redesigns for the heroes here and a really nice new version of a somewhat surprising villain.

| Published by Marvel

Port of Earth #5 returns us to Mac and Rice’s plight, with Rice not only dealing with the loss of his girlfriend, but finally figuring out what the alien was up to with his stolen badge. This is still a relatively slow moving series, with the issues fairly systematically broken down into an opening section that focuses on a documentary style analysis of the Port, the contract with the aliens, and the ESA and then the action following Mac and Rice, but it’s entertaining.

| Published by Image / Top Cow

Punks Not Dead #4 is still somehow raising the bar on how inexplicably strange this series can get, even as it’s making more and more sense.

| Published by IDW / Black Crown

Resident Alien: An Alien in New York #2 unfurls the mystery further as Harry and Dan try to figure out who wrote an NYC phone number in alien script. Steve Parkhouse’s art, as usual, really draws you in.

| Published by Dark Horse

Rough Riders: Ride or Die #4 is a fitting conclusion to the adventures of Teddy Roosevelt and his band of luminaries, even if we may see a different incarnation somewhere down the line. Adam Glass and Patrick Olliffe created a worthwhile real life analogue to literary supergroups like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and the three series are worth picking up.

| Published by AfterShock

The Spider King #4 brings an end to this excellent mix of Viking action and weird science. It’s been a great story with amazing art, highly recommended.

| Published by IDW

Venom #1 is pretty damn good. The story from Donny Cates is compelling, building up a mystery for strange behaviour from the symbiote and expanding upon the Venom history, but stealing the spotlight is the art. Ryan Stegman was a good artist, with this issue he’s laying claim to being a great artist. With JP Mayer providing inks over Stegman’s pencils and Frank Martin delivering on the colour work, this is a damn fine looking comic. A great debut.

| Published by Marvel

World of Tanks: Citadel #1 is somewhere between Garth Ennis’ two usual war story extremes; the deeply serious realistic tales of historical war battles and incidents of series like War Stories and the over-the-top dark humour of Adventures in the Rifle Brigade. As such, it’s all right. Most of it is set up, allowing the tank drivers and gunners to get acquainted with their vehicles and crew. The art from PJ Holden and Michael Atiyeh is fairly nice.

| Published by Dark Horse

Other Highlights: Astonisher #7, Barbarella #6, Betrothed #3, Betty & Veronica: Vixens #6, Black Cloud #9, Calexit #3, Dejah Thoris #4, Dissonance #3, Ghostbusters: Answer the Call #5, Ghost Money #10, Green Hornet #3, Incredible Hulk #716, Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock #1, Maestros #6, Monstress #16, Outcast #35, Planet of the Apes: Ursus #5, Prism Stalker #3, Pumpkinhead #3, ROM & The Micronauts #5, Rose #11, Runaways #9, Savage Tales: Vampirella, Sleepless #6, Southern Bastards #20, Spider-Man vs. Deadpool #32, Star Trek: The Next Generation - Through the Mirror #2, Star Wars: Darth Vader #16, Star Wars: The Last Jedi #1, Star Wars Adventures #10, Star Wars: Thrawn #4, Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #32, Xena: Warrior Princess #4, X-Men Blue #27, You Are Deadpool #2

Recommended Collections: Accell - Volume 2: Pop Quiz, Amazing Spider-Man: Venom Inc., Angelic - Volume 1: Heirs & Graces, Beasts of Burden: Animal Rights, Dark Fang - Volume 1: Earth Calling, Death of Wolverine - Complete Collection, Despicable Deadpool - Volume 2: Bucket List, Hawkeye - Volume 3: Family Reunion, The Shadow: Leviathan, Sheena: Queen of the Jungle - Volume 1, Sherlock Frankenstein and the Legion of Evil

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Games with on-screen kisses

Should be considered story spoilers (except for maybe dating sims), so browse at your own peril.

On-screen means a visible kiss on the lips, in-engine, cutscene or, in the case of visual novels, CG art. Games with descriptions of kisses in text only do not count.

This is far from complete but I think I’ve got most of the obvious ones, as always, suggestions and corrections encouraged (but no suggestions for games featuring unavoidable rape please).

I could really use more examples for the M/M only section as it’s currently mostly porn games in there (where all the smoochy games at?). :/

M/F:

Akatsuki No Goei (M/F)(Hentai game)(CG)(Translation patch)

Always Remember Me (Otome CG)

Alpha Protocol (Several kisses with optional romances as leads into fade-to-black sex scenes.)

Amagami (CG)(Translation patch)

Aquaria (Naija and Li)

Assassin’s Creed 3 (Kenway and Kaniehtí:io/Ziio, Myriam and Norris )

Assassin’s Creed 2 (Ezio and Cristina)

Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (Ezio and Caterina)

Assassin’s Creed: Unity

Batman: Arkham Knight (Batman and Catwoman)

Binary Domain (Dan and Faye)

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars (George kisses Nicole while she is tied up and she gives him a rightful bollocking for taking advantage, but later forgives him.)

Brütal Legend (Eddie and Ophalia)

Catherine (Anime style cutscenes)

Contract Marriage (CG)

Dandelion (CG)

The Darkness (Jacky and Jenny)

Dead Rising 3 (Nick and Annie)

Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories (In the good ending Adell and Rozalin smooch, CG art)

Dra+Koi (M/F)(CG)(Hentai)(Translation patch)

ef - a fairy tale of the two (dating sim, cg art)

Enchanted in the Moonlight (CG)

Fahrenheit aka Indigo Prophecy (Two optional, one unskippable, two leading into terrible sex scenes, one of which involves QTE thrusting, because of course it does it’s David Cage.)

Final Fantasy VIII (Rinoa and Squall finally smooch in the ending cutscene)

Final Fantasy X (Story cutscene while flying around in a magical lake, very Japanese.)

Final Fantasy XIII (Snow and Sera)

Final Fantasy XV (Noctis and Luna)

GoldenEye (James Bond and Natalya)

Hakuōki Franchise (Otome game)(CG)

Heavy Rain (depends on what choices you pick but they’re all awkward and creepy in context anyway)

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (In the middle of a fight Indiana smooches Sophia, how rude!)

Kaleidoscope Dating sim 1 & 2 (CG)

KatawaShoujo (Hentai game, CG art)

Kissed by the baddest bidder (CG)

LEGO Batman (Batman and Catwoman)

Lego Batman 3 (Poison Ivy)

Lord of the Rings: The Third Age (seemingly out of nowhere romance plots with very little build up or logic but does have awkward ps2 facesmushing)

Max Payne 2 (Max and Mona)

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Snake and Eva before a sexy time)

Metel Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Meryl and Johnny)

Metro PD: Close to You (Otome, CG)

Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor (Press X to kiss your wife)

My Guardian Angel (CG)

My Sweet Proposal (CG)

Nameless: That One Thing You Must Recall (CG)

Nicole (CG)(I believe F/F content might be planned in the future)

Office Lover (CG)

Onimusha 2 (Oyu & Jubei)

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Story cutscenes)

Princess Evangile (CG)(There are both All-Ages and uncensored versions of this game)

Psychonauts (Raz and Lili)

Resident Evil 2 (Leon and Ada)

Royal Midnight Kiss (CG)

Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love (CG)

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (at the end of some levels)

Shall We Date Franchise (CG)

Shira Oka: Second Chances (CG)

Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) (Infamous scene where a human princess has to smooch an unconscious Sonic)

Snow Sakura (CG)(Hentai game)

Spiderman: The Movie (Spiderman and MJ)

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Starkiller’s pilot Juno plants one on him)

Storm Lover (Otome)(CG)

Sunrider Academy (CG) (Hentai game)

Sweet Scandal (CG)

Telltale’s Batman (Bruce and Selina)

To Heart 1 & 2 (CG)(All ages and uncensored versions)

Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side Franchise (Otome)(CG)(Translation patch)

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Nate and Chloe smooch fairly early on. Nate and Elena finally smooch on screen at the end.)

Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Elena and Nate again)

Until Dawn (Optional between Chris and Ashley)

Valkyria Chronicles (Welkin and Alicia)

Valkyria Chronicles III (Kurt and one of two possible girls)

War: 13th Day

Wing Commander: The Kilrathi Saga

The Witcher Franchise (usually before a sexytime)

Wolfenstein: The New Order (Anya and BJ)

Yo-Jin-Bo (Otome game, CG art)

F/F:

Flowers -Le volume sur printemps-

Her Tears Were My Light

Highway Blossoms (Both all ages and uncensored versions available)

Kindred Spirits on the Roof (CG art)

The Last of Us: Left Behind (T_T)

A Little Lily Princess

Love is Strange (Life is Strange fanfic)

Nurse Love Addiction

Slumberparty

Starlight Vega (warning for one step-sister romance route)

why is this dragon so fucking cute?

M/M:

Animamundi: Dark Alchemist (CG)(Adult game)

Bacchikoi! (CG)(Adult game)

Coming Out on Top (CG)(Adult game)

Hetalia Sim Date (CG)

Lamento – BEYOND THE VOID – (CG)(Adult game)(Catboys)

No, Thank You!!! (CG)(Adult game)

Silver Chaos (CG)(Adult game)(Translation patch)

Sleepover (CG)(Adult game)

Combinations:

Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate (Roth and Jacob, Evie and Henry)

Backstage Pass (CG)

Bully (M/F and M/M kisses)

Dragon Age: Origins (repeatable smooches wherever)

Dragon Age 2 (Only in romance cutscenes)

Dragon Age 3 (combination of the two, but repeatable kisses only in Skyhold)

Fable Franchise (social actions)

Fire Emblem Fates occasionally gives your player character first person kissing scenes with your chosen S-rank partner.

Heilleen (CG art F/M and F/F)

Hustle Cat (Main character is NB by default)

Injustice 2 (Poison Ivy has a kiss attack)

Jade Empire (Though please note that the same-sex kisses need a mod to display properly without fading to black, see the mod section below.)

Life is Strange (There are options for Max to kiss Chloe and Warren depending on their relationship values.)

LongStory (CG)

Loren: The Amazon Princess (CG)

Lovestruck (This is Voltages’s newer app for games like Astoria and Castaways) (F/F F/M F/NB) (CG)

Magical Diary: Horse Hall (F/M & F/F CG)

Mass Effect (Cutscenes)

Saints Row IV (Parody of romance cutscenes ranging from romantic kisses, to rough BDSM, to implied robot oral)

The Sims Franchise (So many different ways to smooch!)

Singles: Flirt Up Your Life (This is a game about boinking your room mate, but there’s also smooches and 1 M/M and 1 F/F option each)

Shoujo City 2D (F/M F/F)

Spelunky (Rescuing “damsels” will get you a kiss and an extra hitpoint at the end of the level, you can choose from a lady, a dude, a pug dog, or a combination of all three in the game options.)

Stardew Valley (You can smooch your partner)

Starwars: The Old Republic (Many M/F love interests in the main game. The expansions added some M/M and F/F)

Telltale’s Tales From the Borderlands (Several M/F and one F/F depending on paths chosen)

Mods:

Jade Empire Gay Romance Fix

Kissing - Immersive Lover's Comfort (Smooching mod for Skyrim, no other mods required.)

Icha Love (Alternative Kissing Mod for Skyrim, page is in Russian, requires FNIS, SKSE, and SKY UI mods)

Kiss Em All (Yet another Skyrim kissing mod, requires SKSE)

Kiss Em All SE (Port of Kiss Em All for Skyrim SE, also available for XBox1)

Bastila Romance Enhancement (Adds a visible kiss between Bastila and PC to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic)

Carth Romance Fix (Adds a visible kiss between Carth and PC to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic)

Juhani Romance Enhancement (Adds a visible kiss between Juhani and PC to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic)

Kiss (Adds kissing to Fallous: New Vegas, hosted on an adult site, which needs an account to access downloads.)

Caricature animation (Adds kissing to Oblivion, requires OBSE20)

Special Mentions:

Exstetra is a JRPG where kissing everyone is a key game mechanic, but it’s only been released in Japan and unlikely to be localised into English.

KissMe - Adds Kisses to Minecraft but I don’t know if it’s text only or animations.

LovePlus - First person M/F kissing, only available via translation patch.

nummyz dating sims - Needs more research

Paranormal Kiss - Not in English yet.

Sim Girls Franchise - Needs more research

#list actually #romance games #otome #gay lesbian and bisexual gaming

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itsclydebitches · 4 years

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I love that you mentioned Finn because HE kills an assload of his fellow Stormtroopers (people he especially should might be just like him) and that’s just his escape. The destruction of Star Killer base is presented just as good as the Death Star was all those years back. Finn was the black sheep, he’s the only stormtrooper that’s good meaning it’s still justified for him and Luke to kill all of them.

That’s a good point. Yeah, to clarify - just like the discussion of how good or bad it is to blow up the Death Star - I think humanizing Finn does more to complicate the fandom’s interpretations of the heroes’ actions, rather than complicating the text itself. Because as said, Star Wars (the films anyway) seem to keep things relatively simple. These are the good guys. These are the bad guys. There’s now this one (1) bad guy who is actually a good guy and we’re going to emphasize his unique, probably never going to be repeated humanity by 1. Having him remove his helmet (oh hey that’s an individual person under there), 2. Giving him a name (more individuality bestowed by a certified hero!) and 3. Making him force sensitive. The audience can infer things based on his situation and what he says - “Like all of them, I was taken from a family I will never know and raised to do one thing” well damn should we be feeling for all stormtroopers now?? - but establishes him as capital-d Different by having him make the choice to defect and not following up on how that occurred. What allowed him to make that choice? Why isn’t he affected by the presumed mind control stuff at work? Why does he have an emotional response to this cruelty when hundreds of thousands of others don’t? Is it the force? Do we care? For the most part the story answers that question with “No.” It’s not important how or why Finn is different, just that he is. Fandom, however, tends to answer with “Yes” and extrapolates implications. If Finn is different... it’s no longer inconceivable that other stormtroopers are too. So then what do we do with a group of potential heroes/victims rather than simplistically evil grunts? Cue debates about killing them, etc. etc.

So yeah, definitely still justified within the story. Which makes for a good tale because (in this case anyway...) Star Wars knows what it wants to accomplish and runs with it. We’re telling that good guy vs. bad guy story with a defection that’s presented as unique, not the story of how the Resistance’s perception of their enemy is changed via Finn’s actions. That’s work fans can choose to do individually outside of the canon. Canon stormtroopers - with Finn as the new exception - remain the bad guy grunts that make for excellent memes

#star wars

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ruffoverthinksthings · 7 years

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What do you think the Aks favorite book genres are?

I do believe I touched on this before with the VKs, but can’t find it at the moment, so I’ll just focus on answering this with the AKs:

Ben

Horror and Crime Thrillers

With the absence of any true nightmares, “Evil” beings, andeven petty criminal behaviour in Auradon, plus the creation of theIsle of the Lost where all the “Evil” people were put on, youngBen was obviously curious about the nature of “Evil.”

What makes someone “Evil?” Does it really merit such anextreme measure as the Isle? When does an action go from beingquestionable to a crime?

These are all things that could be explained to him by no shortageof legal experts, authorities from the various realms the statesoriginally came in, and the odd religious leader, but between all thetechnicality and the thought experiments, Ben needs something thatengages the other side of his brain, something that truly grips himand shows him the depths of Evil as someone who is victimized by it,or as someone who perpetrates it.

And really, it’s very different to read about the legal,real cases of Jack the Ripper vs being in the shoes of one of theirvictims unaware that this will be the last shortcut they ever take.

“I can know it through police reports, but I can’treally feel it like I do with fiction.”

Audrey

“JaneEyre,” “Gone With The Wind,” and “Twilight” style novels

Audreyis a sucker for classic “Princess” style tales, seeing as that’sexactly what she’s (planning to) live out once she graduatesAuradon, but she is also a product of the Feminism wave thatswept through all of Auradon, and her tastes adjust accordingly.

Shereally enjoys herself some female protagonists that are forced tochallenge and break away from the stereotypes and the societalconstraints that have been thrust upon them, but she also won’t sayno to the plot of a female protagonist being saved by and falling inlove with a handsome male suitor.

Thetroublesome elements and the ill-advised reality of a “rescueromance” where she tries to “fix” a broken man who “lovesher” don’t really bother her or even register to her, as she isalso a product of Auradon’s “love trumps all” belief.

Chad

“HardBoiled” Detective Thrillers, Action Thrillers, Conspiracy Thrillers

Chadwas raised by actual heroes and daring knights, people caught in theworst circumstances possible, only to rise up from them and emergebetter than ever, frequently to the adoration of the people aroundthem and a permanent place in the history books.

WithAuradon being entirely peaceful—well, in the spheres he runs aroundin, anyway—he can’t really find any opportunity for a war or adaring adventure to “earn” the glory he thinks he is destinedfor, nor do anything particularly impressive aside from being one ofthe top Tourney players in the School Leagues alongside Ben.

(Inthe part of his mind that has a strong sense of ethics, but is sadlyignored most days, he is also bothered by the fact that he NEEDS torely on other people doing his homework to actually stay onthe team, whereas someone like Ben can tear up the field andace the tests, no problem.

Thisis a huge part of why he is the way he is, by the way–”AlwaysSomeone Better” Syndrome.)

Anyway,it would make sense that he would enjoy reading about (usually, butnot always) male protagonists dealing with circumstances beyond theircontrol, finding themselves waltzing through a door and findingthemselves in a murderous Wonderland, being stopped, obstructed, andalmost murdered at every turn only to succeed at the end, scarred butvictorious.

Thoughwhen he puts the book or the tablet down, and its back to hiscomfortable, luxurious, easy life, there’s a part of him thatwonders if he will ever find something so meaningful as theadventures of his favourite hard-boiled detectives…

Doug

“PopCulture” Science

Whatwould you need to do if you wanted to build the Great Wall of Chinastraight up?

Ifyou could lift the Formerly Lost City of Atlantis using ping-pongballs, how many would you need?

Ifyou took all the chocolate Arendelle consumes in a year, and made itinto a giant chocolate bar, how big would it be and how would you goabout making it?

Theseare the questions that ignited young Doug’s curiosity about theworld around him, beyond that of the mine and the woodland cottagewhere his uncles and his father works, and Aunt Snow White comes byevery once in a while to bake their perennial favourite, AppleDumplings.

“Hard”Science books about physics, chemistry, and architecture do catch hisinterest eventually, but in the beginning, when he needs a break fromserious problems about real world matters, or is stuck with a problemthat just doesn’t have an obvious solution, he goes to the realm ofwhimsy and wonder with a dash of science.

Sometimes,the unusual questions, odd uses of scientific principles, andhypothetical situations are just what he needs to make his real lifeprojects come to life.

Failingthat, they’re always good fun.

Jane

“HeroesJourney” books like “Harry Potter,” “Star Wars,” and“Fangirl” (Rainbow Rowell)

Asone who’s supposed to be a Future Fairy Godmother, Jane wouldnaturally be very interested in the lives of the types of peopleshe’s supposed to help. The downtrodden, the innocent, those thattried and thought they couldn’t—fictional or real, she lovesreading about how external and/or internal crises knocks on theirdoor, and they find a way to overcome it, oftentimes with the help offriends and magical beings.

Italso comforts her to read about people just like her, outcasts,“weirdos,” and those that just don’t fit in and never willfinding their place in the world, not by changing themselves butchanging the world around them.

Shefigures she will NEVER be like any of them, and her problems willstill exist after the story ends, but hey, that’s why it’s called“escapism.”

Lonnie

Non-Fiction,largely on Revolutions, Societal Movements, and Eccentric Inventorsand Ostracized Geniuses

Eversince Lonnie first heard Hip-Hop and watched a dance-off, she hasbeen obsessed with the culture and how it started in Harlem and theBronx.

Naturally,you can’t study this without getting into the Civil Rights movementand the oppression of African American populations, and you can’tstudy this without getting into the slavery era, and you can’tstudy this without reading about the people who rose up against whatwas considered the norm, fighting for what they believed to be abetter world…

Revolutions,Massive Society Changes, the Geniuses of the World who were thoughtcrazy then and are being revered now—they’re all of massiveinterest to Lonnie, someone who’s never truly fit in, and stillfaces numerous societal pressures to conform with what the worldstill expects, and sometimes demands her to be.

Forclarity, I only use this example to differentiate her from the restof the AKs—she loves fictional outcasts and oppressed minoritiesrising victorious as much as real ones.

Allie

Non-Fictionabout BGU and AGU Cultures and Society, and Sci-Fi and Fantasy

Wonderlandis a weird and wacky place that we can’t even begin to understand,and even its residents admit to not being able to make sense ofit—well, at least in ways that fit into the majority’s idea of“sense.”

Theland down the rabbit hole or through the looking glass has been oneof the biggest sources of fascination (and early retirement) for manyof Auradon’s scientists, scholars, and philosophers, but sinceAllie has lived there all her life or spent every weekend having teawith the Mad Hatter and the White Rabbit, “things being topsy-turvyand hurly-whirly” is completely normal to her.

Instead,her interest radiates to places she’s never been, and will neverpersonally experience herself: BGU and AGU (Before/AfterGreat Uniting) societies and cultures, and of coursethe fantastic worlds that fiction invents.

Donote that she is VERY strict about her world-building and thateverything in your series should subscribe to the logic the worldruns on, or you provide suitable, realistic justification.

“Comenow, I may have come from a world where the Sky talks quantum physicswith the Heron, but even I can only suspend my disbelief for solong!”

Jordan

Superheroes

Peopleand beings born with fantastic powers, or suddenly getting themwhether or not they wanted it.

Oftentimesostracized or feared by society just for being them, with thepotential harm they can cause.

Frequentlyportrayed rising against their own inner demons and outer forces,showing to the world that they do belong, that they were wrong tohave shunned and feared them so, and who oftentimes become idols anddearly beloved members of the society after they prove themselves.

Jordan(sincerely hopes) isn’t about to be pushed into any sort ofworld-threatening danger where she’ll have to explore and push thelimits of her magical powers, and more importantly get over her ownpersonal hang-ups and character flaws for her and others’ sake, butthat doesn’t stop her from enjoying the stories of people who do.

#disney #descendants #headcanon

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himitsusentaiblog · 7 years

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(Going forward with the understanding that miniseries like Kamen Rider 4 and Gorider count as movies) What are your favorite Kamen Rider movies? Can be a top ten, top five or general format.

As I am still riding the high from finishing Kamen Sentai Gorider (OMG SO GOOD SO GOOD) I won’t include it because that’s like asking someone what their favorite Star Wars movie is right after they get out of the newest one (for the record it’s still Empire Strikes Back for me though Rogue One is now second). I wonder how much better Gorider will be once I’ve seen the movie it ties into. I’ve been waiting for a proper Super Hero Taisen that wasn’t just a Kamen Rider movie with a glorified Super Sentai cameo since Super Hero Taisen Z.

Anyway, as to my favorite Kamen Rider movies, I am going to include both Heisei and Showa movies here and that weird in-between period that still gets lumped in with Showa because Shotaro Ishinomori was still alive for them. Let’s get started, shall we?

5. Kamen Rider 555: Paradise Lost

This is a weird one for me. I was not a fan of the strange, out of continuity early Heisei Kamen Rider movies. I felt they went places they shouldn’t or were utterly irrelevant to the TV series that spawned them. However, I still loved this movie when I first saw it and watch it again every now and then. This film is basically a worst case scenario for the TV show, where the Orphenochs have conquered the world and humanity is dying off and clustered together in tiny enclaves. Kamen Rider Faiz has been missing for years and it falls to the dickish Kamen Rider Kaixa to protect the remaining humans. I just really liked the designs for the two new, movie only Riders (Psyga and Orga) and the action was really well done.

4. Kamen Rider Hibiki and the Seven War Oni

Yes, this movie was made post studio meddling that pretty much doomed a promising, if slow, series to a mediocre and unsatisfying conclusion. However, it’s basically a tokusatsu version of the Seven Samurai! It’s even set in the Edo period and features 7 different Riders (Oni) banding together to defend a small village against a monstrous force no one person could defeat alone. It also features the amazingly designed Kamen Rider Kabuki. That alone score it major points in my book!

3. Let’s Go Kamen Riders!

This was the 40th Anniversary movie and one of the crossover films ostensibly between the then current Kamen Rider OOOs and the few seasons past but still popular Kamen Rider Den-O. It was also the first time they used the now cliched plot of Shocker taking over the world thanks to time manipulation. It’s also the best time that plotline was ever used in my opinion. It’s a fun story though and ends with a huge gathering of every Rider up to that point fighting to restore history to its proper course through the power of kicking and punching evil monsters. It’s a celebration of everything Kamen Rider and for that, I can’t help but love it to death.

2. Kamen Rider vs. Shocker

This is the very first original Kamen Rider movie (the film before this Go Go Kamen Rider was a movie expansion of episode 13). This was the first movie of the original series I ever saw, long before I got my hands on the entire first series. It got me so interested in the old Kamen Rider shows made before I was born and before Super Sentai was even a thing. It was also my introduction to the amazingly evil Dr. Shinigami, one of my all-time favorite Kamen Rider villains. Here is the trailer:

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1. Kamen Rider ZO

This was the first piece of Kamen Rider media I ever got to see in Japanese with English subtitles. I watched it because I was already a fan of its director, Keita Amemiya thanks to his Zeiram films. What ZO did was quite frankly blow my mind. The suit designs were spectacular, the action tense and brutal and the effects work imaginative and engrossing. The high point for me has always been the fight with the Spider Kaijin, the use of stop motion animation and just the completely alien design of the spider-thing sticks with me to this day.

This movie turned me from a pretty straight up Super Sentai fan into a broader fan of tokusatsu and tossed me head first into the awesome world of Kamen Rider. It remains my favorite movie in the franchise and not just for nostalgia reasons. It’s a great first film to show people as it is a one and done tale that combines all of the hallmarks of the franchise in a unique and engaging way.

#Askbox Replies #Kamen Rider #Kamen Rider Movies #Kamen Rider 555: Paradise Lost #Kamen Rider Hibiki and the 7 War Oni #Kamen Rider ZO #Let's Go Kamen Riders #Kamen Rider vs. Shocker

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ladyxanatos · 7 years

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The thing about Rogue One

[Strongly worded R1 crit will be contained in this post. I’m not here to offend, simply to explain my own personal view on matters. If you don’t want to read criticism of R1, please do scroll right past this post]

When R1 was first released, I received messages asking if I would review it. I explained that I wouldn’t be reviewing because at the time I was very upset and unable to keep that out of any review I might write.

But with the film’s release on DVD, some time has passed in which I have had the space to process my problems with it, and now I think I’m ready to frame my criticism in a more level way.

This is the thing with R1:

My problem isn’t even really that the structure of the film is an absolute mess (the first 30 minutes especially are a disaster), or that the main character is uninteresting and can’t hold the center on her own (this is a deadly combo of writer, director, and actress error), or that the cameo frenzy is unnecessary and further clutters up an already confused haphazard piece of story not-quite-telling. It’s not even the massive, glaring continuity errors with ANH, although those do grate a lot.

Because although all these things hold true in my opinion, these aren’t the reasons I left the cinema deeply upset.

So, here’s the thing:

Star Wars is a fairy tale in space. It is about good triumphing over evil. And although the PT purposefully complicates what the narrative defines as evil (“If evil can love then what is evil, if love is what makes you human?”), introduces more grey to the story, and seeks to emotionally compromise the audience re: Anakin’s fall, the moral core of the story being told remains simple and well-defined. Simple doesn’t mean easy here or without room for nuance, but rather straightforward. And even RotS, the darkest of Lucas’ Star Wars films, ends with very clear optimism and “new hope.”

Then there’s Disney’s TFA, which seeks to retcon the hard-earned personal (Skywalker saga) and galactic (Rebellion vs. Empire) redemption at the end of RotJ. It opines that nah, we haven’t fixed anything, and this is all just going to repeat.

I mention this because it’s important framing for my reaction to R1.

Thus, we finally arrive at my grievance with R1.

R1 paints the Rebellion, our supposed heroes, in distinctly, purposefully morally grey shades. It has Cassian murder a man at the top of the film (shooting him in the back no less. And no, this is not comparable to Han Solo’s arc in the OT, but teasing that apart needs its own post), has the top brace opting for lethal force where it’s unnecessary, shows the Alliance leaders as uselessly gridlocked (reminding me of the Senate in the PT but not in a way I like; in that TFA ‘everything is just repeating and hopeless’ way), and although Saw is “estranged” from the “official” Rebel Alliance it makes us watch him torture a man in a fit of paranoia. (Don’t get me going on how this film treats Saw, we would be here all day)

R1 opines that, sure, the Empire is bad, but look at the Rebellion, they’ve really let their morals go in their zeal to save the galaxy, huh? R1 asks us and the galaxy to choose the “lesser of two evils,” while TFA offers judgment on that choice by saying this is all pointless and doomed to repeat anyway.

The combination of R1 and TFA’s impacts on this universe retroactively attempt to render the GFFA grimdark and bleak. I don’t know that Disney owned Lucasfilm actually sat down and decided to do that consciously. It kind of feels like they may have honestly not realized what they did there and didn’t think the implications of certain story telling choices all the way through.

But regardless of whether this tonal shift has been intentional or not, the result, for me as a viewer, is that the story I’ve loved for more than 20 years is gone. It has been turned into something counter to what I strongly feel SW was intended to be.

I didn’t sign up for grimdark gritty “realism” (I use that with heavy sarcasm) in space when I became a fan of Star Wars at the age of six. I signed up for a fun, swashbuckling, colorful, hopeful, optimistic space opera, with room for darker tones, yes, and with allowance for the exploration of deeper themes, but at the end of the day I signed up for optimistic escapism for a few hours. I didn’t sign up for grimdark.

I don’t resent anyone who enjoys TFA and R1, to each their own. But for myself, the direction Disney is taking with the franchise is disconcerting and is making it difficult for me to keep calling myself a fan. And that’s heartbreaking for me.

So...that’s the thing about R1.

#rogue one #star wars movies #r1 crit #anti r1 #tfa crit #anti tfa #murder tw //#torture tw //

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evanhunerberg · 4 years

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10 deep-seated beliefs, and how to work with them

Preamble ramble: what are deep-seated beliefs?

Deep-seated beliefs are constantly guiding us. We make most decisions and judgements automatically, instinctively, without “thinking.” (Daniel Kahneman calls it System 1 Thinking). Obviously, this impacts our interest in brand and product communications. We reject without thinking. Or we jump on board impulsively. These are, in some ways, “subconscious” events.

Our life experiences etch deep, unspoken beliefs into our minds, and many of these experiences depend on the wider culture we grow up in. A person raised in Minnesota suburbs will have different experiences and beliefs about the world than someone who grew up in Karachi. Focusing on an individual’s experience is important for providing therapy, but in communications we’re trying to reach many people. We need to zoom out and widen our net … but not too far. The more we zoom out, the the more bland, uninteresting, and useless the beliefs become for building communications.

Ideally, you should be thinking about a defined audience as distinct culture. Understand them as a Nation of people, with their own shared customs, beliefs and rituals (which they might not even be aware of). This requires specific, dedicated research. For this article, we’ll be zooming all the way out to the “Western” beliefs that form the foundations for a lot of perception and decisions among people who grew up in North America, Europe, and Australia. You can see them at work in everything from court decisions to Disney movies to hiring decisions, and of course, how people choose to spend their money.

What you’ll find in here

10 cultural beliefs drawn from The Masks of God, Europe: A Cultural History, From Olympus to Camelot, and a bit from my own reading of Grimm’s Fairy Tales. I’ll quickly describe the roots of each belief, with a thought for addressing it.

Putting deep-seated beliefs to use

You can lean into them, or you can challenge them. You just can’t ignore them. You can adapt your story to the contours of these beliefs and use them to frame your brand and product. Or, you can attack them head-on with simple, brutal, and concrete logic. Stupidly simple attacks can make for really arresting advertising. Some of them conflict, so you can even wield them against each other. Just don’t resist or ignore these beliefs silently. If you don’t adapt to them or actively dismantle them, your communications will lack intuitive credibility. You’ll be pushing meaningless non-starters.

(Disclaimer

Most beliefs are invisible tools of Power. Many of these beliefs evolved as mechanisms for elite control, and they have oppressed many people. I’m definitely not supporting any of them. I am bringing their existence into the open, and I hope I can help you reconfigure them for better uses.)

10 deep-seated Western beliefs

Good deeds will always come back to you Roots Ever since our reliance on the cycles of the sun for agriculture, we’ve believed in a cosmic order and balance. Around 3000 years ago, we also started working morality into the picture. Recommendation If you’re pushing for behavioral change (especially an uncomfortable one), remind people that their actions are part of a bigger interconnected web.

There is a clear line dividing Good from Bad Roots The metaphysical division started in Persia and became a key component of Christianity. It’s been fading since the Scientific Revolution, but it’s hard to shake. It still shows up through our villains and heroes, and it’s exacerbating 2020s political disagreements. Recommendation In 2020, this trope is a little too prominent. You’ll probably have more success attacking this idea, reminding people about the gray areas, and snapping people out of tribal allegiances.

We all get to choose between doing the right thing and the wrong thing Roots According to ancient religions and a lot of Christianity, the cosmic war of Good vs Evil plays out in our daily lives. We participate everyday, and we all choose how to participate. This is the angel and the devil on your shoulders. Recommendation Provoke action in your audience by challenging them to take a clear position. A meaningful decision urges us to do something about it.

If you listen to your heart, you’ll make the right choice Roots As Roman and Catholic bureaucracy lost it’s grip over Europe, ethics and salvation became a more private activity—to understand what was right, you only had to look within. Half a millennium later, Anne Frank would write “I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.” Recommendation If you’re asking for altruism, dissociate from any of the surface-level politics that might be in play, and urge your audience to follow their deepest values. They’ll probably have trouble recognizing anything but love and selflessness.

You have to forge your own path Roots As the scientific method started showing us how the world works, it became harder and harder to find our purpose written in the stars. As early as the Enlightenment, we started looking inside ourselves for meaning. We started living our own original adventures. Recommendation Sometimes we need to break our audience away from the herd. Consider if your cause can impel and help someone to live their own truth.

Wherever someone is, they deserve to be there Roots Ruling classes have always maintained that the socioeconomic order reflects a cosmic order. Everyone is where they “should” be, so don’t try to change things. Even now, too many people cling to the idea that someone’s status is an appropriate reflection of their own actions and innate abilities. Recommendation If life is good for you, it’s easy to justify that you deserve it that way. But (in America) our faith in “opportunity” makes it difficult to believe that someone (especially a child) deserves hardship. In your communications, it will probably be easier to argue certain people haven’t had a “fair” shot—especially if you represent that community with an individual person.

To the victor go the spoils Roots A cornerstone of Western fiction, The Iliad, starts with an argument between two “heroes” who are angry about giving up women they took as civilian POW sex slaves(!) And even today, when we walk past mansion estates and luxury cars, we carry a sense that the winners of society are entitled to whatever they can legally capture. Recommendation World-renowned luxury brands make their patrons feel like queens and kings, and it works. To challenge this belief effectively, frame the “victor” as someone much different than the audience.

Power corrupts Roots The late Roman emperors are good symbols for this idea (think Caligula and Nero). The New Testament infuses King Herod with this notion, and we imagine it happening during the height of the French aristocracy too. Recommendation We often envision corruption, decadence, and depravity together alongside tyranny. They’re indicators of leadership that’s fallen out of balance and decayed into something sinister. If you’re battling an entrenched status quo, consider linking some of their personal behaviors to their policies.

Nature needs to be chained down Roots Early farmers had a harmonious relationship with nature, but waves of horse-riding invaders had a different view. They saw nature as an unruly beast to wrestle under control. They put women in the same category, and we’re still dealing with the many effects of this worldview. Recommendation Government regulations can seem unnecessary and meddling. But, the same thing might feel more comforting as a leash on unchecked, untamed behaviors. Instead of framing it as a safety device or a punishment, you could discuss regulation as a harness for a dangerous wild force.

Nature is pure Roots Bronze Age (~3000 BC) and Abrahamic religions characterized the natural world as corrupt and unclean in contrast to God’s abstract perfection. But, nature worship persisted anyway for figures like the goat-legged Pan and the god Dionysus. And then, with the scientific method excusing all kinds of heresy, and industrialization pulling people away from their fields, Westerners developed a special appreciation for the purity and balance of nature. Recommendation This idea contributes a lot of the undertones in environmentalism, but there are many people who don’t identify with that whole package. It might be easier to drum up interest in preservation. America has a long and distinct tradition of preserving pure, wild, pristine land. While some people might not care about saving a far-off exotic animal, we might solicit a lot more care for the spaces in the National Parks that feel sacred.

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2018 Fic Retrospective

I’m still doing the thing where, for word count, I calculate word count both from fics written and pieces of meta over 500 words written. Because I did spend a fair amount of time on those meta, and in certain cases, they were the only thing I wrote that day.

Total Number of Completed Stories: 51, and all of them were published to my AO3 this time. 49 of them are finished, while 2 are WIPs, and of the 2 WIPs, you should only look to see one of them finished.

Total Word Count:

For fic: 250,598 words For meta: 105,626 words over 88 meta posts Total: 356,224 words

Fandoms Written In: Star Wars, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars: KOTOR II, La Belle et La Bête (2014 film), Beauty and the Beast (Fairy Tale), The Silmarillion, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008), Star Wars: Leia Princess of Alderaan, Star vs. The Forces of Evil, Gotham (Fox), The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth, Herbert West: Reanimator, Chronicles of Narnia, The Children of Húrin, DuckTales (2017), The Magnus Archives, Adventure Time, Within the Wires

Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you’d predicted? More. I set a yearly word goal for myself of 180,000 words (360 days ÷ 500 words), and 250,598 for fic far exceeds that. I wrote a lot (relatively speaking) of 10k+ oneshots this year, and that likely had something to do with it.

What’s your own favorite story of the year?

As usual, I’m doing a top 5 instead of just picking one. These are in no particular order:

1. In Courts of Living Stone: Of course, writing for the Silm crackotp was fun, but there were a lot of other things about this that made it so satisfying to write. Making Menegroth a beautiful and hair-raising Eldritch Location and Melian unsettling (not sinister, just deeply unsettling) were a bit part of it.

2. Is It Gremlins?: I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: There are a weirdly high number of parallels between Sabine and Kallus’s characters, considered they’ve had direct, one-on-one interaction with each other all of once over the course of the series. And there was no fic exploring the potential dynamic they’d have once Kallus defected to the good guys, so I wrote that fic. And it came out… good.

3. No Words Can Express: I actually didn’t expect Roswitha to take off in my head as much as she did; she was originally a less-high strung, more put-together woman, but she was less interesting that way. Sabine originally had more of a presence in the fic than she did. I can’t remember, but I think one of my earliest ideas for the fic might have been to have it from Sabine’s POV instead of Roswitha’s. That would have also been less interesting than the end result.

4. Perilous to Mortals: No one ever explained what happened to the Lesser Rings. Ever. Why not? Well, I did explain (What happened to one of them).

5. A Vicious and Voracious Hunger: Mary Keay was fun to write.

Did you take any writing risks this year? Asides from the typical, low-stakes risks of writing fics for pool noodle ships, fics in tiny fandoms, fics with OCs as the POV character, where the only real stakes present are the possibilities that the fic will just get no exposure? Eh. I am currently writing a novel-length retelling of Beauty and the Beast, so I suppose there’s always the risk that I might not finish it, but right now I’m feeling pretty motivated to finish it.

Do you have any fanfic or ofic goals for the New Year? Finish Face to Face is the first big one. Beyond that, I want 2019 to be the year I well and truly give no fucks and write whatever my heart bids me, no matter how niche, no matter how pool noodle-ish the ship. Even if I am really and truly the one person who has ever had a desire to read a certain fic, I will put it out into the world so that at least I can read it. (Getting into smaller fandoms means having to live with less exposure, anyways.)

My best story of this year: I’m gonna do the same as last year, and pick a fic I liked that didn’t go into my favorite Top 5, since it’s hard to really say which one is undeniably, objectively the best. And the one I’m going with is Bitter Work, aka the one where Maedhros starts to learn how to write with his left hand. I thought it hit the beats it needed to, and that Maedhros and Aredhel’s dynamic carried the story well.

My most popular story of this year: If we’re going by hits, it’s Time to be Spontaneous with 685 hits, and I suspect that’s down more to it being a popular ship like Bubbline than indicative of the quality of the fic, because I consider this one, while okay, not really my best work. It was my first foray into a fandom whose diction I don’t have the strongest grasp of. By kudos and bookmarks, that’s O Heart of Light with 68 kudos and 10 bookmarks (only 5 of which are public) respectively, and this one is more like right, because I do think this was a good fic.

Story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe: It’s probably not fair to stick one of the ones from a small fandom in here, because they’re going to get less exposure as a rule. With that, I think Tacenda definitely counts. I don’t know if it’s just that people don’t want to read fics where Mical is one of the main characters, but I’d thought this one would get more attention than it did.

Most fun story to write: That’s a tie between In Courts of Living Stone, A Vicious and Voracious Hunter, Perilous to Mortals, and Watcher Of/In the Woods.

Story with the single sexiest moment: Who do you think I am?

Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: Results May Vary ended in me thinking that a certain someone is less of a blithe mad scientist than he appears at first glance.

Hardest story to write: Do as the Romans Do gave me rather more trouble than I’d thought it would.

Biggest Disappointment: The Disordered Mind of Doubt wound up being rather less than I’d hoped it would be.

Biggest Surprise: I really didn’t expect Honne to break the 20k mark. Really didn’t expect that.

#Fic retrospective #Fanfic #Writing #ncfan's writing process

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Weekend PC Download Deals for June 8: Pre-E3 2018 Edition

For those who haven't heard, E3 2018 is next week. Shocking, I know, because I don't think anybody's mentioned it lately. But with that in mind, gaming retailers are looking to jump into either E3 sales or summer sales to take advantage of the annual gaming hype week.

Well, almost everyone, anyway. Steam is staying conspicuously low-key, with few sales this weekend. That's likely because that storefront is getting ready for its usual Summer Sale madness that normally kicks off later in June. So who's having the big sales in the meantime? GOG.com is leading the pack with its #SummerGaming sale, with Amazon, GamersGate, Origin, and the Ubisoft Store all trailing behind them. There are some good deals to be found on both recent hits and classics.

But also be sure to keep an eye on Green Man Gaming, which has Vampyr, the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection, and other recent (as in, released in the last month) hits discounted right now.

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Here's our selection of this weekend's PC deals:

Amazon

Star Wars Battlefront II [Origin] - $19.99 (60% off)

Battlefield 1 Revolution [Origin] - $14.99 (75% off)

The Sims 4 [Origin] - $9.99 (75% off)

Need for Speed Payback [Origin] - $19.99 (60% off)

Mirror's Edge Catalyst [Origin] - $4.99 (50% off)

Dragon Age Inquisition GOTY Edition [Origin] - $15.99 (60% off)

Mass Effect Trilogy [Origin] - $7.49 (75% off)

Crysis Trilogy [Origin] - $12.49 (75% off)

SimCity Complete Edition [Origin] - $7.49 (75% off)

Alice: Madness Returns [Origin] - $4.99 (75% off)

Fe [Origin] - $9.99 (50% off)

Dead Space 3 [Origin] - $9.99 (50% off)

Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition [Steam] - $4.99 (80% off)

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 [Steam] - $9.99 (50% off)

Direct2Drive

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus [Steam] - $29.99 (50% off)

Wolfenstein II: The Freedom Chronicles Season Pass [Steam] - $14.99 (40% off)

Wolfenstein: The New Order [Steam] - $9.99 (50% off)

Wolfenstein: The Old Blood [Steam] - $9.99 (50% off)

Return to Castle Wolfenstein [Steam] - $1.25 (75% off)

Fanatical

Pay $1.99 for Chroma Squad, Skullgirls, Deadlight, Mad Games Tycoon, Replica, The Way, Wick, 12 is Better Than 6 Game, The Uncertain: Episode 1 - The Last Quiet Day, and Infectonator: Survivors. These activate on Steam.

Or pay $1 (!) for Anomaly: Warzone Earth, Anomaly Defenders, and Anomaly 2. These activate on Steam.

Or pay $4.99 for F.E.A.R. (w/all DLC), F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin, F.E.A.R. 2: Reborn DLC, and F.E.A.R. 3. These activate on Steam.

Or pay $13.59 for Batman: Arkham Knight and all of its DLC. These activate on Steam.

Grand Theft Auto [Rockstar] - $18.59 (69% off)

Bayonetta + Vanquish [Steam] - $13.99 (65% off)

Bayonetta [Steam] - $7.99 (60% off)

Vanquish [Steam] - $7.99 (60% off)

Batman: Arkham VR [Steam] - $9.99 (50% off)

Injustice 2: Legendary Edition [Steam] - $41.99 (30% off)

Middle-earth: Shadow of War [Steam] - $35.99 (40% off)

Mad Max [Steam] - $4.99 (75% off)

Ori and the Blind Forest Definitive Edition [Steam] - $9.99 (50% off)

State of Decay: Year One Survival Edition [Steam] - $7.49 (75% off)

Quantum Break [Steam] - $19.99 (50% off)

Darksiders Franchise Pack [Steam] - $9.99 (80% off)

Red Faction Collection [Steam] - $11.99 (80% off)

Painkiller Complete Pack [Steam] - $13.99 (80% off)

Alan Wake's American Nightmare [Steam] - $2.49 (75% off)

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GamersGate

Dragon Ball FighterZ [Steam] - $41.99 (30% off)

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard [Steam] - $20.99 (30% off)

Grand Theft Auto V [Rockstar] - $19.80 (67% off)

Ori and the Blind Forest [Steam] - $9.99 (50% off)

Conan Exiles [Steam] - $33.99 (15% off)

Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition [Steam] - $29.99 (25% off)

Tekken 7 [Steam] - $25.00 (50% off)

BioShock: The Collection [Steam] - $19.80 (67% off)

Quantum Break [Steam] - $20.00 (50% off)

Dead Rising 4 [Steam] - $22.49 (25% off)

Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 [Steam] - $14.99 (25% off)

Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition [Steam] - $10.00 (60% off)

Devil May Cry HD Collection [Steam] - $20.09 (33% off)

Kerbal Space Program [Steam] - $20.00 (50% off)

L.A. Noire: The Complete Edition [Steam] - $9.00 (70% off)

Okami HD [Steam] - $11.99 (40% off)

GamersGate is in the middle of its Summer Sale! Check out all of the games featured during the GamersGate Summer Sale.

GOG.com

Spend $5 or more during the GOG.com Summer Sale and receive Sunless Sea for free. Spend $20 or more and also receive Rime for free.

GOG.com has kicked off its #SummerGaming sale. That means over 1,000 games are on sale! Shacknews has bundled together some of the best individual game deals, as well as noteworthy bundles. Find all of the sales on GOG.com.

Divinity: Original Sin 2 - $35.99 (20% off)

Saints Row Bundle (Saints Row 2 + Saints Row IV: Game of the Century Edition + Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell w/Devil's Workshop Pack + Saints Row: The Third The Full Package) - $12.35 (80% off)

Baldur's Gate Bundle (Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition + Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition + Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear) - $11.97 (80% off)

Star Wars Starship Bundle (Rogue Squadron 3D + TIE Fighter Special Edition + X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter + X-Wing Alliance + X-Wing Special Edition) - $12.45 (75% off)

Indiana Jones Bundle (Emperor's Tomb + Fate of Atlantis + The Last Crusade + LEGO Indiana Jones + LEGO Indiana Jones 2) - $14.45 (75% off)

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice - $20.09 (33% off)

Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition - $9.99 (50% off)

Kerbal Space Program - $19.99 (50% off)

Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines - $4.99 (75% off)

Mirror's Edge - $2.99 (85% off)

Fallout New Vegas Ultimate Edition - $9.99 (50% off)

Fallout 3 GOTY Edition - $9.99 (50% off)

Firewatch - $7.99 (60% off)

The Witness - $15.99 (60% off)

Darkest Dungeon - $9.99 (60% off)

Neverwinter Nights 2 Complete Edition - $9.99 (50% off)

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Green Man Gaming

Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection [Steam] - $29.99 (25% off)

Vampyr [Steam] - $37.49 (25% off)

Moonlighter [Steam] - $15.99 (20% off)

Conan Exiles [Steam] - $31.19 (22% off)

Final Fantasy XV [Steam] - $39.99 (20% off)

Grand Theft Auto V [Rockstar] - $17.82 (70% off)

Grand Theft Auto IV Complete Edition [Steam] - $7.65 (74% off)

Grand Theft Auto III Trilogy [Steam] - $7.65 (74% off)

Rocket League [Steam] - $10.99 (45% off)

XCOM 2 [Steam] - $15.05 (75% off)

XCOM 2: War of the Chosen [Steam] - $23.99 (40% off)

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Humble Bundle

Subscribe to Humble Monthly for $12 and receive Hearts of Iron IV, Blackwake, and Portal Knights, with more games added every month. These games activate on Steam.

Pay $1 or more to get Arma: Cold War Assault, Arma: Gold Edition, and Arma Tactics. Pay $15 or more to also receive Arma 3, Arma 3 Karts, Arma 3 Helicopters, and Arma 3 Marksmen. Pay more than the average $17.80 to get Arma 2, Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead, Arma 2: British Armed Forces, Arma 2: Private Military Company, and Arma 2: Army of the Czech Republic. Pay $20 or more to also receive Arma 3 Apex. These activate on Steam.

Or pay what you want for Memoria, Caravan, Deponia: The Complete Journey, and Anna's Quest. Pay more than the average $8.05 to get Witch It, Silence, and Deponia Doomsday. Pay $12 or more to also receive Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, The Long Journey Home, and Bounty Train.

Destiny 2 Expansion Pass [Steam] - $19.99 (43% off)

The Crew Ultimate Edition [UPlay] - $12.49 (75% off)

Shadow Warrior 2 [Steam] - $19.99 (50% off)

Enter the Gungeon [Steam] - $7.49 (50% off)

The Talos Principle [Steam] - $7.99 (80% off)

Brofoce [Steam] - $3.74 (75% off)

Find more Devolver Digital games, like the Hotline Miami games and Genital Jousting, on sale during the Humble Store's Devolver Digital Sale.

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Oculus Store

Sprint Vector: VR League - $19.99 (33% off)

Origin

Peggle - Free!

Star Wars Battlefront II - $19.99 (67% off)

Battlefield 1 Revolution - $14.99 (75% off)

The Sims 4 - $9.99 (75% off)

FIFA 18 - $19.99 (67% off)

Titanfall 2 - $4.99 (75% off)

Need for Speed Payback - $19.99 (50% off)

Mass Effect Andromeda - $9.99 (50% off)

Fe - $9.99 (50% off)

Mass Effect Trilogy - $7.49 (75% off)

Dragon Age Inquisition - $4.99 (75% off)

Crysis Trilogy - $12.49 (75% off)

Titanfall 2 Ultimate Edition - $9.99 (67% off)

Mirror's Edge Catalyst - $4.99 (50% off)

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 - $9.99 (50% off)

Find more of EA's best games on sale during the Origin Infinite Gaming Sale.

Ubisoft Store

Far Cry 5 - $44.99 (25% off)

Assassin's Creed Origins - $29.99 (50% off)

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege - $19.99 (50% off)

South Park: The Fractured but Whole - $19.80 (67% off)

For Honor - $14.99 (75% off)

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands - $19.80 (67% off)

Tom Clancy's The Division - $10.00 (80% off)

Watch Dogs 2 - $19.80 (67% off)

Rayman Legends - $10.20 (66% off)

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Collection - $26.09 (71% off)

Star Trek Bridge Crew - $19.99 (50% off)

Prince of Persia (2008) - $3.40 (66% off)

Child of Light - $5.10 (66% off)

Uno - $3.40 (66% off)

Monopoly Plus - $7.49 (50% off)

Find more of Ubisoft's catalog during the Ubisoft Store's E3 Sale.

Steam

As well as regular discounts, Steam has a couple of additional weekend deals.

Subnautica - $19.99 (20% off)

Tooth and Tail - $8.99 (55% off) (FREE WEEKEND until 6/10 at 1PM PT)

Forts - $8.99 (40% off) (FREE MULTIPLAYER WEEKEND until 6/10 at 1PM PT)

Hunt Showdown [Steam Early Access] - $23.99 (20% off)

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun - $19.99 (50% off)

Insurgency - $2.49 (75% off)

Dying Light - $15.99 (60% off)

Insurgency - $2.49 (75% off)

Sairento VR - $23.99 (20% off)

The Mage's Tale - $19.99 (33% off)

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