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Talon aus are just DC-flavored Winter Soldier aus

#Cockatoo.txt #am I *wrong*? #it even has the freezing! #anyway I’ve been reading a ton of Talon!Dick aus the past week #I’m having fun :D #even if like only two fics have been the Exact Vibe I’m looking for #the others are still enjoyable

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Does anyone actually like the Joker as a character these days? Like, are you excited when he shows up, and would absolutely riot if he was killed off for good? Because I don’t know about yall but I am absolutely tired of this guy

#Cockatoo.txt #literally the only time I’m happy to see him #Is when he’s voiced by Mark Hamill #Bc mark hamill joker is a *delight* always #any other time I’m like get this fucker out of here give me some *interesting* villains

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DC needs to chill and just let Nightwing be the fun, cartoony, quippy one, instead of utterly ruining his life every five minutes and trying to make him more angsty and conflicted than Batman

Does anyone actually want all that gritty, depressing, morally dark gray shit from Nightwing comics anyway? I sure don’t! Stop doing this shit, DC!

#Cockatoo.txt #I am not remotely up to date on comics #I’ve just Heard Shit and I’m annoyed about it #maybe I would be caught up on comics if DC stopped trying to character assassinate all my favs

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Am I seriously getting dragged back into batfam on the 10 year anniversary of my getting dragged into batfam the first time?

#Cockatoo.txt #idk the exact date but it was definitely mid 2013 the first time #and here I am again #I’m not done with star wars tho! #and I have yet to successfully have two special interests simultaneously

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I can’t get Phantom Hourglass controls to cooperate with me, h e l p

#Cockatoo.txt #zelda phantom hourglass #literally listening to a podcast right now #claiming that the ds zelda games were designed for the casual ds market #and here I am a fool who cannot get to grips with it #I got this game bc I wanted touch screen controls but the combat feels so awkward!! #and I can only get Link to roll maybe 1/10 tries #walking around is fine I’m used to that in pkmn ranger #but the transition from walking to sword swinging feels bad and imprecise #I feel like I’m doing something wrong

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me whenever I see posts about how canon is shit and can be discarded

#Memes #I mean I’m friggen trying! #Why would I write something everyone else has already written dozens of times #when I could instead write something Completely Bonkers #just Absolutely Wild #(That still like makes sense in context and only excludes canon details as necessary)

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Still kinda sad we didn’t get playable Linkle or Kass in hwaoc

#Cockatoo.txt #hwaoc #age of calamity #does it make any sense for them to be here? No #do I care? Also no #Also would have liked playable Astor #bc we got playable Cia/Volga/Wizzro in the last one #But I really wanted Kass and Linkle #like have Kass come back with the future champions because someone needs to record all this in song #and have Linkle bc *Linkle*

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"i'll remember the exact phrasing of the paragraph i just thought of for my fic when i get to my computer later, i don't need to write it down or put it in my notes app" this is the devil speaking

#Writing #even when I do pull out my notes immediately most of the time the wording is already gone T-T

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Something that still bothers me about lego skysaga is that sith/darksiders don’t have any unique abilities to set them apart from Jedi. Playing as Vader is mechanically the same as playing as Obi-wan, Vader just has a red outline on Force-able things instead of blue. Which is totally lame! The original saga and the clone wars lego games both had dark side exclusive force-able objects to hide secrets in levels, encouraging you to come back in free play after unlocking a darkside user, but skysaga has nothing. There’s no mechanical reason to play as a sith instead of a jedi.

Extra weird because there’s even a Jedi ability that would make way more sense as a sith exclusive, the ‘influence’ ability. Being able to completely take over someone’s mind and have them walk around like a zombie is not something a Jedi would do, but is definitely something a Sith would do.

I would fix this by renaming the Sith prompt to ‘control’, and having the Jedi ‘influence’ be very context dependent. Iirc the only time a Jedi uses influence in a story mode is Obi-wan getting the stormtroopers to open the gate in A New Hope, so in that context using ‘influence’ would just have the guard open the gate instead of controlling him to use the villain terminal. I’d add a few more spots in the open world where ‘influence’ would work to open doors and such, but most of the time it wouldn’t do anything.

#Cockatoo.txt #lego star wars skywalker saga #give me a reason to use sith! #bc otherwise I absolutely will just play the entire game as Ahsoka

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Found a weird minor bug in hyrule warriors definitive the other day. While fighting phantom ganon in a great sea map stage, he summoned an energy ball to throw at me, but when he threw it it flew backwards?? Behind him and up, as if still following the trajectory line down to me, just away, and it just flew off into the sky. Bye, magic orb

#Cockatoo.txt #hwde #I should have grabbed a video but I was just so startled I didn’t think about it #ah well

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Why is the rexwalker tag specifically full of porn bot spam?? Why is rexwalker on the tag list for this shit?? And why is tumblr so bad at doing anything about it???

#Cockatoo.txt #staff p l s #my main blog notifs are nothing but porn bot follows #they all have a very distinctive pattern it should not be this hard

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If I could just silent protagonist my way through life, that’d be amazing actually

#Cockatoo.txt #I’ve been reading a lot of loz fics with mute/selectively mute Link #and I love when other characters watch him go through life accomplishing what he needs to without a single word #God I wish that were me #I’m not selectively mute I’m just selectively stupid #I open my mouth and I make a fool of myself rip

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The most annoying thing about hyrule warriors 1/definitive edition is that all online guides use a different numbering system for the adventure mode maps

some have letters on the x axis and numbers on the y axis, some have the opposite, some use numbers for both, some count from the bottom, some count from the top, some count from the starting space (which is the middle of the bottom row for some but not all), and it makes it impossible to find a guide for a specific stage because if you search like “hwde adventure map B6” you’re gonna get guides for twelve different stages! Why is it so hard to standardize this? Better question is why the devs didn’t label each axis in game so we could avoid this problem entirely

#Cockatoo.txt #just use excel numbering p l e a s e #top left starting position letters on the x axis numbers on the y #I know its not the most efficient for a grid wider than it is tall #but it is a system most people are familiar with #and that counts for a lot #anyway I’m struggling with the great sea map in the definitive edition #anybody got guides for the stages to get Ruto and Volga’s lv 2 weapons?

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I’d like it even more if I could level them up and improve them just like the playable warriors, as another bit of progression to make battles easier. And a way to command them too, instead them them just doing whatever while I run around as frantic damage control. Like, am I a Commander or not? Why can’t I actually command my troops?

A mod for Hyrule Warriors DE that makes allied captains just marginally more durable than wet tissue paper would be great, actually

#Cockatoo.txt #I don’t play Warriors games lol #just hyrule warriors 1 & 2 #so maybe they tried this in a dynasty warriors and everyone hated it idk #I just want to feel like I have a little more control over the battlefield yknow? #So my wet tissue paper soldiers aren’t running off into enemy territory before I’m ready #Also also let me choose who my allied forces *are* in adventure mode #instead of being stuck with hylian soldiers 90% of the time

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A mod for Hyrule Warriors DE that makes allied captains just marginally more durable than wet tissue paper would be great, actually

#Cockatoo txt #hyrule warriors definitive edition #hwde #the amount of times I’m told a Hylian Captain is in danger #only for them to die before I can even *react* let alone cross the entire map to save their useless ass #good lord #I really freaking hate their distressed wailing when they’re forced to retreat #I have to hear it so often because these soldiers are so pathetic #half the time there’s not even an enemy captain nearby! #they’re killed by the *cannon fodder*

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A word of advice to video game designers: whatever your enemy loot drop rates are, just double it. Because I guarantee they’re too low right now.

Unrewarding loot grinding sucks, no one likes killing 50 of an enemy type and only getting 3 drops, especially if that drop is a crafting material that they need 50 of.

#Cockatoo.txt #video games #game design #the last dozen games I’ve played have this problem and its really annoying #looking at *you* hyrule-warriors #and you fantasy-life #bot-w is also bad about this but only with ancient cores #most everything else is just about killing the right rank of enemy to get the rarer drops #I’m so sick of killing redeads in hw and none of them ever dropping their silver mats #and fucking argorok and his fucking ashes #Like at least three maybe four warriors need argorok ashes for all of their silver badges and the stupid dragon only ever drops weapons #Oh terr-aria is also Terrible about this #but at least with that game killing a fuckton of one enemy type can usually be done fairy quickly

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Banishing the sequels to the fucking shadow realm should be an accessibility option in lego skysaga

#Cockatoo.txt #I hate the sequels and everything they stand for #why do I have to play through them for 100% #Get them out of my sight #I just realized this might come across as disparaging towards the accessibility options #make no mistake I L O V E the accessibility options #I use a lot of them #bless Tt for that #I especially love the option to just hold down a button instead of rapid tapping bc I hate rapid tapping and it hurts my thumb #Also to be clear #I hate the soulless corporate bs of the sequels #I’m not some dudebro whining about women and minorities invading my sacred scifi #but I’m also not impressed with the mouse’s very safe bare minimum inclusivity