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I knew these bitches were loaded. That's a fucking POPPY DADA in their REC ROOM

(Wow the CALLBACKS in this game!!!)

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Did you meet the new girl? Yeah the one from France who showed up during winter break for some reason. Yeah the one who didn't bring clothes but brought a picture of her friends. Yeah she took like ten minutes to take my picture, I had to ask her what she was doing. Yeah, she kept shooting the puck into her own goal in air hockey. Yeah apparently she climbed a tree after a squirrel in the middle of the night --

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Only a limited run of physical copies for KEY.

Really bummed, this is definitely a fandom of physical media enthusiasts

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the cast of mystery of the seven keys

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YA'LL FATIMA HANGS UP THE PURCELL PHOTO I NEVER NOTICED THAT THAT IS SO CUTE THOUGH

#you can actually hear her hanging it up when you sort taffy

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Given the frequency of airlines losing her luggage, Nancy probably goes for quantity to ensure her best shot at having clothing. Her dad is a lawyer, she can afford it.

So Dave's Ass aside-- is that ALL Nancy's luggage? ??? ? ? ?

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Brigitte with her eyes so bright

Looks toward heaven at midnight

On the longest night of year

That’s the one she holds most dear

“Starry friends,” she’s often heard to say

“How I wish that I could make you stay”

She knows though they can’t remain

Time will bring them round again

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Playing DAN and HAU next to each other is a great example of HER placing a game in a foreign country and then having a cast from everywhere else. We don’t see this in CUR, SAW, or CAP and it is also mixed with VEN, ICE, SPY, LIE, and TMB. I understand that in a global society there will be people from all around the world in a given spot but I feel in HAU specifically it is a slap in the face to the Irish to have a British cast. 

Others have spoken about the dismissive attitude towards the very valid concerns the Irish would have with the English. Kyler herself displays a common attitude of the English educated in not knowing of the atrocities the English enacted on the Irish. Donal is a presented as overly hating the English with no perceivable reason - so he seems unreasonable when anyone who knows about Irish history would know he is perfectly within his rights. 

He absolutely would have been an adult during the Troubles, and is at most a single generation removed from Irish independence. We do not know what he did or who he lost, but we know that he watched others be killed over these issues. All of those in the story were alive for the Good Friday agreement - which turns 25 next month. 

Another hit is the near complete lack of Irish in the story. We have some names sure, and Ogham runes, but the Irish language is beautiful and there has been so much work put into preserving it. It survived years of illegality and of people being outright murdered for speaking it. We know HER can integrate language, and they have in so many other games. Irish should be a part of this. (Also all signage should be in Irish and English because while there are two languages Irish should technically receive priority.) 

The Irish Diaspora is huge, mostly because of specific steps that were taken by the English to exterminate Irish language, people, and culture and replace it with their own. Irish potato famine you say? Yeah, we can blame the English for how bad that was. We can blame the English in general for the shift to farming the land rather than being more pasture based. 

Ireland has been essentially at peace for most millennial lives (and typically Ireland tries to stay out of outside wars - which is why the “military type” comment at the end of HAU seemed out of place) but as we have seen this past year a match could still set everything off. My dad, who has competed professionally in fishing, recalls not being able to fish in the waterways growing up because the English prohibited it. One of my grans ran a B&B where she educated English guests on what had been done to the Irish. Irish history is rarely taught properly (that is to say, with the Irish perspective in mind) outside of Ireland, which is a true shame. 

#yes #and I do have experience with French culture and it is slightly more accurate than HAU #there are old Irish men who swore off alcohol for the church or something #and you'll find them in the pubs #the normal ones #with all the other people

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Playing DAN and HAU next to each other is a great example of HER placing a game in a foreign country and then having a cast from everywhere else. We don’t see this in CUR, SAW, or CAP and it is also mixed with VEN, ICE, SPY, LIE, and TMB. I understand that in a global society there will be people from all around the world in a given spot but I feel in HAU specifically it is a slap in the face to the Irish to have a British cast. 

Others have spoken about the dismissive attitude towards the very valid concerns the Irish would have with the English. Kyler herself displays a common attitude of the English educated in not knowing of the atrocities the English enacted on the Irish. Donal is a presented as overly hating the English with no perceivable reason - so he seems unreasonable when anyone who knows about Irish history would know he is perfectly within his rights. 

He absolutely would have been an adult during the Troubles, and is at most a single generation removed from Irish independence. We do not know what he did or who he lost, but we know that he watched others be killed over these issues. All of those in the story were alive for the Good Friday agreement - which turns 25 next month. 

Another hit is the near complete lack of Irish in the story. We have some names sure, and Ogham runes, but the Irish language is beautiful and there has been so much work put into preserving it. It survived years of illegality and of people being outright murdered for speaking it. We know HER can integrate language, and they have in so many other games. Irish should be a part of this. (Also all signage should be in Irish and English because while there are two languages Irish should technically receive priority.) 

The Irish Diaspora is huge, mostly because of specific steps that were taken by the English to exterminate Irish language, people, and culture and replace it with their own. Irish potato famine you say? Yeah, we can blame the English for how bad that was. We can blame the English in general for the shift to farming the land rather than being more pasture based. 

Ireland has been essentially at peace for most millennial lives (and typically Ireland tries to stay out of outside wars - which is why the “military type” comment at the end of HAU seemed out of place) but as we have seen this past year a match could still set everything off. My dad, who has competed professionally in fishing, recalls not being able to fish in the waterways growing up because the English prohibited it. One of my grans ran a B&B where she educated English guests on what had been done to the Irish. Irish history is rarely taught properly (that is to say, with the Irish perspective in mind) outside of Ireland, which is a true shame. 

#Bringing this back for St. Paddy's Day

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Not me tormenting my Gen Z private school valedictorian candidates by requiring they cite a published book in their papers.

You'd think I'd required them to have a signed first edition. (A Waverly student would get it for me.)

#warnings at waverly academy #this is a dual enrollment class and they have access to multiple libraries #not supposed to be mission impossible #and yet #I even allowed e-books

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IT’s HERE!!! DDI Ambience 😍🙌🐋

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i like the nancy drew games a normal amount

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wow, babe, this sex sure is neat, I guess, but can we get back go why Nancy's mother had to leave behind her family in order to protect the greater good and stop a terrorist attack experiment from destroying the city of Glasgow, and how that doesn't make her a bad mother just because she had a bigger plan with her life, because it wasn't like she was being an irresponsible mother since they always had Carson and Hannah to take care of Nancy but because of society's gender roles around women, especially mothers, she is perceived by some fans as selfish and unloving towards her daughter and husband when in reality, if she hadn't done her job, Nancy would have grown up in a much different and darker world, and that the notion that a woman doing a dangerous job is a selfish thing is inherently misogynistic, and how society at large still sometimes says that a woman's only sign of worth is how and if she is a mother?

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NANCY DREW O6.SECRET OF THE SCARLET HAND.

“dear dad, greetings from the new deputy curator at beech hill museum in washington dc!”

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Joanna's office in Secret of the Scarlet Hand

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I took two classes on witchcraft in college and I was really hoping that knowledge could be put to use in MID. (Where the hell else was it ever going to be useful?) It mostly wasn't. There is so much more that the story could have tackled. (And a few things that I think were overemphasized or presented poorly.)

Much like the Emma Roberts movie I thought a lot of the plot revolved around societal expectations of a slightly different time/place from where it actually ended up being set.

But I do echo the above, this story could have been so deep and inspire so much reflection, and then it just didn't. Feels sorta like when I have an awesome project set up for my students and then they half-ass it and miss what I am trying to teach them through the project.

Guys, the Midnight in Salem storyline is ELITE. Talking about the hundreds of people affected by this tragedy that WERENT hung (although that itself is enough to make me cry).

Like Tituba, the first person accused was a slave.

And there were people thrown in prison after being accused BY CHILDREN.

And then, of course, there were people thrown in prison that WERE CHILDREN.

The four year old they mentioned, Sarah Goode’s daughter, all the souls tortured and murdered.

And we believe that couldn’t happen today. Of course, we know better.

But then there’s Judge Danforth. He is considered a good, impartial man. Beloved by the middle class (Carson Drew as an example). You can blame him for all that happens to Mei. But he doesn’t bat an eye. Of COURSE it’s her. And no one, not even the people protesting this exact outrage outside, EVEN CARES.

There IS NO EVIDENCE she did ANYTHING. She was a CHILD when the fire happened before. But of course, she’s different. I thought this storyline would be cliché, but the things Judge Danforth says… I’ve heard those things from the worst of society, who truly believe they hold power given by God to judge others. Why wouldn’t it be her?

Thank God Nancy gets the chance to stick it to him at the end. But, I truly don’t think he changed his mind. He admits his was wrong but in a way that sounds a whole lot like the good ole Rev Parris, “I may have been mistaken.”

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

- George Santayana