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Fans spent decades claiming that Hideo Kojima is a creative genius who's being held back by the studio system, and then the first time a production gave him free rein to do whatever he wanted he promptly made a game where you have to play out using the bathroom in real time so the protagonist can collect his own urine to craft magic piss grenades. It's unclear whether this confirms the fandom's hypothesis.

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Erik: Wait you mean I could have just told 11 I was in love with him?

Jade: Yeah?

Jade: What did you do instead?

Erik: I told him I was straight.

Jade:

Jade: Erik, no one’s gonna believe that.

Erik: Oh thank god.

Jade: No one except 11.

Erik: FUCK

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“Weird” trans people online are not the cause of transphobia offline.

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Lawan, Second in Command at Barren Light, after the Embassy...

"Sun watch over you, Aloy. I hope you find what you're looking for."

I really liked this guy, his face, voice and personality were so interesting!

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I love whenever they make the princesses look a bit stupid lmao

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Just another day in the life of the Morales & Stacy family.

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lmao he wasn't ready for that

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you came back wrong and i am racked with guilt because i cannot bear to see you like this and i should have let you rest. i loved you so much that i defied death itself but i do not think either of us are happy

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I was just grocery shopping and for a while I was in line behind the peak possible combination of parent and child, here is my 1 minute recreation from memory

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I really love how the game starts out with you saving Gemma, and you think “ok, they’re obviously pulling the ‘childhood friend to lovers card’ here” except you finally leave your hometown, meet a twink in prison, see the world, and if you CHOOSE to, you can “marry” him, and end up closing the game with you saving him in the same way IN THE SAME PLACE.

Only this time the scene has bedroom eyes.

Incredible.

Idk, I just love how the game lets you play the Luminary 100% straight if you want, OR as “the only gay in the village” who only really seemed to emote and smile when he was taking part in a pride parade, and got a less than traditional happy ending - and it’s played completely straight! (Pardon the pun…)

Don’t even get me started on Sylv’s Act 2 adventure, and how it subverts the “those evil gays are recruiting our innocent kids” trope, and instead tells this beautiful story of queer community and how, with the right support, all these closeted guys felt safe enough to Be Themselves and start their new life - despite their age (Tetsu 🥺💕)

And again, none of this is played off as a joke.

I truly love this game like no other.

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I can't get over how there are only four characters talking before the Mordegon fight in act 3. I mean, it makes sense, unlike the others, Hendrik, Rab and Jade all lost family and friends because of Mordegon. They're the only ones that have actually been hurt by him in this timeline.

And then there's Erik, who never had anything to do with Mordegon or lost anything to him, but still speaks up because Eleven has been hurt.

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i found it

the perfect dragon quest playthrough name

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I'm not really a Dragon Ball fan but I love Dragon Quest and that's what I associate him with and goddammit I'm actually crying right now

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11: how many of those have you had today?

Erik lying in a pile of popsicle wrappers: now is not the time to talk about my flaws as a human

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Dragon Quest XI remake where everything is the same but everytime Erik looks at the Luminary "accidentally in love” by Counting Crows starts playing.