#FUCK I'M SO HYPED

[bixels]

Splatoon 3: Side Order is good, but not great. I still highly recommend it, but if you care about the story, you're going to be disappointed. Quick review: spoilers ahead.

Side Order was the devs experimenting with Splatoon's gameplay loop. The campaign is a rogue-like, and it works amazingly well. Super fun, super challenging, building my deck and fighting through challenges with the stakes of resetting really scratched an itch in my brain. They did a great job with it.

Unfortunately, I feel like priority went to game design rather than story. Much of the mysterious artwork we saw in the first teaser trailer was completely unused; turns out, all of that was just concept art that never made it into the final product. Side Order failed to make me care about what was happening. I don't know why the protagonist had to be Agent 8; it could've been anyone else and the story would've worked the same.

Octo Expansion was the absolute peak of meshing story and gameplay. The campaign's hook is insanely strong; we immediately empathize with Agent 8 because we know from previous lore that octolings like her have been trapped underground for all their lives. We care about her fight to the surface because it's a fundamentally ideological fight for freedom. The plot stuff about Tartar and the Thangs is just nice set dressing; 8's fight for freedom is the real story.

There's none of that in Side Order. I don't particularly care about Marina's metaverse, even if it's tied to Octo Expansion's story. I don't know why Acht is there other than backstory stuff. It really feels like 8 is just told to do something and she does it because she's the protagonist; she has zero personal stakes or motivations in the conflict. This is a story blunder the devs did in Splatoon 3's default campaign––forgetting to give the protagonist a personal reason to fight––that I hoped would be fixed here, but alas.

What makes it worse is that the gameplay and story progression are completely out of sync. I beat the entire game on my third run in 4 hours. With each run, you get up to two keys to potentially unlock bits of story. That means you'll get about one piece of the story every two runs. There are twelve pieces of the story; I got the first and then beat the whole damn game. Now I have to go back and grind to see the remaining story when I've already beaten the final boss and resolved the conflict. I missed the entire story because I never had to reset because I blazed through the gameplay! It's just a real shame that I experienced everything without knowing... why it's happening. The final boss had me asking myself what the hell is going on because I don't know the backstory at all.

Again, I still really recommend. The devs did a great job, but Side Order remains in the shadow of Octo Expansion's incredible success. Like the default singleplayer campaign, there's just a lot of lost story potential here that, while not necessary, would have really elevated this DLC into something amazing.

#long #personal #rant #splatoon #side order #it's a shame too because I got SO FUCKING HYPED at the title drop #when I realized that the entire first 30 minutes of the game was JUST THE OPENING TUTORIAL and they hit you with the music #and the “nintendo presents” and the title drop to a slow mo explosion. I thought “holy shit this is gonna be huge” #alas it wasn't because it turns out i'm better at roguelikes than the devs anticipated so i beat it in 3 hours lol #octo expansion was a cultural reset. it did something to my brain. the entire rising action part of the story; the reveals the twists the #boss fights the upward climb. it was so incredibly hype and just upped the stakes over and over. nothing's come close

[politicalprocrastinator]

Every trans child deserves a parent like David Tennant and I'm so serious about that

#every opportunity he is hyping up the trans community and specifically his trans kid and that is so fucking beautiful #and georgia as well she has been a prominent and influential voice in the pro trans movement in the uk #and I'm so proud of/happy for them #and i hope their kid (formerly wilfred we dont need to know what they do by now) #feels the love day to day cos they deserve it #david tennant #Georgia tennant #trans rights #doctor who

[cloxite]

finally able to post this art i did for the @mcrerazine (which u can get here)!!! this zine is sick as hell and the artists/writers/mods did a wonderful job at making this come together!! <3

#HEY been offline for a bit but Oh BOY i'm so fucking hyped to finally share this!! #my art #tbp #the black parade #mcr #my chemical romance #digital art #clip studio paint

[bylerisrequited]

finn and noah's favorite byler scene being the van scene oh byler is so endgame we won

#byler #stranger things #i'm so fucking hyped oh my god

[spacenintendogs]

u do not need context to understand what is happening

#LMAOAOAOAOO #on the wiki page for family matters ep bc i'm looking at info #for the ask blog #& these screencaps caugjt my eye #snotlout's fucking FACE #httyd #fishlegs ingerman #snotlout jorgenson #that cavern crasher is so hyped KXKKSSKKS #out of context it looks like two parents arguing with their hyperactive dog behind them begging for the ball (egg) #rose rambles #....... #fishlout #shut up LMAO

[donutdrawsthings]

I'm literally OVER THE MOON with joy to see these two together on screen and talking like 2 girls at a sleepover again

so much has changed since then yet at the same time nothing has changed at all

#drew this while still in a cast YoY the hype got too real #i'm fucking crazy but i'm free #14th doctor #donna noble #doctor who #fourteenth doctor #10th doctor #david tennant #donutdrawsthings #fanart #doctor donna #doctor who 60th anniversary #doctor who special #dw 60th #tenthree #tentwo #catherine tate #tenagain #wild blue yonder #having so much fun

[juneviews]

BE MY FAVORITE

#be my favorite #be my favorite the series #fluke gawin #gawin caskey #krist perawat #gawinkrist #thai drama #my gifs #bypiningbisexuals #BROOOOOOO #I'm sorry but I'm so fucking hyped omg this looks very good!!! #gawin looks so cute stoppppp #and I can't believe krist has more chemistry with him in this one trailer than he's ever had with singto LMAO #the ost is SO GOOD too ahhhhhhhh #I have found my next obsession thank you it's been so long since I haven't been obsessed with a show lol

[lesbian-rook]

Could you draw Rhaghata in suit and Pomni in Maid dress? :3

Caine decided to hold a fancy ball

(also Pomni totally borrowed that outfit from Jax)

#buttonblossom #pomni x ragatha #i've never understood the hype around maid dresses. but Ragatha in a suit? sign me the fuck up #I'm pretty strict about Pomni not being able to take off the hat but I'm lenient on her clothes #However i can imagine her hat changing colors based on her outfit so imagine a black and white one here

[rakruined]

And with 146, it all falls into place

So much of part 2 has finally clicked after this latest chapter. The reason behind the Chainsaw Man Church, the reason Fami approached Asa and Yoru, the Justice Devil's true identity... everything's definitely starting to make sense.

While I'm not entirely positive why fire can transform people (something to do with forging things in flame?), the fact that it gets more powerful the more people it transforms, in addition to being less controllable in greater numbers, definitely reflects wildfires. Maybe the transformation reflects how large scale fires transform landscapes and burn away the old and dead to make way for the new?

At any rate, the emphasis on marriage with the CSM Church now makes total sense, as it would ultimately be a form of contract stealthily made with the Fire Devil. With those numbers, Fami's true goal may be well within grasp.

And that's to kill the Death Devil!!! I guess anyone who was theorizing the eldest sister was already in the story was way off the mark, given that she's now (presumably) the big bad. Of course, this being Chainsaw Man I doubt it'll be that simple, but still. It also now makes total sense that Fami's been messing with Denji and Asa all along, as well as why Nayuta went along with most of it.

This is such a great way to shift the whole meaning of the story. Suddenly our two protagonists, who've been unknowingly at odds for so long, are the last hope to defeat Death. Heh, that's funny. Remember when Yoshida asked Denji if he could erase Death? I wonder what he's up to right-

Oh. OH. And Yoru is about to get a massive power boost from all that fear. Oh.

Well, RIP Octopus Boy. I'm not gonna lie, unless you have some way of escaping real fast, I don't think you're surviving this one.

#I'm so fucking HYPED #chainsaw man #csm spoilers #chainsaw man 146 #csm 146 #fami #mifune fumiko #barem #nayuta #the death devil #denji #hirofumi yoshida #asa mitaka #yoru

[dreamlifebunny]

Hi idk if this is a stupid question or not but I just want to know, I saw you had a gifts from the universe post or something like that and it talked about fictional characters and such, so with that does that mean I can manifest a fictional character into my reality? Like this reality? I was always told I couldn't do that and if I can omg I'm gonna cry happy tears haha 😭💖

hi hi! not a stupid question at ALL, seriously! you absolutely frickin' can manifest a fictional character in your reality! 🥰 isn't that so exciting!? your childhood dreams are about to pop off hehe. this is a much longer post than i expected because i kinda just rant, but i hope it's helpful.

so, i found reality shifting through the self-ship community, then i found law of assumption through the reality shifting community, and then found non-dualism through the law of assumption community. if there is ONE thing i want everyone to take away from ANY of these teachings/communities (regardless of which ones you follow and resonate with) it is that anything that you can imagine, you can experience.

we are the creators. we are the experiencers. we are. the thing about "fictional characters" is that, as the creators of our lives, we as humans have also created whole other worlds with lore and characters, right? if you are aware of the these worlds, their lore, their wonderful characters, then they absolutely exist, right now, because they were created by us. if you are holding them in your imagination, they are here, because you as imagination is all that there is. and that means, if you are imagining them to be in your "real world" reality, then they can absolutely show up here.

now if someone told you that you can't manifest fictional characters into your reality and they were in the law of assumption community, they do not understand what the law of assumption is all about. i mean, it's in the name of the teaching, "assumption," right? what you ASSUME to be true, will be true. if you assume that fictional characters can come into your reality, then that'll be true! eep i'm getting so exciting even just thinking about this, haha! i have nothing but respect and love for the reality shifting community because they opened up my societally-conditioned perspective to a lot of possibilities and changes, but a lot of people in the shifting community have many limiting beliefs about what is possible. the truth is, if you can shift your consciousness to be in a "fictional" freaking world, then you can do just about anything in this world too, right? people believe that they can shift to entirely "made up" worlds that they script, but they don't believe that they can alter their "current reality" with the same scripting techniques, even though they absolutely can and none of it is different from reality shifting to a "fake" world. it's all possible, regardless of the reality you are experiencing!

as proof from my own experience, i actually have a fictional character i brought into my life! in my case, i was hyperfixating on this fictional character who was an absolutely nasty evil dirt bag but i was sooo in love with him (classic lmao). in the beginning i wasn't even trying to bring him here, i was just trying to "reality shift" to meet him and come back to my "current reality" where i was safe because i knew he was a toxic man i should have no business being with haha. i knew i didn't want him in my reality because he was, well, evil, but i did wanna visit him and hang in a "different reality" for a period of time. i always told myself, "i wish there was a version of this character that would just love the shit out of me and not be so evil, one that i actually would love to have around every day..." and every night i would try to reality shift to a world to hang out with him despite this thought in my head. i never felt disappointed when i woke up in my CR because the joy i had was in visualizing hanging out before bed. it felt really real in the moment, just daydreaming and feeling silly and sweet, and it brought me so much happiness - as daydreams should!

i never ended up shifting my awareness to that reality, because something even better happened. since i imagined meeting him and spending time with him every night and persisted in the idea that i would eventually reality shift, i ended up manifesting a person into my life who had every quality that i loved in the evil character WITHOUT the evilness, and he ended up being my best friend and one of my partners! this person showed up in my life and completely flipped my world around, bring me everything that the fictional character had brought me in my imagination. like, everything, minus the bad stuff that i didn't want. it was the first case of manifesting that i had ever been super conscious of achieving, and it changed my whole perspective on the practice. i also immediately stopped caring about the old character i had been manifesting because i was so obsessed with this new person in my life LOL. it was pure magic!!

now, i realize that this is not at exact example of your question, as you're asking if you can bring a fictional character into this reality exactly as they are. and guess what? you absolutely can. the only reason i didn't bring this exact character into my reality was because i wanted a different version of him to show up, but if i had wanted him to show up exactly as he was, he would have! i wanted to give you this as an example of something like this so you can see the possibilities, but don't let the fact that it wasn't the exact fictional character deter you - my fictional person showed up exactly as i wanted him to, and yours can too! you can even make them better! 😎 hehe

this was a long-assed post, but i hope it brought some joy and excitement. please remember: you can do, be, and have any frickin' thing you want in this life, if your beautiful mind can dream it up! dream beautiful dreams and know that absolutely everything is possible! so much love 💗

#long assed post #so sorry lol #CAN YOU TELL I'M FUCKING HYPE #hehe #bunny's asks #bunny's originals

[crustaceousfaggot]

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#I've never made a Destiel meme before are you proud of me #ignore the imgflip watermark #anyways. fuck the British museum I'm legit so hyped about this #news #british museum

[fighting-naturalist]

One-man hype squad Cameron Mitchell

#i love him so fucking much okay #stargate #stargateedit #cameron mitchell #daniel jackson #ben browder #michael shanks #s9 #ep18 #9.18 #***edits #when i'm trying to figure out something tough i'm now just gonna imagine that cam is behind me doing this #i can't see him because he's invisible but he's there and he's HYPING ME

[campbyler]

good news everyone, learning how to drive a stick shift monday

#yes for all the talking and hyping i have done abt ch9.2 and how obnoxious i've made mike abt his manual i have never driven one <3 #my parents and my older sister both can tho and my dad has explained it to me Many times #but my SISTER is goign to TEACH ME in her CAMAROOOOO #fuck you mike wheeelerrrrrrr i'm BETTER THAN YOOOOOUUU #anyway i truthfully was going to wing 9.2 based on my knowledge and research but now i will have practical application 2 work off of as wel #congrats to all readers who are able to drive a stick shift hopefully it will be so so accurate now .

[ybcpatrick]

🔥🖤🩸hey, youngblood.🩸🖤🔥

(kell ybcpatrick has achieved their final form. it's never gettin' any better than this. couple more pics under the cut)

sorry i've got an ego abt this. i feel like a million bucks i'm so obsessed w this costume. also bonus points

thank u for ur time.

#shut up kell #face #cw blood #I AM SO FUCKING EXCITED ABT THIS I FEEL AWESOME DUDE #GRRRRRARARAR #i'm main tagging sorry i'm so hype #fob #fall out boy #ybc #youngblood chronicles #patrick stump #ybc!patrick

[gophergal]

ok, so- @kpen-draws forced me to draw stucky in the year 2023 and she's going to fight me if I don't post it

#gopher art #stucky #marvel mcu #bucky barnes #captain america #steve rogers #I didn't wanna put this in the main tags but shes required it of me #on the bright side 12 year old gopher is so fucking hyped #I shipped them so hard #and I'm admittedly kinda proud of how this looks #guess I'll die now luv yall

[mopeytwat]

Honestly thank fuck that Izzy crying clip came out a week prior to the actual episode because I would have died and shat myself having to take all of that in at once as well as whatever tf else the episode is gonna show.

#He makes me silly #He makes me feel things #Izzy hands #Our flag means death #Ofmd #Ofmd spoilers #Con O'Neill #Ofmd season 2 #ofmd season 2 spoilers #I'm so hyped #I'm so fucking scared #This season will end me #Omg my poor silly creature #Pls let him be happy in the end #I need to go to sleep #Omg