#debbie downering

[regallibellbright]

Okay, but while I admit I’m enthused about new Pokemon, I do have to say I’m genuinely concerned about the dev team’s workload.

Were there almost certainly two teams, with one on Legends Arceus and one on Scar/Vio? Yes.

Does it seem highly likely Legends Arceus was intended to release last year and got hit with the COVID delays, which Gen IX as a new cornerstone of the Massive Pokemon Behemoth doesn’t have the liberty to do as much? Yes.

(Note: The anime is always timed to launch a new season when a new game comes out. Plans for that have to be finalized well in advance, both to keep the anime running and because Pokemerch has to be manufactured and on store shelves when the new games are out. This means ‘Gen IX for 2022’ was probably finalized well over a year ago, when there was still hope COVID could get under control. Delays are much harder to manage logistically in a massive toyetic franchise like this than other games, and I don’t think Gamefreak has as much control over the Pokemon train as they really need. This is not me saying that this structure is reasonable - I honestly think they COULD start the anime before the games and starter plushes are usually out ahead of time - just that it’s likely how the business decisions are being made.)

But the fact that they’ve got crouching in the trailer confirms to me this is being built off the base of Legends Arceus, and that’s… surprising, to say the least. Maybe that gameplay was all set up and finalized early in the process so it could be used in both games, and the delays were largely in fine-tuning and designing the precise environments and Pokemon behaviors. The character and region design are the most important aspects to hammer out at the start of development, after all, since the anime needs them, and Legends managed to have fewer of both. Maybe they’re not under killer crunch. I hope so. But still, two games in ten months at this scope is hard not to be worried about.

#long post #pokemon #crunch #debbie downering #the ethics of being a pokemon fan #seriously though I HOPE everything’s fine but like. two games in ten months #I can never not be excited for Pokemon but I can hold that excitement in my heart alongside concern for the humans making it

[aquato-family-circus]

the art book's been delayed so much at this point I'm expect nothing less than to recieve it, open it up, and find bob and helmut making out on the front page with a note saying "sorry for the wait"

#cospn2 #I AM SURE MAKING A 300 PAGE BOOK IS HARD BUT PLEASE CMON IM DYIN OUT HERE #thats the extent to which i'll complain i dont wanna be a debby downer about it bc im willing to wait a long time #i just need to see my blorbos in their raw unfiltered states #please

[stripeydani]

I wish I could love Stardust. I think the work Cody did to try and make the gimmick work and be fun is great. He always gives everything to his roles and I will forever admire him for that.

But ever since hearing how miserable Cody was to the point he was drinking at work after his segments just hoping he'd get caught and fired because he didn't feel brave enough to quit by himself makes me so fucking sad.

Imagine begging anyone who would listen to just let you be yourself at work and them ignoring you? Especially given his Dad died and they were withholding the right for him being called a Rhodes on screen.

Yeah... Stardust gives me a lot of conflicting feelings 🙁

ETA: I'm glad Cody seems to have made peace with it all, it makes it easier. I just get all protective because it was a sad time and he deserved better.

#wwe #cody rhodes #stardust #didnt want to reply this to someones happier post because im a debbie downer sometimes #but wwe did cody so wrong in 2015/2016

[honeybleed]

sometimes when i muster the effort up to work on a wip i get a feeling like “why am i even doing this?” because it feels so pointless

#sorry to be a debbie downer once again #negativity is enmeshed into my personality #i’m eeyore fr #you guys are so sweet and kind to me and i am grateful for engagement i get #but at the same time this feeling will never go away i guess #i’ll feel better soon it’s just current life events lol

[compacflt]

i’ve got a question about your writing process: in order to write a 30 year narrative, you create it out of hundreds of individual moments & actions, and each one has to function by itself and also part of a whole—have truth to itself and emotional resonance in a timeline. imo the key to doing this successfully is to care about each moment and make each one memorable, which seems very difficult: you have to get at the meat of the human behavior, believably, in a way that matters and explains and progresses the story, every time. and to write 200k words of it you do it hundreds of times! could you talk a bit about idea generation for each moment and how you brainstorm and write them?

omg an excuse to make more diagrams ! Thank you so much for this lovely ask!

okay: in case you don’t want to scroll through like four/five months of my inane icemav Poasting, I’ve done a couple other posts that go into my process — here about specifically chapter 1 and here about the fatal flaw of my fics from a construction standpoint

but from an idea generation standpoint… it’s pretty boring and cynical. I literally just make checklists. “things that HAVE to happen.” here’s my notes app check list of stuff that HAD to happen for the story to make sense in my rewrite of what is now chapters 8 & 9. this is from last december lol

and here’s a checklist/diagram of the major story beats and the changes in relationship dynamics throughout the story. any one of these dynamics changing reflects on the others in a way that‘s worth talking about. the hard part is finding a framing device or scene to talk about them.

the A plot of the fic is ice’s relationship with the navy, primarily. his arc is defined by his rank. so that’s the number 1 dynamic I wanted to focus on in such-and-such scenes, and why I stuck as stringently as possible to the “one rank per chapter” formula until ice got to the top & had to reckon with what being at the top actually means. His change in ranks is inspiration enough for most scenes because it shifts the dynamics in a way that is worth remarking upon in and of itself.

as an example im thinking of this scene (mostly because it’s short but also) because i think it’s kind of representative of how my idea generation process works

It fills a lot of gaps that i needed filled at that specific juncture in the story. the idea started with a stupid little section of dialogue in my head (mav would be surprised that ice’s official Navy docusign signature isn’t his actual signature) that happened to be symbolically relevant too (of course ice would have two different signatures for his two different personas). Then it morphed into a discussion of Ice’s canonically unhappy-looking compacflt portrait, which is canonically unhappy-looking. Then add onto that ice admitting he’s only happy at home (home obviously meaning with maverick, given that he’s literally in his house right now and still doesn’t feel like he’s home) and maverick telling him, “well that’s a problem that has literally the easiest fix in the world. youre making this way more complicated than it needs to be. just come home to me.”

so it’s literally just checking off boxes of things I wanted to talk about. as I said, a very cynical creation process. ✅ ice and mav doing the long-distance-relationship phone call thing (framing device for the whole scene). ✅ mav knowing ice’s real vs fake signature ❤️. ✅ ice’s canon unhappy compacflt portrait that makes an appearance in TGM. ✅ ice not feeling at home in Hawaii. ✅ ice not being fulfilled by the job & only being fulfilled by mav. ✅ ice coming up with excuses to see mav at any possible chance he gets. ✅ ice still obviously thinking of mav and Bradley as his family & maverick as his home. Etc etc. You see what i mean? how many stupid little ideas, symbols, and dynamic shifts can i cram into a page or so? that’s pretty much my thinking.

#btw i was out with my friends when i got ur comment on ao3 and it literally made me burst into tears in public so thanks #apartment should be house or residence and drivers license should be DOD ID card #no way the compacflt lives in an apartment on ford island. not possible #also when i wrote ‘it’s not my job to be happy in pictures Pete’ i was kicking my feet and giggling like a little girl #it is actually a huge part of his job to look happy in pictures LMFAO #or at least content with proceedings #but that doesn’t fit the debbie downer narrative!! #top gun #top gun maverick #edts notes #pete maverick mitchell #tom iceman kazansky #icemav #asks #the extras I’m working on are similarly stupid wrt original ideas #Ice & mav celebrate Xmas!!! then turns into like a whole big angst fest #all my ideas start small! #theyre just framing devices for what I want to say

[leelaihardly]

same.

#gmm #smosh #Ian 'resident Debbie Downer' Hecox #Ian 'always down for some 9/11 humor' Hecox #his heart grew 3 sizes that day

[fandomsandfeminism]

Ok.

So.

I know this movie was very pretty. Very pretty. Super nice to look at.

But.

God so much of the plot felt very underdeveloped and confusing. It felt like it was missing 80% of the story from inside the U. She only has like 2 conversations with Beast? How does anything in the virtual world....work? Why does not-Gaston have a dox-ray? What exactly did Beast do that would make the not-internet-cops hunt him? Why is there no moderation happening? Do they...feel pain in U? Why? (It feels like Digimon rules. Is this Digimon rules?)

Honestly, the moment the movie really lost me was when an adult finally calls the cops for a wellness check and is told "they need to wait 48 hours" for....for what? To report an active assault? I...

But at least it was pretty?

This movie has 95% on rotten tomatoes.

#belle #mamoru hasoda #belle 2021 #not to be a debbie downer #but the stakes were so unclear #the themes were nice and the music is good #but my suspension of disbelief kept breaking

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

Miranda: I just missed it. Our life then when he was alive. I can feel myself forgetting it and I don't want to forget it. This place, this life that we've been living here, it doesn't feel like living anymore. I can't be alone in feeling this way. Some part of you must feel it, too.

Flint: Things will get better here. I promise you they will.

ok sorry for like doing this (or am i evil imp emoji dot jpeg) but i really do think this flint and miranda interaction would be very similar to how madi and silver would interact post canon (if at all lmoa). and this is the driving force for silver starting the events that lead to treasure island because there is no life here there is no joy here and silver knows the exact moment he gave all that away and will always, always, be trying to recapture that feeling, that sense of belonging, just like flint was but it can't be done because flint (and originally thomas) are gone and silver and madi's (and flint and miranda's) relationship is broken beyond repair

#not to be a debbie downer <<<<person who is always a debbie downer #black sails #silvermadi #dare i say #silverflintmadi #flintmiranda #tldr it's all the same things happening over and over again and no one can ever get out of it

[anxiouspotatorants]

I found a new thing in Gilmore Girls that would be so much better if Palladino and company had just had the guts to be more explicit about class on the show. And it’s Marty’s storyline.

So I’m one of those few people out there who really liked season 5! Marty, and even though I hate that he was written to crush on Rory I also think his confession scene and departure was well written (it was just ruined by season 7 hindsight). The thing is, I’m fully convinced that you could’ve had a big conflict between Rory and Marty that would cause a rift so big he wouldn’t come back for a full season without that conflict being Marty’s feelings for Rory. And you see what it could be in the same episode as Marty confesses. 

It’s the Life and Death Brigade.

So hear me out. In LDBs introductory episode we are not just introduced to the main trio (Logan, Finn and Colin) as womanizers and pranksters, but as people who pick on Marty because he has worked in their functions. Logan even explicitly states that he thinks he’s better than Marty, and it’s implied (if I’m remembering right) that he thinks so because he’s wealthier and has been in a position where he pays Marty. Then as we get to the confession episode, Marty gets dragged along to a dinner with the LDB gang where they frivolously spend money and then mock Marty for struggling to pay for things he didn’t even want to purchase. The LDB gang - Logan included - is shown multiple times to look down on Marty for his lack of wealth. Marty can’t socialize with these people because of that, but also because he literally cannot afford to spend time with them when all of their gatherings and events are money pits. But Rory’s dating one of them. To Marty, she’s actually dating the worst one. 

How do you think that would make Marty feel as her friend? 

He really doesn’t have to be into Rory or in love with her, his close friend dating one of his bullies is more than reason enough to cause a rift between Marty and Rory. And the thing is, this conflict could’ve been an impactful addition to Rory’s thematic storyline if the writers had just gone for it. Rory is financially and socially stuck between worlds. She will never fit into Logan’s world because of her upbringing, but she will always have more access to that world and resources than someone like Marty. And Rory “chosing” Logan’s world in season 5 before she hits rock bottom, and then returning to her roots (her mom, studying, Lane and Paris) and standing up for herself against Emily can be seen as a step in her journey of coming to terms with never being able to truly choose one world. And then Marty could’ve come back, not as a bitter former crush, but as a hurt friend who sees the change Rory is going through, and might help her along as she continues on this journey. 

We could’ve had a great storyline about the highs and lows of a friendship that’s affected by class, and instead we got a half baked nice guy plot.

#back on my Marty propaganda bullshit #I really think an angsty friendship storyline with class overtones would've been great here #it would've given Marty as a character more weight and made Rory's journey feel less adrift in the latter seasons #rory x marty #BUT PLATONIC #rory gilmore #marty gilmore girls #yale debbie downers #gilmore girls #the potato rants #gilmore girls discourse #gilmore girls meta #anti logan huntzberger #anti life and death brigade

[blackladynerd]

My Gentlebeard Endgame Thoughts…(Analysis)

I preface by saying I want Gentlebeard endgame as much as everyone else but…

here’s why I think it might not happen.

It’s been established since season one that Stede and Edward (Blackbeard) are on different trajectories in life. When they meet, Blackbeard is already clearly tired of the pirating life even expressing an interest to Izzy that he was tired of life in general not just pirating. When Stede introduces him to the idea of retirement it excites him. His original plan to burn Stede’s face off was so that he could retire and have Izzy take over as captain.

While Stede, on the other hand, upon meeting Blackbeard is excited to learn from the best in the business so he can start to live as a pirate; his pirating life is only just beginning.

At the end of season one, Edward has completely shed his Blackbeard persona - beard and all. He is perfectly happy to give up the pirate life. This is expressed in his demeanor in the recruitment camp. He makes no effort to escape and eases into the life folding clothes and “playing things by ear.”

It is only when Edward believes Stede reciprocates his feelings that he plans the escape. He knows that normalcy/society won’t let them be together. However, his plan never involves them being pirates again. His plan is only to start over as new people in love.

We see a glimpse of what he hoped for when he returns to The Revenge. They would live a life at sea not pillaging and thieving but just…living, singing songs and enjoying each others company. Heck they might even put on talent shows. This is not the pirate life Stede would want/dreamed about.

So, of course season one ends w/ Edward heartbroken and returning to his Blackbeard persona. Yes, he’s heartbroken because Stede rejected him, but that’s not the only thing he’s devastated about. He is heartbroken by the idea that he’s trapped. He’s trapped in this life he no longer wants, playing a role he no longer wants to play. For him being Blackbeard is a lifelong fuckery, and he is mourning the life he imagined/desired for himself.

Into Season Two…

It is at the start of season two that we see Stede really doesn’t understand this.

As he’s talking to Edward’s wanted poster he admits that he’s less worried about Ed wanting to kill him and more worried that Ed’s life has been better off without him. He sees that wanted poster and the endless list of crimes as Ed “living his best life.” Being out on the seas committing crimes is what a pirate wants, right? He doesn’t view it as the hell it’s actually been.

We see that Edward at the start of season two is actually suffering. Again, it’s not just because of Stede but because he feels trapped in this endless pirating life. He is the seabird that never touches land. It’s this idea of being destined to an endless life at sea coupled with feeling unlovable that causes Edward’s suicidal thoughts from season one to return.

When Ed goes to purgatory we see those desires for retirement haven’t gone away. He wants the simple life as Jeff the innkeeper. It is the part he hates about himself (Captain Hornigold) that is keeping him from it - the pirate part of himself.

However, Stede is fully embracing the pirate parts of himself and is honestly improving as a captain. He found the crew shelter, planned a somewhat successful robbery, orchestrated a successful escape, managed to land a good punch, and even made a decent threat. On top of that we’ve seen he’s still actively seeking advice and taking notes from Izzy and Zheng Yi Sao.

Just like Stede didn’t see how much Ed was suffering as a pirate, Ed hasn’t seen how much Stede is growing/thriving as a pirate. For Ed he still views Stede as the “fragile” man he first met. Even as they’re reunited and reconciling, they still haven’t realized how much the other has changed or how different their goals are.

Conclusion

So…what happens when they’re forced to confront that they’re at different stages of life? Buttons told Ed that change was required in order to love properly/ fully, but how much are they willing or able to change for the other? Would Ed completely sacrifice his desire for retirement by staying at sea w/ Stede? Or would Stede give up his dreams of piracy to stay on land w/ Ed? I really don’t see either happening which is why I question a Gentlebeard endgame.

Who knows maybe they’ll be able to figure out a happy medium/compromise. I hope they do I love them together, but right now I’m not feeling so sure 🥺😕

End of rant. If you’ve read this far, thanks for indulging me.

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd season 2 #ofmd analysis #gentlebeard #ed x stede #being a bit of a debbie downer #I haven’t seen any episodes past 2x05 #blackbonnet #our flag means gay #blackbeard x stede

[thisisyourdriverspeaking]

Sky Sports F1 trying to say it's gonna be tough for Max tomorrow...bitch the Red Bull is 20000 miles faster than everyone else and all the drivers will probably just let him by and not challenge him. He will be fine

#not to be debbie downer here but lets be real #f1 #miami gp 2023

[bish0ps]

How many times do i say oh fr. Literally. Yeah fr. before this dude shuts uppp

#quit telling me how bad ur everything is idc... debbie downer...

[hsslilly-blog]

i know nothing about coding but if i did i'd rip the damn game apart and pull out all the dialogue for quests and put them in a. idk spreadsheet or google doc or something. i HATE how this high school story and hollywood u are so badly perserved and documented, partially through the fault of its creators. i get that these are niche games that a grand total of five people even remember them but if i think about how an ENTIRE HALF OF THE STORY IS GONE BECAUSE THERE'S A REQUIRED SERVER CHECK it makes my blood boil.

i am too passionate about this

hi! this is not a bad idea at all, especially since hwu is… very lost. i’ll get to work on something like this as soon as possible! i’ll also make my hss screenshots available.

i’ll use this ask to rant. i simpatize with you… way too much. i try not to speak about this very often because it just makes me angry and because, well, it’s a super niche game and we had around four years to organize and archive it but… it is a niche game. by 2022, who even was active in the fandom besides like… me and five other people? not to mention it was very out of the blue, with such a small window between the announcement and the shut down it was impossible to archive everything. i spent full days trying to screenshot as much of high school story as i could. and now i regret i didn’t spend this time archiving hollywood u instead. but what is done is done.

i think… i mean, as much as it sucks, high school story is still fully playable if you have the .apk (or if you have it in your ios). what really, really bothers me is how hollywood u is essentially… lost media? the game itself, yes, but over 20-30 quests are missing from the files because they were released after pixelberry (apparently) decided to store some of the assets on the online server and not locally anymore. even if i were to drop the quests in a word .doc, it still wouldn’t be fully available. and that makes me angry. hwu was last updated in 2018 with a “fix”. why couldn’t they have used the opportunity to make these files available locally? it was pretty obvious at that point the games were sunsetting one day. might have given the chance for the fans to preserve it in some way since hwu would be locked behind a server check forever.

i don’t know. i’m not a dev. but i’m pretty sure they had the tools and the means, they just didn’t see it as worthy of their time. and i get it a little. they were very busy with choices at that time. these games were very dead. pb was past them. but come on. hss and hwu were part of pixelberry’s history and i like to believe these games deserved more than what they got. ~30 days between the announcement and the shut down? please. a little bit more of respect for the art they themselves created!! i think it all just boils down to me feeling… angry, sad and… heartbroken that one of theses games is completely unplayable in 2024 and forever. just like that. to expunge and deprive people from the art you once delighted in creating and sharing is sad!

sorry for hijacking the ask. i just wanted to get this out. i’ll work on making the quests dialogues available.

#high school story #hss game #hss prime #hwu game #pixelberry #hollywood u #longpost #we do have some screenshots and gameplays #but it’s not the same thing is it? #it sucks i can’t like. #HAVE these games. in my phone. i can’t open them. i can’t play them #this feels… wrong!!!!!! #esp w/ hollywood u #what do you MEAN i cant even read a quarter of the quests?! #what do you MEAN there’s no way of OPENING the game anymore? #its so stupid sorry #i don’t talk much about this because i get heated #and i don’t want to be a debby downer i mean the fandom is pretty small i’m not going to fill it with rant posts #but. yeah #ask

[theunstuffedpepper]

Feeling stressy today. Holden is having himself A DAY with many, many tantrums. Derrick is starting to have some reflux troubles and it’s really bothering him. MIL was definitely in the wrong 2 weekends ago, I told her it wasn’t ok, and she’s been frankly acting like a childish brat ever since, ignoring/avoiding us all while living in our second house.. that we pay for. I’m getting sharp pains in my head and chest - pretty sure the stress is manifesting physically.

I need tomorrow to be better. Deep breaths.

#momblr #debbie downer over here today #10162023

[ofallthingsnasty]

you know what, for every damn time i'm getting fat-shamed irl you'll get something with a chubby reader from now on. i've had it.

#nasty.talks #i'm done with the concern trolling. it's NOT coming from a nice place actually #sorry to be such a debby downer i'm trying to convert that energy from now on 😤

[byersfanclub]

btw this is a 100% confident byler is endgame blog until proven otherwise when season five comes out just so y’all know

#byler #im not a doubter #im not a debbie downer blog #W