myhouse.wad spoilers (incomprehensible if you haven’t played it (WHICH YOU SHOULD DO)),
But here’s some YouTube comments that shortened my lifespan by 27 hours
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Correct me if I’m wrong but through the entire hunger games trilogy, the only person to literally say the words “I love you” is Gale.
Katniss and Peeta don’t ever say these words to each other or to anyone else (like Prim, Mrs Everdeen, Haymitch etc.). I think Katniss at one point in book 1 says she’s sure that Prim is possibly the only person she loves. Peeta says he knew when he was a goner for her in the first book and because they’re “playing” at love, Katniss from then on talks about how Peeta loves her. There’s a bit towards the end of the first book, right as Katniss is thinking of the poison berries, where she talks about Peeta talking about how much he loves her but we don’t actually hear him say it, she just recounts it in her sort of daze. But neither of them say the words “I love you” to each other (or others).
But yet, we know at every turn that Peeta and Katniss love each other and care so deeply about each other. They don’t need to say the words because it’s understood, often through actions and also Katniss’s internal thoughts. We also can tell that they love the people around them, their families, Haymitch, Gale, Finnick etc. We don’t need to hear them say they words “I love you” to know that they love these people and each other.
And at the end of Mockingjay, the “You love me. Real or not real?” moment let’s us know that Peeta is not asking her to say those words to him. He’s asking her to confirm something he already knows to be true.
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Probably my favorite part of the original Apollo Justice game is that none of Apollo's clients are ever really innocent. Phoenix is a thief (he stole Zak's locket), and he tricked Apollo into using forged evidence. Wocky is the most innocent, his only crime being part of a Yakuza family. Machi aided in smuggling the cocoon. While Vera was a prolific forger. It's easily the best part of the game. None of them were guilty of murder but they were still guilty of something.
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The repeated use of the specific word imperialism in fandom discussions of TotK really bugs me because like… we know what imperialism looks like, right?
Genocide either by murder or assimilation, leadership that is either of the conquering race or loyal to it generally for personal gain, control of the conquered’s resources, and a social climate where the conquerors are considered superior.
But in this Hyrule none of the other races had their cultures erased, they aren’t governed by Hylian leaders and the local leaders’ first priority is taking care of their people, they manage their own trade affairs, and Hylians don’t constantly subject others to put downs about their race.
If a Hylian man dares enter Gerudo Town without the Chief’s permission, they kick him out or put him in jail. That’s how much control the Gerudo have over their own territory and how little being a Hylian matters if you mess with them.
Rauru is accused of hoarding power but he literally gave his secret stones out to the other races and they remain in possession of them to this day.
Basically the only time the other nations seem to actually follow Hyrule’s lead at all is when facing common threats or working towards common goals. Hyrule only ever meddles in other lands affairs either to lend them aid (Link and Zelda fighting for everyone, the folks at Tabantha Bridge Stable providing disaster releif to the Rito, etc.) or requesting aid from them (Rauru and Zelda asking the Sages and Champions to help them fight Ganon[dorf].) They lead like a team leader leads.
Sonia and Rauru didn’t found an empire.
They founded an alliance.
I know I’m beating a dead horse here but to my eyes at least (for now) there is zero solid evidence of Hyrule exerting control over the daily lives of non-Hylians or stealing their resources, two major defining traits of imperialistic rule. Hyrule is at the head of the alliance, yes, but an empire isn’t the only system of governance that has one group or individual at the helm of a coalition. The difference is in the details and the details here are that Hyrule leads the others but it does not dominate them, and that is key.
The only empire in the game would have been the one Ganondorf was trying to force on everyone and that was pretty bluntly depicted as being a bad thing. How can we say it’s pro-imperialistic if the main conflict is preventing the rise of an evil empire?
You can’t effectively analyze a narrative by completely ignoring everything about it and its meta that contradicts a knee-jerk viewpoint. What is even the point of analyzing it at all at that point?
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Feeling somewhat called out by my Steam year in review.
ID: A purple screenshot of the Gotham Knights artwork showing Red Robin, Nightwing, and Batgirl. The text reads, "You picked up this game for the first time and were immediately hooked."
I'm not telling you how many hours I've sank into this since getting it a few months ago, but needless to say, it's a lot.
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i havent seen this on tumblr at all but i see it a surprising amount in youtube thumbnails (???) but . people portraying gourm as this food obsessed beast who will keel over and hyperventilate at the sight of A Food rubs me the wrong way . dont do that please .
i was gonna ramble in the tags but i dont wanna leave it all in there so under a cut it goes.
it feels laced with fatphobia, even if just mildly in some cases (theres some images ive seen where ... its not mild at all. its right there .) . like. the stereotypical like . "ohhh all fat people are obsessed with food and just cant stop eating !!!". and idk . as someone who is fat i dislike it . a lot.
theres? nothing in gourms campaign or cutscenes that really indicates that i dont think . at leastnot the THAT extent . like theres that one dream of gourm with a rlly big blue fruit (i think its a blue fruit . its some kind of fruit) but thats literally it? and he's just like . happy . not like . foaming at the mouth . the dude likes food sure but not like . gonna go feral over a single baby centipede levels of liking food .
AND LIKE . im fairly sure the main thing with the food quest isnt "oh gourm wants to try all the food!!" its "oh gourm wants to bring a bunch of food back for his family and friends!" based on the outro cutscene variations and ending art. like thats just a caring guy who wants to make sure the people he loves are fully fed!
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Do you guys ever think about Rana?
How she was only in Minecraft for about a month, and still to this day is remembered fondly in the hearts of many.
How one of the very first documented fanarts for the game featured her and (Indev) Steve together.
How she is such an integral part of the history of the game, and yet is still seldomly known.
How she's been so wiped away by official sources, the only way we still remember her existence is through internet archival and word of mouth.
How she was the frog mob in Minecraft many, many years before frogs were truly implemented. That she carried apples and roses with her, back when roses sprouted one by one out of the ground. That you would have to slay her to even know such a thing.
There was once a brief point in time where we could play with her character model. She did not move the way she was supposed to, as her animations never properly displayed, but she moved anyway. She had maxed out stats that meant nothing and could not properly equip anything, but that was okay. We loved her anyway.
Do you think if Steve could talk, he would tell us about his first friend in green? Of the very short lived adventures they had together in a newly forming world? Do you think he would even remember after all this time, the same way many of us don't?
Do you think she remembers the short time we could play together?
Do you think she remembers us too?
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