#so unsatisfied by everything

[prwlnglthr]

mister nyan neko sugar girl himself // buncha low-effort panel redraws fuck it we ball

#ogata hyakunosuke #golden kamuy #spx art #binged gk and you could say he's been on my mind #I wish he was real so I could lock him in a room with freud and see who loses it first #king of motherless fatherless brotherless bitchless behaviour. I wish his nefarious ass only the worst in hell. #spx chicken scratch #spx fanart #spx golden kamuy #I've been in a bit of an art rut where I'm unsatisfied with everything hohum

[transmasccofee]

talking about the ending again I love the ending. The more I think about the ending the more I love it. It’s hopeful but it’s not happy. It’s the best conclusion I can think of for Saiki’s character. It gives the audience so much room to headcanon what happens next. It’s so good it’s so sos so sos hkfiejevfemmfrejfmfnfmf.

#I’m so used to being disappointed by endings #Never seen any other series beat the ending saiki k has #Fuckkkk. AAAAAA. ITS SO GOOD THE WHOLE SERIES IS SO GOOD. HOW IS IT SO GOOD. #It left me wanting more but didn’t leave me unsatisfied like #Expertly crafted #I don’t think people understand how good it is #It’s also like.. weirdly cohesive. #I can’t remember any arcs that felt clunky or awkward or unfitting #Because of the premise even the stupid stuff works #And everything like. Matters. #even brief arcs matter and get referenced again (possibly because from what I can tell Shuuichi Asou really likes callbacks) #It’s just so good

[napalmchugger]

mini Jonny WIP that I don't think I'll finish. Another unfortunate victim of the chibi-fication ray...

#my creation (is it real?) #radiohead #radiohead fanart #digital art #jonny greenwood #90s music #Now that the tags are over and done with.. time to hide a rant under this post #Main reason why I didn't finish this was because the very act of drawing this was pissing me off. Hugely #I don't know what the fuck is up with me lately but I've been so unhappy with my art to the point where it genuinely makes me angry #It's taking a huge toll on my motivation for pretty much everything now art-related or not #And I just.. god. No matter how many breaks I take or style tests I do nothing looks nice in my eyes #Having your main source of creativity be as chronically unsatisfying as this really does fucking suck. I don't know what to do #But ah well. If I stop then I dont have stuff to post so I suppose we'll keep going #Sorry for this. Brain feels very clogged lately and it's only getting worse. I'll survive though

[mus1ca1]

taurs taurs and more taurs

#starlight express #stex #extremely unsatisfied with everything i draw right now so just drawing whatever atm :I #rusty the steam engine #wrench the repair truck #electra the electric engine #dinah the dining car #stex au #starlight express au #stex fanart #starlight express fanart

[hazbinfictivesofabiggersystem]

💅 People can say what they will about Vivz and her works (they're allowed to be wrong #sorrynotsorry), but if we weren't such a bloody mess I think we could write a dissertation on the tons of little ways both of these series are clever. Every time we watch them again we learn something new or notice something we missed that adds a new layer a depth. And then there's the possibilities! It's no wonder the fandom is on fucking fire right now, there's like a million different ways things could go and it's exhilarating.

#hazbin hotel #helluva boss #vivziepop #velvette fictive #hazbin fictive #and don't get me started on the people unsatisfied with the representation #not to be all “kids these days” but some of you lot never would have survived the days of superwholock #We survived on crumbs and piles of dead gays #these shows are so blatantly QUEER and it's everything we've ever wanted

[snickerdoodlles]

there's a lot of things people blame for why fandoms feel like ghost towns these days, but no one's really talked about the way discord's contributing to it

#its like #people are trying to force fit discord's chatrooms into forum boards #except discord is just. really really *really* poorly setup for that #and theres no way to archive or share it so everything said in it is easily lost despite personal export or community pins or search option #and like #vaguely hearing about the way some people are unsatisfied with them/feeling unfufilled in the response to them #a lot of people would be better off posting those things to places like tumblr #where there isnt a time limit on when people see or respond to them #part of what's scary/frustrating on tumblr rn is some fandoms arent good about reblogging to posts or tag rambling #like with bad buddy a large part of the fun was the enthusiastic and in depth tag rambles and the way responses built on each other #vs something like kinnporsche which feels much more like-oriented #like? its not like theres any one way to fandom #and there's nothing actually wrong with likes or quiet reblogs #but vaguely hearing about the way some people were/are really upset with some servers im just kinda like #idk #feels a bit like people trying to force a square thru a circle or that they're looking in the wrong spaces for what they want #.......this is not a complaint for my space ajkds i think i've carved out a pretty happy space for myself! #im just checking the reblog graphs of some old vs new stuff and thinking about a convo other cookie and i were having over the weekend #i have a lot of friends around and i love everyone who's happy to ramble with me #but i do feel a slight case of DM burnout rn where mostly people reach out to me via DMs instead of reblogs #which is a very different dynamic #its like. hmmm words #i love DMs but the pressure of responding to a lot of individual messages #vs something like reblogs which is more open forum for everyone and feels more communal #if that makes sense? #the difference between visiting one person at home vs casually hanging out with a group at a cafe #and the lovely thing about tumblr specifically is that i can set down a reblog chain for several days if i need #before returning to it later when i have more time/energy #its got Longevity that discord lacks u know #........okay enough tag musings from me ajkfhjdgfhj BYE

[painless-innit-colourful]

so how is it in both cases they nailed the build-up and then by comparison the ending was like stepping on a banana peel.

#dream smp #dsmp critical #hello first time i've ever used that tag #crim speaks #tommyinnit #wilbur soot #to clarify: i do not hate those streams. i enjoyed the feelings they put me through #i am however baffled as to how they could nail it on the build-up streams then create finales that left so many people so unsatisfied #yes yes art is subjective #but while i'd change both finales Drastically if i could... for inconsolable differences and the friday stream i have no notes #(that's the crimeboys stream with the beach party if you're not sad like me and remember all their names) #like. id was incredible. i will never experience those emotions again. and friday was just perfect. everything i could've wanted #great setup for the next one and then...?? #it appears to be 1am and i am airing my grievances. this is what happens when i get sick

[nebjamin]

Does anyone want to listen to me rant about Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney? Because I have some thoughts.

#I LOVED the first AA Trilogy and TGAA 1 and 2 #so I KNOW they can do better than this #there were such cool moments #but the execution was so off #and Turnabout Succession was so flawed as a finale #I know nothing will compare to Bridge to the Turnabout from AA3 #well except for maybe the TGAA finale #but COME ON #that finale was not earned #and klavier? cool character but what happened to being upset when you lose? #What happened to the amazing writing for Edgeworth #Von Karma #and Godot? #Why does Apollo (and the player by extension) need to be babied for the entire game? #Why does everything feel so unsatisfying? #Someone please listen to me I need to rant #Ace Attorney #apollo justice #apollo justice: ace attorney #ajaa #ajaa spoilers

[pharawee]

It's been 84 years but I finally had the time to finish watching Shadow and...

I loved it? I absolutely loved the ending, and I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be ambiguosly and inevitably dark but I wouldn't mind a second season (gmmtv let their actors do third-party productions before) if only because Fiat Patchata was absolutely incredible and so were Singto (I somehow remained spoilerfree but I immediately picked up on the change in Dan's voice when he... you know) and Fluke (🥰🥰🥰) and Poon and Yaimai, and finally Utt Uttsada who deserves all kinds of awards for his role as Brother Anurak.

I also loved the interwovenness and conflict between psychology, philosophy, history and religion. It painted a very grim but human picture. Plus, the cinematography and colour-grading were incredibly stunning.

I'm tempted to actually go look for other, more in-depth reviews now but I dimly remember the very lukewarm reception back when the series was first released and tbh I'm still basking in the afterglow of amazingly well done Thai psychological horror. 😩👌

#viu shadow #jane watched stuff #i feel like shadow and dff are very similar - and exemplary for thai or even (s)ea horror #and i wonder if this is why their respective endings feel unfinished or even unsatisfying to some #as for me it gave me everything i expected from this genre #so i'm supper happy actually what a treat 🙏

[skibasyndrome]

I'm about to throw all my academic values overboard to get this fucking article done

#linguistics are my enemy #not because I don't like the subject #I'm just........ so much less at ease with this than with literary sciene oh my god #I'm so glad I can mostly focus on lit in the future but let me tell you these few linguistics articles I have/had to do have really brought #me to my limit #and I thought I was already fed up and not giving a shit when I did that one article in summer... oh I had NO IDEA how much less of a shit #was capable of giving!!! #the thing is.... I think objectively I'm still? idk not the worst I could technically be doing #like there ARE people who straight up... idk don't even try to have a research question or who don't read more than a handful or articles b #t ugh #I like academic writing so much and I love putting in the work and I love actually getting into the reseach and finding the most important #texts and writing a balanced and well researched article but ugh..... I just feel like I keep reaching my limits with linguistics #and this time is worse than the others because this topic is SO FAR from being standardized and all I can do is ???? mention that there's #like a hundred different models and then just??? choose one and go with it? which is so fucking unsatisfying #but I swear... everybody in this field is just making up a new model that's just different words for the same thing (and not in the /normal #way that science /always/ is about making up a new model. no. this time they are very unnecessarily making up new models) #ugh. everything about this sucks #I should've chosen a different seminar I should've chose a different topic and I especially should've written more of this in summer when I #technically still had a little more time #sorry for blowing up your dash with complaints this festive season lol. I am just having a time (TM) with the different writing tasks on my #hands and I need a place to vent I guess #simon.out. #sounds so drastic btw I'm not about to cheat or plagiarize or anything but I'm about to do so much less of a proper work than I ever wanted #to allow myself to do. cherrypicking and all.

[crehador]

it's absolutely doing my head in that you can't zero out the event currency, like if you clear the shop you'll have at least 5 puppy coins left no matter what (because i guess the item that cost 15 coins had an odd number in stock?)

and you can never get rid of it because there's no stage that gives a number of coins ending in 5, so it just... sits there...... forever.........

#crab plays #reverse 1999 #obviously this is a complete non-issue but it's just SO unsatisfying to not be able to spend all the event currency #like arknights has the no limit lmd for 1 event point so you can always spend everything #but the equivalent here (the no limit dust and sharpodonty) cost 10 puppy coins each #so even those can't get you to zero #i keep going through the stages like AM I MISSING ONE?? CAN WE GET XX5 COINS FROM SOMEWHERE #but alas i don't think so #lol this is truly such a non-issue #whatever. post

[adriles]

I’m curious which war crimes you do and don’t approve of

i enjoy any war crime induced by rage, racking up a ton of kills, maiming every enemy combatant in sight. only shitheads kill in attempt to live up to the heroism of others

#thinking about malouf’s ransom specifically here lol #when he writes achilles’ having a vision of priam’s death at the hands of neoptolemus #with the attempt of avenging his father. but their is nothing to avenge. same with polyxena #in hecuba they have it be tbat achilles’ spirit comes before neoptolemus and tells him to kill her to return #but i could just be a euripides hater with the exception of his helen play but. that doesnt sit right with me #it is to appease the wind in the same way iphigenia was to appease the gods #it was bound to happen anyways. but it is upon achilles’ grave as neoptolemus again sees himself as avenging his father #it is an unsatisfying act. all that killing for the sake of achilles #sure u can be like. polyxena led him to the gates #but she didnt kill him that is paris and apollo #but paris is already dead so who is left for neoptolemus to target as his father’s avenger #it is a role without any use. it is pointless. #and when we see achilles in the odyssey he barely cares about the news of his own son beyond odysseus saying yeah he is chilling #it is more to lament his own suffering #i dont think achilles cares in the end about neoptolemus. he is just a boy like his father bred for war and desperate #for purpose and attachment #beyond that tho. i dont think achilles would approve of killing priam like that is the main thing #he is not above violence to the man. he threatens him in book 24. but in the end there is a respect there. for the grief and loss they share #malouf writes about the shame that follows neoptolemus after everything #and i think that is a far more poignant thing than disappointment from the father you barely know #to carry the weight of your actions knowing that your father would so differently #again achilles is a piece of shit and would do the same if not worse in his son’s place #but in his place toward priam he wouldnt. and neoptolemus reaps that destruction anyways #this is long winded the point is the shame rather than the actual disapproval of war crimes lol #i will say i dont think achilles’ rage and revenge is to the same level. he laments after patroclus died that it hurts more than he thought #because he would think losing a father or son to be more heartbreaking #but no it is the loss of the equal and confidant that hurts the most #but neoptolemus never knew his father. this isnt for his father’s personal sake it is for his legacy + where neoptolemus will end up with it #and therein lies the difference. they have that familial bond but no real connection #ask

[robertdelaunay]

so cheerful to know that i am not the only one who did not like the evolution ending

#fallen london tag #it was just so underwhelming & unsatisfying... #especially with how you can change the three ''naturalist's [abstract noun]'' qualities #like what was the point of everything else then...

[rosemaze-reveries]

updated my masterlistsss

#everything in my twst list is so old i can't look at them without dying i cannot do it #but i added a fellow section as posts get buried #im a little unsatisfied with my lack of polished writing 🤔 lately most of my posts are just me spitting out whatever comes to mind #thatll be my 2024 resolution i guess💃

[fitia]

Sometimes I think about Steven Universe Malachite discourse and like. wow, people were really killing each other over cartoons, and I witnessed it. And also picked a side.

#fitiaposting #Anyways my thoughts on it is that sometimes SU had a hard time balancing the consistency of its story with the messages it wanted to send #due to the nature of it being a children's cartoon with a very didactic narrative. #Malachite was possibly the worst example of it because at the end of the day I think it's stupid to pretend that the intention of Alone At #Sea wasn't that Jasper was supposed to be the ''abuser'' in that situation trying to manipulate her ''victim'' back into their toxic #relationship. That being said what we actually saw play out canonically was Lapis -- someone inarguably much more powerful than Jasper who #we've seen best a character Jasper LOST to with incredible ease. while nursing a cracked gem and waterbending the entirety of the Earth's #oceans at once -- imprisoning a gem out of spite and vengeance at the bottom of the ocean so she had someone to take her anger out on. #Lapis... pretty obviously had the power in that situation. Hell even admits in Alone at Sea that she enjoyed taking everything out Jasper. #The episode however give Jasper the Walking Red Flag framing you'd find in a ''how to spot an abuser'' PSA so we could have our ''Toxic #relationships are bad kids don't get back together with your shitty ex'' moment. #So it's a bit frustrating because what the writing wants you to ultimately take away from the situation kind of goes against what we all #canonically witnessed... and then it created a massive flame war between people who prioritized reading the Tone of the actual episode vs #people who cared about the consistency of what we'd actually seen depicted so far. #When I think the actual conclusion that should've been taken was ''Maybe Alone at Sea is a poorly written episode and Malachite got an #unsatisfying conclusion actually''

[celepeace]

Genuinely with the death of nintendo handheld low-cost games that came with the switch, as every continuing handheld series became a switch series and thus had a price increase, a lot of their most kid-friendly franchises have become more and more inaccessible to children, especially now that nintendo has decided to follow every other major console and has started pricing new games even higher.

And now that a lot of these series are so old and thus a lot of their fanbase has aged into adulthood, a lot of these series would benefit greatly from making some of the new entries more adult-oriented. But nintendo very stubbornly wants to keep their main franchises as kid-friendly as possible, sometimes severely restricting the potential of these series by not allowing them to explore things like more complex mechanics, higher difficulty, or darker topics that past entries have brushed over in favor of keeping the age rating low. Pokemon's core battle engine has been in want of an overhaul for years now, and Legends Arceus kind of did that but not wholly, for example.

This would be pretty understandable in the interest of keeping every entry of these series accessible to all age groups, but with inflating prices, who are these games even for anymore? A normal kid with your average allowance from their parents isn't going to be able to afford tears of the kingdom or even $60 pokemon games more often than not. Back when these games were $30-$40, sure, if they saved up, but now many families have even tighter budgets than ever due to the rising cost of living. Nintendo is pricing themselves out of their target audience while simultaneously leaving their adult fans who have been with them since childhood to feel neglected in favor of exclusively making games for today's children.

Obviously nintendo will always make sales because even though they make children's games, they're still fun as hell for a person of any age, and many kids will be able to afford their games once in a while, but it does feel like they're kind of... making their games for an audience that barely exists.

#i do hope the success of legends arceus leads gamefreak to branch out more into other formats beyond what you typically expect from pokemon #that game's massive success does show there is a market for more atypical pokemon games with higher difficulty #but that's not my main point. my point is that the video game industry is kind of hurtling towards unsustainability #it used to be that video games were made on shoestring budgets and coded by some of the most inventive people of the time #utilizing poor hardware so they were forced to optimize optimize optimize #and you could buy them for pretty reasonable prices #i mean. as it is with everything. the video game industry transforming into a competition between giants has been bad for product quality #at least indie game devs exist. carrying on the legacy of the first few decades of video game development #making games that are either for kids or for adults rather than trying to be equally appealing to all age groups #which is an impossible balance to strike without leaving one demographic or another unsatisfied #also not to be an old man but why are nintendo games so fucking easy nowadays #pokemon treats you like you don't know the block goes in the square hole #back in my day video games were hard and didn't hold your hand constantly and we LIKED it #are kids more stupid than they were 15 years ago? no. obviously kids aren't getting dumber #so why do games have to treat you like you're an idiot?