thinking about the time when someone on here was trying to tell everyone to watch sports and someone added "even if you don't like it, it's a good excuse to be in a huge open-air stadium surrounded by screaming people eating overpriced hotdogs" and i have never felt a more profound sense of
shout out to beacon for being the only academy not in the middle of its city while also managing to have a defensible position on a cliffside.
the goal was to have the vaults & relics protected by warriors (at least ones in training) at all times, yet some people didn't get the memo and are closely surrounded by entire cities on top of that.
not that the relic necessarily is at beacon anyway, but at least it's acting as a perfect decoy.
i went to bed very late last night an had a very weird botw2 dream that i still remember and now im gonna make it your problem;
weirdly enough it was a supposedly "botw2 leak" and i remember i found the video and wanted to show it to my lil brother after realizing what i just saw, and it was in a VOD of some sort of gaming convention so i had to skip through streamers talking until i found it and this is how it went:
first there was a shot of naydra flying while being corrupted again, but this time they didnt seem to mind and just had some malice blobs stuck to them but the color was normal still
then there was a shot of link paragliding over a canyon of sorts, following naydra, he shot at them and then, somehow pulled out a spear while still in the air and threw it at them
but instead of being freed or sth naydra just went poof and disappeared
a cutscene played where the cam panned over to the lanayru mountain and its peak started to glow like when zelda contacts you in botw
next shot there was a weird sheikah tech contraption it looked like this (link was also there but not doing anything)
a cutscene with the thing in the middle starting to glow (link is there)
then it emitted a weird ball of lines that i read as electricity being restored (to where????) (also link is there)
and it expanded outward until it disappeared (link is gone)
next shot of two character kissing, i dont remember anything besides the bg being super lit up and them having different skin tones
then it changes to an interview with i guess like the maker of the game but it was just some guy in a suit in a gaming convention place but it seemed like he was in a rush like when ppl try to ask celebreties questions when they are on the red carped
and the only thing he said was ".. he just wants to fuk-" (somehow this was about ganondorf, idk how)
then it cut to various slides of promotional material that went super fast and i could only read and remember these
and, i kid you not, THIS ONE
then it just cut to a weird new reptile enemy that had bright yellow stripes and sat on one of the new iwaroks
It always makes me sad whenever stories with hopeful messages or lighthearted moments are sometimes dismissed as unintelligent or weaker than tragedies. Isn't joy and hope what makes a dark journey worthwhile? Not every story needs an unhappy ending to serve as a lesson.
I will forever be a fan of stories that say hey, maybe the world is a rough place, and it will always be this way, but you can make a difference with the people who matter to you. Even if no one else will know, even if no one else will remember, the ones you loved, and who loved you in return, will remember. People who are holding onto you, even at the end of everything else. People who remind you that new beginnings are born from the ashes.
My favorite stories will always end with love, hope, and the sun rising on the horizon after hell and high waters. The world can be so cruel, but we can choose not to be as individuals. Joy is as human as anger and sorrow. Joy is what we reach for when we are at our lowest, whether we realize it or not. We want what was lost back. I love stories where the characters reach the light at the end of the tunnel, emerge on the other side, and are allowed to heal. Even if they’ve done bad things, even if they aren’t perfect, isn’t that true of all of us?
I think I can genuinely say that ELO might be my all-time favorite band. Like I’ve said before, they’re one of like three bands I like where I can say I like almost 100% of their songs.
THE FUNGI IN SKY! OK, so first of all, they're shelf fungi, and second of all, they're polypores, which goes without saying because all (or most, I have no idea what's up with Oyster Mushrooms) shelf/bracket fungi have pores instead of gills! I don't know what this could possibly mean for the plot, but it's verry interesting!
Using this as an audio reference for the posts I'm making, but to summarize:
Yuri starts out mad.
Yuri tries to calm himself down with a deep breath to ask for details instead of going through it angry.
Flynn doesn't say "like a good knight" in the sense of putting himself down. He simply says "as a knight" (the tl here doesn't use that, but with that included it's basically along the lines of "even though I had doubts, as a knight, I was determined to follow my orders").
Once Yuri has answers he calms down significantly.
Yuri uses " 'ttaku", which is a shortened down version of "mattaku" (Yuri often shortens words and speaks very casually), which in this particular situation basically would mean "geez", or "good grief". In this manner, it's expressive of exasperation/frustration/etc.
Yuri never mentions that "Flynn told him what to do" like the dub does (because in fact Flynn did not ever tell Yuri what to do. He only gave Sodia and his other knights orders. He expressed his own desire to take responsibility, but never told Yuri and his friends what to do).
At this point you can tell the anger has gone out of him and that he's calmed down, now that Flynn is approaching this with admission and responsibility.
Sodia is asking that Flynn returns as soon as possible (I believe this was a general translation error).
Flynn's thank you to Yuri is tonally much more heartfelt.
Yuri's response and gratefulness at Flynn coming back to himself is tonally much more heartfelt, relieved and sincere.