listen, i love the new trend where there’s a quick video clip that gets edited to be a character getting fucking obliterated by one of the beams from the smash bros boss, i truly do, but you all need to be aware it’s literally just “docktor octagonapus blaaarggh” but for 2018
someone should edit dr octogonapus but instead of the lazer its the smash light
Extreme Affection, and curiosity about them as their own person… not much more to say on them that i haven’t said in other posts though! or that i’d like to say in future ones.
susie:
love that tough and rowdy girl! i gotta wonder how she got her reputation in the first place; i know that the kids talk about her seeming aggressive or unapproachable, so maybe she’s just shy and scary-looking, which lead to rumors. i think that feeds into her ‘your choices don’t matter’ mindset: she feels powerless because it doesn’t matter what she does, if people are only going to see a scary bully, then that’s what they’ll see. so she plays into the stereotype, because she might as well, right?
and that goes along with her aversion to being told she HAS to be a hero, and being reprimanded by ralsei for not being good enough. her short stint as an antagonist wasn’t a surprise at all honestly! lancer praised her for her insight and admired her for who she was without being scared of her.
all in all, she’s a biiiit of a cliche, but most things in UT/DR are at first glance. even without a full game to flesh her out, i think there’s enough here to make her compelling. she definitely feels like her own person and not just a Bully With A Secret Heart of Gold trope. and i think she’s especially compelling as a protagonist in a game where her general worldview at first matches one of the largest themes of the game, especially given she seems ready to believe in herself as someone who can choose her own path.
ralsei:
cute and likeable, of course! to me, the most interesting thing about ralsei is how, hm… hand-holdy he is i suppose? he really stresses the idea of not hurting anyone, that what we do and how we treat others matters. he sort of embodies everything that undertale tried to teach us. which isn’t totally unexpected i guess, but like… in undertale, it never felt patronizing, y’know? and that might’ve just been because the concept was relatively unique, and we saw all the time how our actions had positive or negative consequences. but here, we come in being told it doesn’t matter, even though ralsei insists that it does. it feels almost preachy coming from him! and it’s even framed as being too heavy-handed or patronizing because he’s the one who pushes susie to rebel and go to the villains’ side.
honestlyyy, ralsei feels a bit more like a caricature than his own person, to me - at least at the moment! he definitely has his own personality, but in the most benign sort of way. i don’t dislike him or anything, i think he’s very cute and has a lot of room to become more interesting. but at the moment he seems more like a foil than anything else, a sort of representation of the ideals of UT in the same way that susie embodies a lot of the ideals of DR initially.
Mgs dudebro fans being pissed at David Hayter for being a leftist is so fucking shortsighted I can’t imagine how you can even like a series with such a severe anti-war anti-millitary message while also Doing That
“solid snakes voice actor is an sjw” is an actual sentence I just read in a twitch chat, what year is it
“Solid snake is a sjw”- liquid snake, metal gear soild 4
I was in 1st/2nd grade grade when the big Pokémon boom of the late 90s-early 00s happened. It was HUGE. Every kid was into it and we’d watch the show and play pretend and collect the cards and bring our game boys to school to trade Pokémon during recess. I was lucky to have supportive parents, but I remember how teachers and other adults would scoff and say how tired they were of Pokémon, how annoying and juvenile it was and how they couldn’t wait for us to “get over it already”. I might have been young, but I still remember how much these kinds of comments bummed me out. Why in the world are we being mean to little kids who like Fortnite
Why are you comparing pokemon to fortnite???
Because… Fortnite is very popular amongst children at the moment? And there are adults who dismiss it in the same way other adults did when Pokémon was big, calling it stupid, saying the dances are annoying, how much they can’t wait for the “fad to be over”, etc. It’s pretty much the same scenario.
Fortnite has a lootbox system that is glorified gambling, and can cause patterns of addiction in even adult minds, and that is in fact its intended goal in order for the game to make money from microtransactions. That’s how all games with lootboxes function. That’s how they draw in their customer base and squeeze more money out of them.
Like, I don’t judge kids who enjoy Fortnite. My little cousin plays Fortnite.
But last week, my little cousin also stole his mother’s credit card and spent about a month’s salary on microtransactions without his parents’ knowledge.
Modern gaming has become vile and predatory in ways that we didn’t have to deal with as children.
And we shouldn’t be mean to children about this, but we should definitely be coming down on these companies like a pile of fucking bricks.
Delicious.
Finally, some PROPER FORTNITE CRITICISM
*cough pokemon trading cards cough* But for real though, if you think lootboxes make fortnight worse than peak pokemon youre either forgetting or intentionally omitting the existance of pokemon trading cards. My brother stole money from my dads wallet to buy some on more than one occasion.
