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i missed too many discourse cycles and now you have to take them all at once, no chasing. no thoughtful lead-in or anything it's time to fuck around [hbomberguy off-key cacophanous kazoo music starts playin;g[

• i tried duskbloods during the network test and it was so incredibly confusing. i felt like i was being inducted into an MLM. fromsoft NEEDS to STOP throwing nouns at me there was literally like, 5PNS/m i almost screamed.^{1 2} i jumped around like hulk gif and it was ,awesome

• the ocarina of time remake is like, fine. i do understand why people were put off, i go back and forth. i wish there were bigger liberties taken with the gameplay (though i hear there might be some extra stuff?). i do think there's a little too much whinging for a series that is quite literally the only major gaming franchise to not have a consistent artstyle. let them try weird shit, i dunno! i'm open to it. um. [holds my paw up to my ear, seeming confounded] can you repeat that. the follicle count on link and zelda's eyelashes is w

• Read This If You Want To Get Mad At Me: tricking you into reading another zelda opinion: i wish, more than anything, they had not cast matt mercer as ganondorf again. it's not even necessarily because of how i feel about his acting³; no, it's because the absolute last thing i want for zelda (series) is for there to be a Ganondorf Guy or an Anyone Guy. to my understanding zelda (zelda) is not the same actress as BOTW/TOTK? either commit or get an all-new cast each time. imo.

• i don't play fire emblem,⁴ but my girlfriend is a fan and i've been watching her play fortune's weave. Babe Don't Read This You'll Get Mad At Me: i am sick of games doing the persona close-up dialogue portrait thing and not even getting it right. persona portraits are both practical tools and uniquely styled artworks - they're borne from the fact that you can't see shit on their little modeled faces in-game, so the portraits immerse you by allowing the characters to have detailed facial expressions complete with lip-syncing; especially in later iterations, they're drawn extravagantly to contribute a unique artistic flair which further draws your eye. all of this together means you understand immediately that during a given cutscene, the positions and poses of the models are like an establishing shot, and then the portraits are what you focus on to watch them talk as if it's a close-up. here's what fire emblem does: first, i can't tell if they're unique drawings? they don't have the same texturing as the in-scene models, but they look fairly identical to them so i'm tempted to say they literally just re-posed the 3D models for the portraits. either way, they don't stand out from the rest of the game. second: the way the portraits move... they just kindof wiggle and rotate. they're so unnaturally bouncy. third: their lips don't move. the in-scene models' lips are the ones that are moving. what!! why even have the portraits!!

• i'm turbo late to this one but i look away for like a few months and everyone hates clair obscur now i guess. not really but there's definitely a concerted backlash that's been building for some reason, and as a certified early skeptic of clair obscur i have to say, no one i see talk smack about this game is a) normal or b) even critical of it for a good reason. don't like the parry mechanic because they think it ruins the turn-based? the parrying is... like... the best part of the gameplay. and this complaint is over 20 years late, where is the smoke for paper mario. don't like that it won a bunch of awards? not even really a criticism of the game. i dunno it's just weird that now whenever clair obscur gets mentioned, there is literally no middle ground between "it's a masterpiece" and "it's dogshit". even more than most other things i see people have it out over. it is a good game! it also has flaws that i want to analyze and talk about! i am being forced to fight for my enemy (not really, being dramatic) because people just want to do culture wars forever

• RIP destiny 2. welcome back destiny 2

• looking forward to the new metroid game that was announced. it looks cool :)

okay that's all i think. please don't take this too seriously if i made you mad my opinion is actually hte opposite now. or let's have a chat about it! i wrote this in like an hour while having fun yelling on the computer. my smiling is boundless