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@cozykaffe@snouts.online shoulder angel says thylacines, since australia's critters are fascinatingly unique

shoulder devil says homo neanderthalis just to watch everyone fuckin lose their shit

but the heart says ground sloths because they're just neat

so i'm spending the day before shadowbringers going and doing the story versions of the omega raids

it's going well, as you can see,

so i feel like we need to be making a lot of jokes about how with Shadowbringers, #ffxiv finally is a perfect example of a JRPG. consider this checklist of essential qualities:

✅ you can have gravity-and-hairgel defying hairdos

✅ you can have impractical and impossible clothing as daily wear

✅ you can go fishing (as hypothesized by Y. Taro, 2017)

✅ you can kill god

@Sapphicgiraffic@snouts.online i feel like there's setups here for thousands upon thousands of mean jokes along the lines of "ah yes, barely qualifies as beer sponsoring barely qualifies as e-sport" but i don't know enough about the overwatch league to make them

i mean i don't honestly think some nefarious shit is afoot*

just that, like, optics, dudes. maybe don't put the two topics quiiiiiite so close in ways that the pigs would want to sniff out. look up dad's army and say it's for your historical ww2 rp or something eh

*i like to believe against hope that any agents attempting this would at least be smart enough to use a fucking bit.ly link or someshit

"learn sabotage techniques to fight ICE!"

>link

>link goes to a pdf on cia.gov

listen i ain't got a computer running linux and i still got a facebook account but honey as stupid as i am about this here intrey-nets i'm thinkin' maybe we don't learn how to fight one bit of the guv'mint by goin' to sweetly ask another bit of the guv'mint how to do it so you mosey that link right along partner

how i can tell the evening pain meds have kicked the fuck in:

just spent 15 seconds staring at a cw wondering why somebody was being really mad at frozen water maybe it melted and watered down their diet coke i mean that's pretty bad??? before i went OH WAIT

@vanicpanic i'm gonna say that feels like a safe assumption but mostly my cishet ass is agog at just like. jesus christ even *I* know that dog don't hunt and they just unveiled this as this fantastic super move the community should be ever-so-grateful for and i'm just

i read the article about the stonewall opera and i went "surely they didn't" And Yet They Did

how.. do you even... get... it.... that... wrong......

this man is sizing you up to fuck you like he fucks his golf bag full of swords.

so the pictures showing the new alt costume for Zenos in Dissidia look extremely like this is a dating sim and Zenos just got introduced as a new potential love interest

not quite sure who Prince Sidon is yet but i'm starting to think he's being played by paper-shark-mask-wearing version of Luke Skywalker in the mass effect crossover i'm writing: good-hearted, enthusiastic, near-universally beloved, doesn't know what is going on but will cheer you on anyway, but DOES know JUST ENOUGH to be deeply concerned about what is happening

ok admittedly the second one is leaning heavy on my headcanons of Corvo skidding into the end of the game looking like he's gone through a meat grinder, but also being unwilling to let Emily leave his field of vision for the next decade, even if this results in the immediate aftermath of the end of the game being a whole lot of "mr attano please you're held together with prayers and duct tape will you at LEAST sit down" "Absolutely not."

the bad thing about this plotbunny is that breath of the wild is the first zelda game i've really played, so the characterization keeps going mushy

first we have a Princess Zelda by way of Hawkeye "what i really need is a nap while the world unfucks itself, but i'll settle for a drink and my dressing gown" Pierce off M*A*S*H, now i just realized i also have Link by way of low-chaos post-first-game Corvo "I am definitely not going to let the person I guard out of my line of sight" Attano

@monorail yeah! and i've seen that kinda music really panned as generic and forgettable when it pops up in video games.

i don't think it's BAD music by definition, just that it's more diffuse, and when diffuse music is there to help push along a mood, it's harder to single it out and remember it as Really Good.

but i'm also biased because all my fav movie music is also strongly strongly "hummable" and "coverable" too (insert star wars lietmotif-a-gogo), lol

(please imagine i made this into a proper parks and rec screenshot meme. thank you)

me: i have never been able to make a point in less than five million words in my entire life

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@monorail

tldr video game music good in part because good shit easy to remember, because real early computers only do so many beeps n' boops, so they only had room for the good beeps

but i took five million words to say that Whoops

@monorail but i think video game music, with that "melody focus via technology limitations" taste, definitely has a bit of an advantage here. (and i think it also got a good boost from early composers being, well, good enough to leap over that technological limitation and make it work. it's a bit "if you can make an evening gown out of a trash bag, you can probably make a really fucking good evening gown if we actually give you cloth this time". trial by fire! sink or swim! lol)

@monorail with people doing Frank Sinatra style lounge singer covers, heavy metal covers, hell it wouldn't surprise me if there's an operatic cover of it out there somewhere.

the good shit staying in the public consciousness, making people forget the crap, is definitely a selection bias that happens in a whole lot of media - i mean thank god i can listen to the classic rock station and not hear EVERY song that would have been on the radio in 1972, y'know? thank fuck for good shit only - >

@monorail so good video game music, being melody-heavy, is able to occupy the modern consciousness of fans and still be remembered for being good. the bad shit gets more easily forgotten.

a casual example is one of the favourite things i've found lately is a channel that does big band style covers of video game songs. if "still alive" was more complex, it probably would have been forgotten more easily. but since it's simple and catchy, it's still very much around >