Heyyy! I also did speech therapy! Because apparently there was something wrong with my ears as a kid so I heard everything wrong so I repeated everything wrong.
I basically had my own language and per a report I was 95% unintelligible!
Master Chief just lost his virginity in the halo tv series
And then there’s Cortana, Chief’s AI companion, who kinda just…stands there, watching on with a mixture of emotions that are entirely indiscernible due to the uncanny valley.
As far as sex scenes go, it’s incredibly tame too, relying more on implication than anything else. Chief and Makee kiss a bit. Smash cut, then they’re naked in a bed, appearing to have already done the deed. It’s about as steamy as the iconic Cold Storage multiplayer map. (Side note: 343, please port that one into Halo Infinite.)
Master Chief just lost his virginity in the halo tv series
And then there’s Cortana, Chief’s AI companion, who kinda just…stands there, watching on with a mixture of emotions that are entirely indiscernible due to the uncanny valley.
As far as sex scenes go, it’s incredibly tame too, relying more on implication than anything else. Chief and Makee kiss a bit. Smash cut, then they’re naked in a bed, appearing to have already done the deed. It’s about as steamy as the iconic Cold Storage multiplayer map. (Side note: 343, please port that one into Halo Infinite.)
add me to the list of 'people who finished Citizen Sleeper'
Like a lot of people above, I left with Lem and Mina as the first ending, and that was basically just what I aimed for, there were a lot of side quests that I hadn't finished yet, but that seemed fine to me, my job was to help these particular people get somewhere better and so that's what I was doing.
Got to credits, hit 'continue', and realised that I guess I can change my mind after all, so from there I went through both Gardener endings and both Bliss endings and I've also done all the side quests by now, and like a couple of people, felt like it was just fine to stick around on the station and help out. The ending of the Yatagan storyline is very much 'there's people here and this is where I belong', as is the ending of the improve-the-bar storyline, or the Emphis storyline, they're all about the station being a place where life is happening and there are people, which felt cozy and like a place I wanted to stay.
So while there's no new story that the game's going to give me to unlock any more, it feels like I can just hang out and help at the bar / help repair ships / help on the farms, etc, and I'm fairly sure things would crop up even if the game isn't going to explicitly tell me about it.
Also, if I leave the station/become a plant for one of the 'big' endings, who would keep giving crackers to the cat?
I get it in the context of video-games but I can totally think of other ways to organize this information
Treating other people as deviations from an imagined zero point is how racism and sexism and other -isms operate
For example, white people don't really think about whiteness in the same way they think about other races, they think about whiteness as the absence of race
i don't have an accent
you're Canadian, yes you do
only us Americans have no accent
No anglophone has an accent. Your vocabulary doesn't use them.
Somebody on Twitter made this as a joke but I legitimately think that Goku would score as an incredibly diverse character on the Actiblizz phrenology metrics; his multiple ages, weird culture, being dumb as bricks, and whatever sexuality you parse for "doesn't know what kissing is but has 3 kids is" really pump those numbers. Make of that what you will.
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I ate an engineer
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there's like, so much wrong with the Blizzactivision DEI septagram
but my dudes I am begging
BEGGING
you to stop taking qualitative data, arbitrarily assigning it a number, and calling it quantitative
it's fucking insulting
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there's like, so much wrong with the Blizzactivision DEI septagram
but my dudes I am begging
BEGGING
you to stop taking qualitative data, arbitrarily assigning it a number, and calling it quantitative
it's fucking insulting
but
number go up
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Zxerolfor the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't doso i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered Userregular
edited May 2022
Looks like they updated the blog post attempting to clarify things, and they also removed all the images people were roasting them all and completely eliding mentions of Overwatch and Call of Duty.
We recently shared a blog post that raised questions about how we approach diversity in our games. While the prototype tool has been tested internally, it is not in active use. Our dev teams have always and will continue to drive in-game content.
We have updated the post to clarify the purpose of this tool, which is one small component of our broader DE&I efforts and is not intended to be a replacement for diverse perspectives. We regret any offense that the original post may have caused.
Saying that it's not being used directly contradicts the blog's assertion they intend to roll it out further in the company, but sure, I believe you.
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I usually wouldn't link DYKG but they've done some honest to goodness investigative journalism on this one, and more stories about what a fucking wreck Konami is are always entertaining
I'm enjoying Final Fantasy X a lot, but even so, the thing about these games that often takes me out of the moment is when absolutely nonsensical shit is presented to the main characters and nobody slows down to ask that the other person talk like a normal human being
I'm enjoying Final Fantasy X a lot, but even so, the thing about these games that often takes me out of the moment is when absolutely nonsensical shit is presented to the main characters and nobody slows down to ask that the other person talk like a normal human being
Dunno what you mean, now let's get married because your purpose is to help the nation and marrying me will help [citation needed] the nation therefore you are compelled to marry me because choice is an illusion.
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I'm enjoying Final Fantasy X a lot, but even so, the thing about these games that often takes me out of the moment is when absolutely nonsensical shit is presented to the main characters and nobody slows down to ask that the other person talk like a normal human being
Dunno what you mean, now let's get married because your purpose is to help the nation and marrying me will help [citation needed] the nation therefore you are compelled to marry me because choice is an illusion.
said quest is about giving your pail of hellworm milk to a fromagiere so it can age into a wheel of hellworm cheese
what kind of wine do you pair with that
one of the wines of hell probably, i.e. one made out of poisonous mushrooms which are incredibly toxic to humans but which give devils a delightful buzz
I'm enjoying Final Fantasy X a lot, but even so, the thing about these games that often takes me out of the moment is when absolutely nonsensical shit is presented to the main characters and nobody slows down to ask that the other person talk like a normal human being
As batshit as a lot of the events of FF10 are, one of the reasons it's my favorite, as that it's basically all signposted throughout the game and is consistent with the established metaphysics of the setting.
It's not just, And Now: The Moon, For Some Reason.
Also Tidus at least often questions things, being the outsider. One of my favorite moments in the game is that time in the early chapters when Lulu, unprompted, explains something to him, and he's like "Ahah! You believe me that I came from Zanarkand and don't know anything!"
And her response is some thing like "Well I believe you don't know anything."
The worst bit about FFX for me is Tidus father and that whole naff and weirdly shoehorned thing. He’s a complete monstrous son of a bitch and it’s just hand waved away with “but ‘‘twas all in the name of love!”
I don’t know if it’s lost in translation or what, but it felt super weird and off. He’s not shown as a distant or aloof dad, he’s straight up a cruel prick to tidus, so the whole resolution there doesn’t work
Like I don't know why Tidus doesn't go to Auron and say hey, they're telling me Zanarkand was destroyed a thousand years ago but I was there WITH YOU like 3 days ago, fucking explain that to me
That Godzilla v Kong mode in Warzone is surprisingly fun btw. There's something very amusing about looking down at the whole island deciding where to jump and seeing two kaiju running around.
I mean you can't win, because they're kaiju and you're a dude with a gun, but you get Monarch intel for hitting them and that gets you bonuses + eventually a thingy that lets you get the kaiju to target people. And occasionally there's a titan frenzy and if you hit them enough during that you stagger them (and get further bonuses).
It's very charming when you can look around and see people shooting at the kaiju from all around the map before someone remembers about the battle royale part and starts murdering.
After collecting the Cyber Elf Dable, Ciel comments that, "This elf is new to me."
I'm always struck by this message, because it's so out of place. Ciel rarely talks during missions, and there's not really anything special about Dable. I mean, the elf is among the most complicated to collect, being the reward for winning a relatively difficult, unacknowledged shooting gallery. I went hunting the Japanese text, and it's about the same; my napkin translation would be, "That elf. This is the first time I've seen it"
It would be less curious if
a) the message were openly congratulatory; or
b) there was some follow-up
is there some connection that I'm missing? Is it just a weird beat?
I vaguely remember Auron being unhelpful and evasive about it for no reason
He has a reason, big ffx spoilers
he probably doesn't want to explain to tidus that 1) auron is a ghost and 2) tidus isn't a real person and is more like a conjured memory of a dead city
He knows tidus is going to find out these things so his strategy is to feed him details piecemeal in order to build him up for the reveal
This isn't necessarily satisfying for players on moment to moment basis but I think it works taken as a whole
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I basically had my own language and per a report I was 95% unintelligible!
But how did Superman Master Chief avoid destroying her with his super strength
Why would he ever need to when the suit jacks him off constantly?
Got to credits, hit 'continue', and realised that I guess I can change my mind after all, so from there I went through both Gardener endings and both Bliss endings and I've also done all the side quests by now, and like a couple of people, felt like it was just fine to stick around on the station and help out. The ending of the Yatagan storyline is very much 'there's people here and this is where I belong', as is the ending of the improve-the-bar storyline, or the Emphis storyline, they're all about the station being a place where life is happening and there are people, which felt cozy and like a place I wanted to stay.
So while there's no new story that the game's going to give me to unlock any more, it feels like I can just hang out and help at the bar / help repair ships / help on the farms, etc, and I'm fairly sure things would crop up even if the game isn't going to explicitly tell me about it.
Also, if I leave the station/become a plant for one of the 'big' endings, who would keep giving crackers to the cat?
...touché.
Somebody on Twitter made this as a joke but I legitimately think that Goku would score as an incredibly diverse character on the Actiblizz phrenology metrics; his multiple ages, weird culture, being dumb as bricks, and whatever sexuality you parse for "doesn't know what kissing is but has 3 kids is" really pump those numbers. Make of that what you will.
but my dudes I am begging
BEGGING
you to stop taking qualitative data, arbitrarily assigning it a number, and calling it quantitative
it's fucking insulting
but
number go up
And they also tweeted this
Saying that it's not being used directly contradicts the blog's assertion they intend to roll it out further in the company, but sure, I believe you.
I usually wouldn't link DYKG but they've done some honest to goodness investigative journalism on this one, and more stories about what a fucking wreck Konami is are always entertaining
It was very good! Got to all endings and closed all storylines in seventy cycles.
Ok now let's play underwater basketball
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said quest is about giving your pail of hellworm milk to a fromagiere so it can age into a wheel of hellworm cheese
what kind of wine do you pair with that
The hellworm is just delightfully trolling from top to bottom.
It was introduced at an astronomical cost, in a currency that most people hadn't stockpiled much of.
So end game players spent months farming to buy it.
And immediately afterward, they get the seller informing them they can ride the worm if they bought a saddle for another ridiculous sum.
one of the wines of hell probably, i.e. one made out of poisonous mushrooms which are incredibly toxic to humans but which give devils a delightful buzz
As batshit as a lot of the events of FF10 are, one of the reasons it's my favorite, as that it's basically all signposted throughout the game and is consistent with the established metaphysics of the setting.
It's not just, And Now: The Moon, For Some Reason.
Also Tidus at least often questions things, being the outsider. One of my favorite moments in the game is that time in the early chapters when Lulu, unprompted, explains something to him, and he's like "Ahah! You believe me that I came from Zanarkand and don't know anything!"
And her response is some thing like "Well I believe you don't know anything."
I don’t know if it’s lost in translation or what, but it felt super weird and off. He’s not shown as a distant or aloof dad, he’s straight up a cruel prick to tidus, so the whole resolution there doesn’t work
It's the first thing I'd be asking!!!
It's very charming when you can look around and see people shooting at the kaiju from all around the map before someone remembers about the battle royale part and starts murdering.
After collecting the Cyber Elf Dable, Ciel comments that, "This elf is new to me."
I'm always struck by this message, because it's so out of place. Ciel rarely talks during missions, and there's not really anything special about Dable. I mean, the elf is among the most complicated to collect, being the reward for winning a relatively difficult, unacknowledged shooting gallery. I went hunting the Japanese text, and it's about the same; my napkin translation would be, "That elf. This is the first time I've seen it"
It would be less curious if
a) the message were openly congratulatory; or
b) there was some follow-up
is there some connection that I'm missing? Is it just a weird beat?
He has a reason, big ffx spoilers
He knows tidus is going to find out these things so his strategy is to feed him details piecemeal in order to build him up for the reveal
This isn't necessarily satisfying for players on moment to moment basis but I think it works taken as a whole
the idea of Auron spending a couple of weeks with a recording sphere trying different takes of that is very amusing to me
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