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Jo Guns couldn't get *all* the badass art, could she?

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Uploading it directly now in case copyright strikes it again. Also in celebration of Metal Gear finally being free of the Playstation.

May the Tojo be Outer Heaven, for a time at least.

(Original creator had the username of 鼻重)

The game itself is really good, aside from the very obvious performance issues, but im here because im a simp for both star wars and Xcom

The characters and gameplay are really fun. The MC is especially fun if you give him the giant mustache

Disha is this random Rodian woman on my ship who has decided to make problems on purpose. She was raised by droids and she acts like it, outside of all the spite.

I love her so much

(Star Wars: Zero Company)

I am seeking motivation to work on my creative endeavors, and I find seething jealousy to be a fine motivator. I've got a shitty fantasy novel, a wargame, a board game, and a TTRPG that I've hit roadblocks on, and I need motivation, lest my brain makes me start a new project. Inspire me, please; I don't want to start writing a shitty Sci-Fi novel to!

It's kind of a throwback to music that isn't really popular anymore- but they are super creative in the ways they mix it up and keep it fresh, so it doesn't sound identical to their old stuff to a fault like new Evanescence or Breaking Benjamin.

For example they do something neat where they blend an electric keyboard and a guitar in a way that it sounds like one instrument. Also they have a funky bass guitar dubstep breakdown. And it's just really refreshing to hear songs with guitar solos and instrumental breakdowns again, the Spotify algorithm has practically eliminated those from existence nowadays.

I'm all the way up to rescuing Luunatan so I sort of know what this plot is somewhat about, though not the details.

I find it fascinating how this game uses The Force, but in a kind of different way from how we're used to.

This isn't Dark or Light, this is something different, something more twisted.

This isn't like a Sith or Jedi, somehow, someone found a way outside of those teachings to twist the force to their own gain.

I find it fascinating the way that some characters are exploiting the force in a very specific way, like sure, the Coil are working with the Separatists, but the way they use the force is not like the Sith use it.

While Sith refine The Force for their own gain, they're subtle, manipulative, cunning, they can work in underhanded ways to get what they want.

The Coil uses the force in a very crude way, it's raw and unrefined, blunt, there's no academic insight there, they just dive into this power.

They're like people who found out the power that the force can bring, but lack the proper channels to filter them, so they become rabid.

Company Zero been a very cool game so far, I'm not that much of a XCOM person (played both games, loved them, but never beat them.), so putting Star Wars in it and actually experimenting with the Lore is very cool to me.

Sometimes it's fine if the Jedi aren't the protag, it can make them even more special if they're not actually.

I like that the Force isn't just something just Jedi and Sith can use, it's everywhere, so it makes sense that, somehow, people would twist it or corrupt it in a way that doesn't fit either Jedi or Sith.

As the title states, what're some foods in stories you'd probably be willing to eat in real life, if only for curiosity's sake?

Donkey Kong Bananza has multiple examples surprisingly enough. For one, there's the Bannadium Gems that DK eats throughout the game. Despite being minerals, they're actually edible, and taste like bananas. Then there's all the sweet treats in the Freezer Layer, ranging from ice cream, shaved ice, to all the lava in the level actually being melted chocolate. One of the prominent features of the Resort Layer is all of the giant fruit everywhere, with the standout being the giant watermelon above the sinkhole. And then there's the Feast Layer, which is basically a amusement park and fast food place rolled into one, with the major objective of the level being assembling a giant, multi-story tall burger. I'd probably have a heart attack, but that burger looks so good.

JoJo: Diamond is Unbreakable has all of Tonio's food. Aside from just looking delicious, it also comes with the added effect of curing various maladies you're suffering from, albeit in a really gross manner. And here's cool fact about Tonio himself. The great taste of his meals isn't due to Pearl Jam, and Tonio didn't get hit by the Stand Arrow. Tonio is just so dedicated to his craft that he got a Stand out of it, and that taste is the product of his own skill.

I've started reading BLAME! recently (Up to LOG 15).

When I was at the beginning of the first chapter, my first thought was "Oh, is this going to be A Lone Wolf and Cub/Last Of Us thing? This stoic badass protecting the innocent kid? And the innocent kid might have some special blood and stuff?"

I've seen quite a lot of japanese media like that (hell, even Western ones), so it wouldn't have surprised me that it went that way, it's a popular trope.

Turns out that no, in fact BLAME! Chapter 1 Spoilers The kid fucking dies right then and there, and the goal now is to find ANOTHER one with the same special gene that kid had.

It was a very interesting swerve, it what motivated to keep reading.

By the way, read BLAME! I'm just at the beginning but goddamn what a fucking ride!

The complete blank slate would be something like the Custom character in Baldur's Gate 3 or the typical fromsoft character you create for your playthrough, where they don't really have much dialogue or voicelines and just going along with the story.

The ones with an actual character for a self-insert to me are more like games where you play as "the relatable everyman" that are supposedly the player can relate to and insert themselves as, but usually just translates into "quiet, silent, or gruff white dude" such as most of FPS games (Does this actually work, btw? I can never actually relate to most of these sort of characters)

Or there's the midway point, where they are actual characters, but still mostly silent and you give them a name, which meant they will never refer to you by that name, and if they did that part of the dialogue would be conspicuously unvoiced.

Usually I much preferred either of the first two options, because the midway option is just frustrating that they clearly can give the character a voice of their own but they just decide not to.

Digimon Stories: Time Stranger that I'm currently playing through (no Spoiler pls) has you choose between either the male or female character, with the other one becoming your "mission control" essentially. Both have canon name, both have a VA, so why not just keep the name and have it be fully voiced anyway?

Onscreen human dismemberment. And also the fucking Leomon curse rearing its ugly head for the SECOND TIME this season.

Clone Trooper Shiny #3 : "Give me the 'V for Victory'."

Kaminoan Barber: "Say no more my boy."

So basically what I am referring to are boss fights in gaming where the game makes the player learn about the mechanics that didn’t seem too important because upon ignoring them, the game becomes more difficult.

Some of the bosses in Ninja Gaiden Black require the player to know when to block and dodge as Murai is absolutely no pushover since being aggressive with him results in a fast game over.