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May. 31st, 2025 12:55 amIf you've ignored all my other Magia Record posts, I at least want you to see one of the game's ultimate moves. This game's art style for ultimates is, shall we say, different from most gacha.
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May. 14th, 2025 04:02 pmToday in “Holy crap this is awesome”: Persona 5, Joker/Black Mask.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/45620680
https://archiveofourown.org/works/45620680
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Sep. 18th, 2024 12:46 pmI’m reading a book called Hell Followed With Us, and I want to reproduce a very good paragraph.
I make it to the mouth of the bridge. I don’t stop, just dive between the wreckage of cars choking the entrance. The bridge shines silver, suspension towers dangling thick metal wires from bank to bank. It belongs to the Angels now. A banner flutters high above me: GOD LOVES YOU. Corpses dangle from the wires, yellow-pink organs hanging from their stomachs to obscure their nakedness, like Adam and Eve ashamed of their bodies.
I make it to the mouth of the bridge. I don’t stop, just dive between the wreckage of cars choking the entrance. The bridge shines silver, suspension towers dangling thick metal wires from bank to bank. It belongs to the Angels now. A banner flutters high above me: GOD LOVES YOU. Corpses dangle from the wires, yellow-pink organs hanging from their stomachs to obscure their nakedness, like Adam and Eve ashamed of their bodies.
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Apr. 22nd, 2022 01:00 amPeople talk about the awful shit you seen on porn sites, but the worst stuff I ever saw was on Snopes. In retrospect, kid-me really shouldn’t have checked that article about bear bites. Especially since the “false” pic was a shotgun wound.
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Dec. 24th, 2021 10:42 amAt least in the human campaign, I feel like Eastern Exorcist isn’t enough of a unified narrative to justify all the horrible shit it shows you.
Story-wise, you start by fighting the Mandrill and seeing him kill your friends. Then you go to two villages that have nothing to do with the Mandrill. Then you go back and fight the Mandrill again. Other than giving you an opportunity to meet the fox spirit again, the two villages are essentially filler.
Ideas-wise, the Mandrill is the filler. You go to two villages that doomed themselves because they decided to do horrible shit to their own citizens, and you see in detail how every decision made things worse. Then you fight the Mandrill, whose reason for mass murder is just “unlimited POWAH!“ Then you finish off with the traitor, whose motives I still don’t understand. There was potentially some way to connect the traitor to all the other humans who turned out to be worse than the spirits, and make an overarching point in some fashion, but he’s done and dusted too quick for any examination.
You could say I’m being too harsh on the story development in a beat-em-up. But Double Dragon never showed me eye-gouging. I think you have to earn that in some fashion.
Story-wise, you start by fighting the Mandrill and seeing him kill your friends. Then you go to two villages that have nothing to do with the Mandrill. Then you go back and fight the Mandrill again. Other than giving you an opportunity to meet the fox spirit again, the two villages are essentially filler.
Ideas-wise, the Mandrill is the filler. You go to two villages that doomed themselves because they decided to do horrible shit to their own citizens, and you see in detail how every decision made things worse. Then you fight the Mandrill, whose reason for mass murder is just “unlimited POWAH!“ Then you finish off with the traitor, whose motives I still don’t understand. There was potentially some way to connect the traitor to all the other humans who turned out to be worse than the spirits, and make an overarching point in some fashion, but he’s done and dusted too quick for any examination.
You could say I’m being too harsh on the story development in a beat-em-up. But Double Dragon never showed me eye-gouging. I think you have to earn that in some fashion.
