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Janx_uwu

Janx_uwu

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  • Janx_uwu
    Me: Hey do you remember Austin and Ally
    My friend: Yeah I loved Austin and Ally
    White boy with a youtube channel: why you DON'T remember Austin and Ally (37 minute runtime)
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    do you guys hear 35 or 95?
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    My least favorite thing right now is when I'm just trying to look up a general Zelda thing and Google goes "HERE'S HOW TO FIND THE TOTALLY AWESOME SECRET REFERENCE IN TEARS OF THE KINGDOM"
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    My biggest problem with Tears of the Kingdom is the Sages' Vows. Yes, really. The abilities on their own are really cool: a horizontal wind gust (perfect for getting a contraption going); a one-time shield that you can throw off a la Leaf Shield (helps with some of the more annoying bosses); a fast spindash projectile with low cooldown (wasting durability on ore deposits no more!); and a precise and powerful lightning strike. The catch is that you have to walk up to one of the four hologram sages and press A, and then press A again, and then do the thing. Also the noises they make are annoying, and they make combat encounters even more mindless than before. I don't mind mindless combat, I'm a Sonic Heroes fan for crying out loud, but when the AI kills all the enemies for me before I can even get accquainted with what's going on, it's just really annoying. And trying to activate a Vow during combat? Lol. Don't even try. The Sages' Vows are all seemingly for the sake of giving Link companions to fight alongside, which I can admire for story reasons, but it just doesn't translate well to gameplay beyond small novelties. Still, you can turn them off so it's not a huge deal for me.

    The vows only make sense in three scenarios - gliding with Tulin and driving with Yunobo (since it's automatically on the ready), and Mineru's mech (you activate it same way as a horse which makes sense). Everything else though, I never use.

    My problems with the Vows were further amplified today when I got the Earthwake ability. Without a weapon equipped, hold the attack button and you'll send a small crater forward, and when you let go a rock spike comes out. I've found it perfect for dealing with low-health monsters like Stalkoblins and the little frog things in the Depths. No need to waste my weapons or arrows on them anymore, and it looks awesome! Now, imagine how much more fun that would be if it had a 7 second cooldown, and was activated by a green Master Kohga who follows you around and "helps" you fight monsters, but makes a really annoying sound every time you start or stop gliding or climbing a wall. Yeah...

    So why not just have the Sages' Vows abilities be more passive, like Earthwake or the Champion abilities of BotW? When you start aiming an arrow, Ruji appears alongside you and there's a prompt to press A - if you do, she activates the lightning field. When you're shielding, Sidon's shield appears, and whiffing a parry is what makes it fly forward. Tulin's is activated by holding X (same as Revali's), and maybe Yunobo's is activated upon performing a dash attack. And since you can turn off the Vows, none of these would be a nuisance. Also, just have the Sages float around Link instead of following him on foot, or just make them appear whenever there's a combat encounter or whenever one of their abilities is/can be activated.

    I know you can turn off the Vows but I don't think that means I shouldn't complain - it's still a missed opportunity, and one that I'm constantly thinking about whenever I have a Sage's Vow active in TotK.
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    Y'know, if the right people talk to the right higher-ups, I think Disney doing a "The Guy Who Shot Babmi's Mom" D+ movie/series is totally a possibility, especially if it's pitched as a Captain Rainbow type deal where it's filled to the brim with Disney "rejects". Companies love to be like "we don't shy away from our faults, lol!" and instead of exploitation and stuff, the faults is like, Companion Character That Actively Made The Movie Worse, and, Movie That Was Made Worse By Companion Character II: Squiglo's Revenge (direct to VHS)
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    I may have said this before, but unless a game just has super stiff controls, I don't think there's a platformer that has bad movement. For example, after I beat Sonic Heroes and found it to be the most fun to control of any of the 3D Sonics, I was surprised that most people thought it had awful physics and that was the main criticism of the game. I think it's because I just liked learning the game's quirks and taking advantage of them. For example, you can buffer a swap to another character while in midair even though you won't be able to until you hit the ground. When you do, you'll have all the momentum you built up as the previous character. So it's really fun to drop down as Sonic with all the speed you could want, buffer a swap to Tails, and then instantly get a nitro boost with great maneuverability and extra jumps as soon as I hit the ground. I also had to be super careful when using the Power attacks near ledges, so sometimes if there was a key there, I'd have to position myself very carefully and pick a god, pray, and press B. I know that doesn't sound fun, but it really is! I also felt this way about the dash in Mighty No. 9 (although I didn't like the artstyle very much so that's why I stopped playing it), Shadow The Hedgehog (it's like ice skating!), and...well I have not played that many bad platformers but I'll try to get around to some more.

    I do not, however, apply this logic to two things, pre-slide Mega Man and Sonic '06/Frontiers. The former I think is fine because you can get fun out of trying to run at your set pace throughout the whole level, so even though the movement is boring it's not something I actually think about at all, the level design is engaging enough. '06 and Frontiers are exceptions to the "bad controls" thing in the opposite direction to Mega Man 1&2, because their movement is so stiff and so many parts of it feel like they're actively trying to take away player freedom unless you know speedrun techniques, and I do not think you should have to be good at speedrun techniques to enjoy a game to the full extent (lookin' at you Celeste DLC).
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    I do think there is a lot of truth to "gen z is too offended by everything!", exaggerated as it is, and "offended" might not be the right word. More like "overcomplicates things too much" or "overexaggerates". For example, I struggle with imposter syndrome, so as a quick explanation, basically I oftentimes do not feel like myself (i.e. overthinking it and being like "what would I do in this situation? idk" and question my worth to my friends. So I saw an article yesterday reccommended to me on the Firefox home page and it was something like "The Real Reason Behind Your Imposter Syndrome." And I was like "oh sweet, maybe whatever's in here could help me." And then the article proceeded to tell me that imposter syndrome was nothing more than a mysogynistic scheme meant to keep women out of the workforce and I can't let those dirty white men tell me what to do, I won't let their Imposter-Effect_Inator affect me!...except I am a white man. So what the hell does that mean for my imposter syndrome? The logic in the article wasn't not sound, they got from point A to B with the word origin and how it's evolved over the years, Maybe it would've been better if they worded it differently? Like, imposter syndrome had mysogynistic origins but now is an actual psychological term that helps plenty of men and women get the help they need.
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    I do think a huge part of the problem here has to do with journalism and clickbait.

    "The Real Reason Behind Your Imposter Syndrome" is much more attention grabbing as a title then "The Reason Imposter Syndrome is So Common in Women". But it's also very problematic since it treats everyone as the same.
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    The influx of Eventide-type shrines in TotK probably means plenty of people agree with me on this already, but I think that BotW type Zelda is at its best when its a survival game. When the combat encounters themselves are the puzzles - and I don't just mean "when you fight a X, do Y", I mean like how in one of the shrines you can choose to snipe all the constructs after sneakstriking the first one for his arrows, you can run them all over in a tiny car, you can run them all over in a big car, you can strap some spikes to the front of your car and then run them all over, you can go up to where the Wing is and use it to rain down Flame Emitter fire from above, etc. Or like Master Trial stuff where you try to save certain weapons, arrows, and meals for certain enemies you know you'll be fighting later, because you died to them earlier thanks to poor resource management.

    What I like about TotK is that it has more of that stuff. It knows that there should be a good balance between feeling like an unstoppable badass and feeling like an underdog scavenger. The progression and reward of unlocking stronger and stronger monster parts only adds to that. I still wish the whole game was a survival open-world type deal, but I definitely see where the devs wanted to take this, I respect it, and besides, game's always fun and I never think about this stuff while playing it so idek why I typed all this
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    If there's one thing that the Spiderverse 2 soundtrack has made me realize, it is that I am not really a fan of Metro Boomin'. His stuff sounded great as background music in the movie, but I'm really trying to enjoy it outside of that and I just really am not. Which is unfortunate because the lyrics being 50% Spider-Man references is very silly and enjoyable.
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    HOLY CRAP YOU GUYS
    so i decided i wanted the master sword so "hey i'll just go see if the lost woods will kick me out or not" so i went there and the fog came so i was like "oh ok yeah" i thought maybe the fog would be gone like how you didn't need flame resistent armor for most of Eldin anymore. So anyways I was like "I'm gonna get out of this fog before it gets me and I'm gonna glide to this nearby island". seems innocent enough right? WRONG. Like ten seconds after I land a bunch of eye creature guys come out of the ground and scary music plays and the sky goes red like it's a Blood Moon only ten times worse, the eye hand guys like start f***in me up but eventually I realize bomb arrows are super effective so I make it out and I'm like "oh ok thank God that's over."
    AND THEN A BOSS HEALTH BAR APPEARS THAT SAYS "PHANTOM GANON"?????????!!!!!!!!
    SO HE KILLS ME AND I RETRY THE WHOLE THING OH YEAH AND GLOOM IS A PART OF THIS FIGHT TOO
    I got some OP yet daunting weapons out of it (a bow that does more damage the more max hearts you have and a 40 damage spear that takes away your hearts) but like, hoooly ****. That was so scary. And I feel like I'm missing so much context for it.
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    There are many reasons that crossdressing is not something I can do under normal circumstances. For starters, I don't like the...reverse stigma (just made that word up) MtF crossdressing has? Like as soon as a guy wears girl clothes or makeup, doesn't matter if he looks good or anything, he is automatically praised for it. "yes slay" without even evaluating the outfit. I don't like that - I want people to judge my looks fairly and not based on anything like "yes so proud of his bravery" or whatever. Secondly, it would ruin my relationship with my parents because they would think it's weird. Kinda simple, but yeah, I love my parents and that risking that relationship isn't worth feeling a little prettier than usual. And finally, I just don't have any feminine stuff of my own and I feel bad asking to borrow my sister's mascara or something. Wearing makeup or dresses is something I love to do, but am only able to do so on like, April Fools' or some other event where I can pretend its for a joke.

    All of this is to say that I'm never taking the Cece hat off
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    I went to my first convention a while ago and it was a bit miserable but the experience was funny now looking back on it.


    • There weren't any actors of note beyond anime stuff. The only ones I recognized were Mewtwo's and Nappa's, and I only knew the latter because of friends in the DBZ fandom. One of the guys was some kid who was in like two scenes from Cobra Kai a couple seasons ago. Do love that show, though.
    • I was going to go as Sonichu (Pikachu onesy + Sonic hat) but couldn't find the Sonic hat in time, so just went Pika.
    • My friends were also there as Danganronpa characters so I stuck out in the group pretty well lol.
    • There was a Smash tournament, but I didn't know until after signing up (20 dollar fee btw, never seen that at a local before) that there were only two setups. So it took about five hours and I had no way of knowing if it was my turn or not.
    • Having to stay in the Smash room meant that one, my friends either stuck around or did something else (not much though since there were just about a hundred vendors and a shonen movie room apart from the Smash stuff), and two, I had to stay in the same room as A) a bunch of guys from my locals who are unfunny and smelly, and B) this really creepy guy.
    • Speaking of him, he tried to play pattycake with me and my best friend. Like straight up. Was super unnerving. Wouldn't speak a word either. He started getting up in some 6-year old girl's face and that's when the security guys took him outside and made him take his furry mask off. He wasn't too cocky after that.
    • I lost to a Wii Fit I've beaten every time we've fought before.
    • Was out $50 bucks by the end of it, but I did get a handmade Luma plushie and some D&D dice - although I was informed the following week that I'd been kicked from the campaign due to poor communication. Because I didn't respond to a guy's Discord message within 8 hours. My parents lock my phone almost all day btw. So that kinda sucked.
    • I will try to go to more cons in the future though. The friend I mentioned above told me that that was one of the worst ones she'd been to, but since it was so small-scale it was an alright one start off with.
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    TBH I think games are just going to eventually evolve to a point (if they haven't already) where you need to take a look at the developer's history, statements made on the game so far, and other games of that nature to determine which ones will be good investments even after you purchase it, now that devs are so comfy with the whole "release now, improve later" thing. So like fighting games are gonna be a safe bet as compared to like, whatever Redfall was trying to be.
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    Didn’t Reggie say that he was a fan of the Mother 3 fan translation? Why the hell is he harassing some kid for piracy?
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    For context, my nightstand is made up of two milk crates stacked on top of each other, filled with books, McDonald's toys, and other oddities (as well as my alarm clock on top so I can reach it).

    Had a weird ass dream last night where me, my dad and my sister were waiting in line at a school for something. This little kid in front of us started to beat up a girl his age, and when I realized what was going on I lunged at him and tried to rip him off of her. But I woke up from the dream a little bit before I got to the kid, and it turned out I was actually lunging with the same anger that I had in the dream. So that's how I ended up spending 10 minutes picking half of my nightstand back up.
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