Elfi, known bug enjoyer @elfi@pixie.town

I guess I'm just constantly frustrated and at odds with myself because, like

I know AT can and has completely sidestepped the gross pandering shit in its sidestories and light novels, that's honestly why they're some of my favourites about the series

But I also know that doesn't excuse what's in the games and will not until the staff single out and decry those responsible for adding it, not to mention the very loud and representative voices in the community that condone it every waking chance they get

yes, Aquagon, I'm talking about you, you've done a lot for the community but you could not have picked a worse hill to die on, so fuck you for enabling pedophilia

Me: ar tonelico bad, the games are emblematic of an endemic cultural issue with their gratuitous fanservice surrounding underage characters
Also me: engages with the lore but from outside of the context of the games anyway

Why am I like this, it's one thing to like something while acknowledging its faults but in this case the faults are very very gross

I know they were obviously tacked on and can be divorced from the concept but just... ugh it's still bad and I wish I could find something with similarly extensive and in-depth lore that I could engage with instead

By all known logic of the Exa-Pico setting, Lakra is essentially a demigoddess, with the demi- part contingent on genomization and linking with other IPDs.

What I'm saying is she could theoretically make Metafalica into a whole ass planet if Ar Ciel died

@ben similar vibe as metroid dread's speedrunning community allowing turbo buttons

@bunny_jane @Bugaboo I mean, go back as far as Nausicaa and the line between Hayao and Hidetaka blurs a little

@Bugaboo I mean I totally get it so I just look at all the trefoils and gilded statues in Anor Londo, nod solemnly, and go "mood, miyazaki, mood" before going in there and painting the marble red

@Runner Either that or it was the same designer as Guntron from PBF

@Runner Maybe the cylinder was Jesse's mod the whole time

God, he really does feel like the only one with his head on straight out of the bunch sometimes though, and that'd drive me to drink too

@cdmnky birb!!

@roboko@botsin.space fuck yea crisalys

@DarkOverord big same

I am trying to sleep, stop giving me shit to think about, especially shit that requires a lot of intense logical analysis to determine if it's a sound concept and not gobbledygook

Me at 3 AM:
Brain: the only beneficial use for the blockchain would be the documentation of encrypted multimedia hashes so blobs can be shared between mesh networks after the collapse of the greater internet, with additions propogated based on number of signatories
Me: jesse wtf are you talking about

@Maddyflen djfjfkgdd