it would be so awesome

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In middle school biology, we did an experiment. We were given yams, which we would sprout in cups of water. We then had to make hypotheses about how the yams would grow, based on descriptions of yam plants in our books, and make notes of our observations as they grew.

Here’s what was supposed to happen: we were supposed to see that the actual growth of the plant did not resemble our hypotheses. We were then supposed to figure out that these were, in fact, sweet potatoes.

What actually happened was that every single student in every single class lied in their notes so that their observations perfectly matched their hypotheses. See, everyone assumed the mismatch meant they had done something wrong in the process of growing the plant or that they had misunderstood the dichotomous key or the plant identification terminology. And, thanks to the wonders of a public school education, everyone assumed the wrong results would get us a failing grade. We were trying to pass. We didn’t want to get bitched out by the teacher. Curiosity, learning, science - that had nothing to do with why we were sitting in that classroom. So we all lied.

The teacher was furious. She tried to fail every student, but the administration stepped in and told her she wasn’t allowed to because a 100% fail rate is recognized as a failure of the teacher, not the class. It wasn’t even her fault, really, though her being a notorious hard-ass didn’t help. It was a failure of the entire educational system.

(loosely based on the tags dremenec left on one of my posts three days ago i don't know if this is what they meant, but when i read the tags A Lingering Image™ entered my head and i have not been able to get it out)

you see it. you see my vision

Rumi's is she can go into dark rooms

Zoey can climb through vents

Mira can scale knee-high walls

But the kicker is that you only get a limited time to do your tasks/puzzles

Because there's a "separation anxiety" bar that depletes while you leave the other two standing around

it's for your own safety, mira. you Need to wear the hats (+the shorter the wall the funnier it is that they can't cross it. i love videogame logic where the cool action hero inexplicably Cannot Jump)

Rumi is in the wrong genre entirely but she's living her best life

(+spinning around these tags from frog4278 in my mind. i am not immune to fashionista mira propaganda. by which i mean the s-aint-elmo fashionista mira posts were so powerful that they instantly made fashionista mira canon in my heart forever)

(They also tried chucking Zoey over the ankle-high walls but she splattered against the invisible barrier

(However this did lead them to unlock a secret move called fastball special where Rumi can launch Zoey directly into enemies for an instakill.

(It only works if she manages to hit them.

(Which has yet to happen, but they try))))

the existence of non-zoerumi contacts that mira can send embarrassing outfit pictures to implies that the other kpdh characters are also somewhere out there (i choose to believe everyone else is just chilling on a beach while they wander the haunted amusement park of ambiguous size)

+ bonus tags from frog4278

Look at my party dawg we're gonna die!!!!!

Playing as Mira is basically hard mode because you have two needy characters showing you stuff and accidentally inflicting fatal status effects (they're arguably more dangerous than the actual enemies)

(desc in alt if you can't read my handwriting)

And a sneak peak at the loading screen (featuring return of tricycle Zoey (I only have one joke (and the joke is "Zoey is short")))

+spinning around the vague idea of divorce mechanics in my head

and @dremenec I saw your post after I got off of work yesterday and it literally made my entire night I want you to know that. AND THE ANIMATION IS ADORABLE!!!!!!

Big fan of the implication that Marinette is some sort of curse that only YOU can see after recovering from Divorce and the others can't see her unless they also go through Divorce. Like the Social Bunny from Sims 2 where you just look insane

They're way too overencumbered to carry her, but there are ways and means, ways and means indeed...

Talk about a FLASH light ha ha ha ha

(this game is not beating the E for Everyone allegations

(but you know it's a good immersive sim when the answer to a puzzle is "induce gay thirst"

(if rumi and mira are divorced at this point the game flips a coin to decide if you are permanently softlocked or whether an unskippable reunion cutscene plays

(the cutscene has been banned in several countries for reports of inducing seizures

When Zoey gets divorced she becomes a magical girl to earn back her gfs (Zoey can also now see Marinette and she becomes Ladybug to help)

Meanwhile when Mira gets divorced this is what happens

Clothing company Patagonia is currently sueing drag queen Pattie Gonia for "irreparable” harm to their brand.

To be clear; Pattie named herself after the region in South America.

So Pattie is asking people to politely ask Patagonia to drop the lawsuit.

I'm extending the invitation to all of you, because sueing a drag queen for 'infringement' in the current political cultural landscape is vile. Especially a drag queen who has raised millions of dollars for non-profits, uses her platform to raise awareness for climate activism, and fully aligns with Patagonia's apparent climate-conscious mission statement.

They're claiming they're sueing for $1. They're actually asking her to stop using her name, and pay over $1 million in legal fees. They're straight up harassing her.

In contrast, drag queen Jan Sport has a Jansport bag line. It's that easy to just... work with a queen.

Anyway. Be respectful(ish), but feel free to be annoying on Patagnoia's socials, asking them to 'DROP THE LAWSUIT'

But brushing your teeth for 30 seconds is better than not brushing them at all when that 2 minutes seems exhausting.  Doing ten minutes of yoga is better than 10 minutes of sitting when 30 minutes of cardio sounds impossible.  Changing my clothes is good when a whole shower is impossible.  Standing on the porch for a few minutes is worth it after being in the house for three straight days because I don’t have the energy to go anywhere.

I posted this on the KPDH discord, but I figured I could repost it here too. Here's a list of links to various storyboards, early and/or scrapped scenes, and pitches & concepts shared by the various artists who worked on the movie.