Ananta

ice water is awesome because you get more water in your water

you think youre out of water but then you check back in five minutes and woah! theres more water! the world is so beautiful

sometimes i have strong opinions but they're also so inane that halfway through writing a post i'll be like "yeah, this is Absolutely not worth the energy it's taking" and delete everything. but then the opinion is still in my head. and i still want to share it. so within five minutes i go "you know, i bet i can phrase it more succinctly this time" and anyway. you all see where this is going. sometimes i do this four times in a row before i give up on the specific inane opinion and instead write a vague post about the concept of opinions as if that'll satisfy the urge to post the entirety of my inner monologue online. may or may not be relevant to what you're reading right now. and now all our lives have been enriched. you're welcome

It does feel like Arknights is testing the waters with some concepts that would normally be more difficult to portray because of its status as a live service gacha. I think the game has always been fantastic at using the limitations of the format to its advantage in order to fit the story & themes they want to tell in a way that sometimes even strengthens its impact (I talked about this in regards to Civilight Eterna in the past) but it's feeling like they've reached the point where they're clashing with these limits head-on now. They clearly want to write more awful people even among the operators and we're in fact seeing an increase of them, but aside for Eblana they seem to be mostly giving that role to male welfares for now (do they want to see if they can still be popular enough before giving such roles to the operators that are actually going to be in the gacha? do they feel like they can never do that for the six stars so they're getting around it with the free units?) and similarly they're trying to circumvent the big taboo of not killing the playable characters by writing their potential deaths and giving closure to their character arcs through modules (there's at least two cases now and they were both incredible. they're even using these to give us a look into the far future which means they're also avoiding the restriction imposed by the status quo of the "present era" of the story). Hopefully they following this path because it's a lot more interesting - it's already been said in the past but imagine if we actually got an Operator dying of Oripathy, wouldn't it increase the stakes a lot more? Like, there's enough division between the gameplay and the story to do this. We're playing with past and alternate versions of operators already, many of them only joined Rhodes temporarily or were just visitors to the landship and are still in our roster long after they went their way, to keep playing with dead ops wouldn't be that different, it'd be perfectly doable. I think it's idealistic to expect them to actually do things like this (I'm sure the fanbase's reaction would be bad) but every step they take in that direction is a big plus.

nobody else doing it like me. particularly because the way i’m doing it is needlessly difficult

How the fuck did you make that last panel say so many things without using any words at all that’s so fucking cool.

better call saul has shown me that life doesn't stop at 30 or 40. I got rest of my years to irreparably damage the lives of those around me

Guy, walking into hell: Other Guy: Hey, that's hell you're walking into.

I appreciate you telling me but that's exactly the kind of good intentions that paved this road

Nothing quite instills a feeling of hopelessness like going "Fuuuuuck this fight is really hard" and then looking it up online to see if perhaps I'm missing something, and then finding another wayward soul from years in the past, echoing the same woes I have now. And the response from those that know the game better? "Yeah it's uh, hard. It's a boss fight. Just don't die?"