Can You Beelieve It?

-> Homoerotic friendships eat FREE.

-> Couples pay double charge.

-> Lesbians eat free. Single or coupled.

So you did a fish-in cycle?

“No, I’ve never cycled a tank and I’ve been in this hobby 50 years.”

also Max lost her Tumblr-ness… (2/2)

I KNOW!! The whole point of the Sacrifice AB ending was to choose Chloe over the town! So you lose the town and then just lose Chloe anyway? Because of DE, the entire moral dilemma of LiS1's ending is now gone and it totally undermines the ending that Dontnod wrote.

It is the most bizarre, frustrating character assassination to have Chloe, the character who was defined by her abandonment issues and subsequent loyalty to her loved ones, who tells Max word-for-word in the Sacrifice AB ending, "Max, I'll always be with you," to be the one to dump Max, and over a letter. That's not Chloe at all; it's characteristic of Rachel if nobody else. Chloe held a grudge for five years that Max unceremoniously left Chloe behind when she was grieving and never reached out, and then Chloe's the one who leaves Max with only a letter?? Why would Chloe ever want to hurt Max the exact same way Max and Rachel hurt her?

Then when you examine the letter, Max thinks "You always knew how to make every word count, did you?" Which is so odd because this letter just says a whole lot of nothing. Chloe says she "used" to think Max's power was cool, which we already know from the first game. Then Chloe claims Max is too stuck in the past... even though, in the first game, Max and Chloe spend most of the week just reminiscing on their shared childhood. They're both sentimental characters; in Dontnod's version of canon, it's left unclear whether Rachel reciprocated Chloe's feelings, and Rachel left Chloe for Frank because she still wanted an escape route, showing that Chloe still feels an attachment to Arcadia Bay and her past with Max despite her claims of wanting to leave it behind. Even in Deck Nine's BtS, Chloe expresses that she'd forgive Max and take her back in a heartbeat. So why the fuck is Chloe the one now so fixated on the future that she'd dump Max over it?? Also, the letter says nothing because it never gives any specific examples of what changed with them. How long has this issue been going on? What was the breaking point? Obviously Deck Nine couldn't be bothered to come up with that backstory so the letter never specifies. It's disappointing, lazy, and a total cop-out to avoid too many story branches.

A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written.

AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence.

Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same.

There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that.

I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it.

If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene...