The Moose

And there are plenty of video games that pull this.

So... This one isn't going to be very nice.

I have a fun acronym now, its called, GAD. It stands for Graphics / Graphical Design, Animation, Dialogue. GAD's specific intent is a surface level analysis on the intitial presentation and operation on a video game. It doesn't go into story, it doesn't go into character, its simply, the initial thing you run into when you go through it the first time.

( If it was a movie, it'd be VAD. Visuals-Animation/Actor-Dialogue).

And the GAD problems i'm having can be split up thusly.

At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.

At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.

“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.

The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.

I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.

I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.

I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht. 

i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.

as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.

disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.

at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.

i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.

i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.

(and little do you know that NIX THAT CUTE AXOLOTL STITCH ALIEN WAS VOICED BY DEE BRADLEY BAKER--the creatURE IS A CLONE TROOPER THE ENTIRE TIME. YOU HAVE BEEN BAMBOOZLED! )

But yeah currently playing it (I also stream through youtube to a friend while at it even though I'm not very good at it xD)

The game certainly has a lot of good ideas, me research hooks took one look at ND-5 and went "That is fucking genius, lemme research this".

(and little do you know that NIX THAT CUTE AXOLOTL STITCH ALIEN WAS VOICED BY DEE BRADLEY BAKER--the creatURE IS A CLONE TROOPER THE ENTIRE TIME. YOU HAVE BEEN BAMBOOZLED! )

But yeah currently playing it (I also stream through youtube to a friend while at it even though I'm not very good at it xD)

To take example.

Like, for example;

There was a three episode arc in TCWs, where Obiwan was "killed" and pronounced "dead". Anakin was in angry anguish the entire time. It was both milked for all its worth, weighed heavy on all the characters involved, and contributed to Anakin's slow decent into darkness.

In TBB, Fives, Echo's batchmate and both former characters of TCWs, is mentioned as dead in a one off line and then never again.

Actual writing would've spun more drama on that, made it a whole arc, or even apart of Echo's struggle as a character.

In "Empire Strikes Back", one of the greatest most refrenced twists of all time occured. "Luke, I am your Father". The horrible evil wizard knight that is Darth Vader, was in reality, the father that Luke had wanted to emulate the whole time.

It's so famous, its down right cliche to copy it today, and is often parodied for it. Many people have performed the twist, however, to great success when its set up right (Earthbound, for example--I won't spoil it for you).

in TBB, Omega is revealed to be a force sensitive naturally aging child... and then nothing else is expanded on.

Emerie Karr is heavily implied to be the Fifth Enhanced Clone... And nothing is expanded on.

Tech is implied to have SURVIVED! and then nothing is expanded on.

The CHIPS, are dropped. (Never gonna give that up, never gonna let that down, never gonna turn around and desert you---)

Crosshair--somehow survived and left Kamino. Fucking how, man, did you grow a space ship down there?

All an amazing series of twists that go fucking nowhere except to have a shock value effect, and by the end, nothing is fullfilling, nothing is satisfying, and you generally just feel relief that the nightmare is over and we can pass the fuck out.

TCWs, expands on Jedi Culture a bit more. Expands on Jedi characters that were otherwise one scene one-shots in the films, allowing a mingling of books and comics on screen.

TBB... Doesn't do shit for the clones except you get to watch them die a whole lot. Character culture is next to non-existant. No expansion on clones from the prior series. No expansion on what kind of inner workings clones go through behind closed doors and away from Jedi and Public.

What little drama we get is wholesale Empire consumed, (because there are no conflicts that dont' involve Empire BAD or Omega SPECIAL), and just a lot of heavy handed self pitying that gets so fucking old after the first fifteen seconds.

But I’m still stuck on that opening phrase because…what? I am so confused by how people view interactions on tumblr & AO3 these days. Let me make it very clear for anyone who is unsure:

CREATORS WANT YOU TO INTERACT WITH THEIR WORK.

The limit does not exist on how many of their works you can interact with in a certain period.

If you like every fic they’ve ever written? Then feel free to give them all kudos and even leave a comment on every single one if you feel inclined! If you’re going through someone’s blog and you vibe with every post, like/reblog to your heart’s content!

As long as you’re not expecting something back from them or adding a ton of irrelevant comments, it’s not spam! It’s what this is all about!! I’m not even much of a creator and I still feel a huge sense of pride when I see a ton of notifications in a row from a person, as it clearly shows they thought my blog was worth spending time on.

No, you can’t afford him. Like literally, he was fuckin expensive to grow💀