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COMMUNITY (2009-2015) | bloopers vs actual scene:

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OH MAN

i was nervous about this but i super enjoyed it honestly. i love teen lesbian simulator 2

sora was a style icon why change one thing tbh

lmao I almost specified DW/the 50th for 17

man i loved this game! much more than i expected to. what a blast.

first up i DIED @ rhys looking at that drawing and saying “my forehead’s not that big! ...is it?” asklfhalkwhlawth WHAT KIND OF JEFF WINGER SHOUTOUT??? my fave corporate assholes forced down a redemption arc through the power of friendship

i so desperately wanted an option for fiona to yell down “IT’S NOT SMALL”

totally thought the uncomfortable rhys worship of vaughn’s little cult was going to go somewhere but it... didn’t. oh well.

i’ve said this the whole time but especially by ep 5 like -- lol fiona and rhys’ relationship is such catnip for me, at one point I send catey a message going “THEY’RE BOTH PLAYING BAD COP DESPITE PREVIOUSLY AGREEING OTHERWISE!!! WHY IS THIS SO TAILOR-MADE FOR ME” followed shotly by “I guess because I have literally been writing their relationship half the time, but...”

seriously though: both playing bad cop akslfhlawrasfkhlawr

i spent this whole game like “man i really enjoy their friendship i hope neither did somethign catastrophic to ruin it, hence the present-day falling out” but then it turned out their falling out was over some petty bullshit which in turn only made me love them more, christ

rhys/sasha was predictably my jam as well, lmao i finally got some stats at the end of this ep and i happened to look away during rhys’ (!! lmao of course when it finally works i’m not paying attention) but i saw fiona’s and it was like “you and 91.5% of players shipped rhys and sasha”

i mean fiona being pissy about it was gr8 but like i also play rhys and want to get up in there so

i talked a lot about how much i loved rhys mainly because my love for him surprised me whereas fiona is so obviously a character i would love, but i should state for the record fiona is the bomb. female con artist smartasses w a heart of gold 4 ever.

the loaderbot reveal was interesting, i didn’t spend that much time wondering who the captor was but i did kind of wonder if they were a robot, yet never quite made the loaderbot connection. so that was funny.

the vaughn reveal, i knew it would be vaughn immediately and just found myself irritated by his dramatics lmfao you ass why would you make your friends think you’re gonna murder them before you rescue them

sasha’s death fakeout was really good because I was like “i’m SURE if she died i would’ve seen tumblr rage out over it at some point....... but she sure seems dead....... but this doesn’t seem like that type of game..... but it IS telltale.......” so it kept me in suspense long enough to work while still having me relieved it was a fakeout

the team choosing part was really cool! that’s a neat way to integrate your choices from earlier in the game. despite hating august i had to recruit him because i had no one else left LMAO.

at least the lesbians were on board.

i thought handsome jack worked pretty well as a villain -- i can’t figure out why anyone would’ve trusted him throughout the game (aside from a conscious decision to play rhys as more of an asshole, i guess) but even still he worked; the “oh so is there where you give a speech about how we’re the same” “no you’re way better at killing than me”  confrontation w rhys worked better than those scenes often do, since usually the hero and villain are so far apart they make no sense (callout post 4 twdg s2 with carver and clementine) but here it worked

sidenote, why was rhys continually surprised by his robot arm being stronger than his non-robot limbs. this seems like something you would not forget, if you had a robot arm.

way more eye horror in this game than i anticipated honestly

this whole game just culminating in THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP~*~*~ was somehow precisely what my cynical ass needed at this point in time, so that was a welcome discovery

my main complaint would be that the ‘gameplay’ element was pretty light, even by telltale standards. but in ep 5 they at least tried to compensate with the robot transformer fight scene

anyway overall like 9/10, i would’ve liked more scenes where you can wander and explore, or more puzzles to solve. but the characters, story and humour were great, and for a game without any life-or-death choices (mostly) the choice mechanic worked really well.

I also really thought the Jack/Rhys "WE'RE THE SAME" thing and dramatic Jack fallout were really good, I was so creeped out by his face following me through the wreckage too lol

yeah, esp because when the game forces you to pick what you’d do with power~ i went for what seemed like the least jackass answer (’fix pandora’) and jack is like well hey that’s what i wanted to do and i was like oh god abort

oh Joyce is a deep cut ty

First impression: I liked Joyce! Waffles :) lol. But seriously she seemed like she was trying and she was nice to Max and I appreciated that

Impression now: The more I've replayed the less sympathetic I am. Chloe is for sure a difficult child but every time they introduce more canon it's ... not ... super flattering to Joyce imo. I think she wildly mishandled the David situation and that's even before you get into the routes where David hits her and Joyce shrugs it off. I don't want to hold Before the Storm against Joyce much because BTS was garbage lmfao, but it really does not paint a flattering picture of her.

Favorite moment: I like when Max tattles on David's security cams and Joyce kicks him out of the house lmao.

Unpopular opinion: This is only unpopular among certain segments of fandom lol but I find it buck wild when people are like "you gotta sacrifice Chloe bc poor Joyce shouldn't die :(" like what in god's name lmao ... you think joyce would rather have chloe gutshot and be a widow with a dead child???? ??? ? ? ? ? ?...