#long ramble

It's fine to be inspired but there's limits you know? And since the controversy with chester has passed I think it's super weird how a lot of stuff was kind of copied from em? Like you can argue and say only chapter 1 of nothing left to lose had some influences but the inspiration is pretty obvious throughout all of the stories. It's horrifically obvious in fire and ice with the whole "body horror just figured object that came out of a recovery center" at first it was cool but now it's just kind of...odd with the large gaping mouth full of teeth, hollow eyes and the multiple legs. I guess Chester can't own designs like that but other influences are a bit more obvious. And also the way they were so just odd in the server for a while.

I can't really ever forget the massive hate campaign that went on when the dragon scale and gum chapter released about the trigger warning and content in the ep.

Anyway some stuff that I thought looked a bit too similar.

Both in chapter 2

But other than the art I think the writing is very off at times. Characters don't really act their age. I understand ticket but taffy Acts 15 despite being twelve (theirs a BIG difference) and there's is not really a good reason for it. The characters are very flat though I feel like I can't even say that because the comics hasn't been updated in years so there's not really much character to pull from. But anyway I'll stop ranting.

Just relistened to the season without the statements on YouTube and it's fantastic even though I obviously missed some of the statements, but it's a nicer way to rewatch it after I already listened to the statements, some of them multiple times

It has so many great moments - the "I don't know if I still care that he hears my voice" kills me every fucking time for one

And also, season 4 has an amazing arc of the curroption of main characters and how they deal with it - it's what I think I wanted when I was younger and read the second book in the Grisha trilogy, and suddenly the main character is not acting just out of pure intentions but because a part of her just wants more power and she isn't willing to stop it? She focuses on the excuses, why all this stuff could be useful and good to have, but the people around her know as well as her that it's not only costing the life of magestic hundreds of years old creatures, it's also making her less human, and more selfish and powerhungry.

I wish the last book stuck the landing there, and I do like it and I reread it a lot, but it just didn't follow through on a lot of the promises of book two, mostly to give us a happy ending, I think. I do like happy endings so I'm glad about that.

That's something the magnus archives doesn't really mind not doing since it's targeting an older audience, and I love that so much too. In particular, the way basira and melany keep threatening Jon and telling him that it's not that hard since daisy is managing, only for us to slowly realize that daisy is growing weaker and dying, and made her peace with that, and still has to return to the hunt at the end of the season. It connected with me.

I first listened to this season (pretty recently but still) when I had a lot of people, and a constant voice in my head, telling me it should be easy. For me, for a lot of people who were struggling who were close to me. And seeing the struggle of the characters to remain on the right path even if they suffer and how that's not anywhere near easy gave me a lot. Obviously we are struggling against our own brains, depression or addiction or burnout or anxiety (fuck anxiety, literally too, virgil can get it and I don't even like 99% of men), and they are against a currupting supernatural influence, but that kind of made it better. I love the fact that most supernatural shit in the magnus archives is fought with the most non supernatural stuff ever, from CO2 fire extinguishers to plastic explosions to therapy, can we talk about that? I might write a different post about that don't know

Episode 2 and 3 ended well and introduces the main threats despite the amount of dialogues is a lot, probably better on Episode 3 to lessen the dialogues since SCOOP is already familiar on dealing with all kinds of anomalies. Take up Black Vinegar's dialogues for example on her being affected by one of the anomalies that leads her to seek out Povidone Iodine's help, keep it short with the effects after encounter short which lets her take the center focus. Overall, really like SCOOP's introduction and Croissant's involvement to the plot that differentiates this iteration from Ovenbreak's, plus finding out the anomalies that SCOOP has dealt/dealing with from episode 3 up to 4, and it really feels like easter egg hunting.

There are still small gripes I got from Timeline of Fate as of whole is that the BGs of the map aren't used as CGI for the story to convey how and what is happening that doesn't rely on dialogues and still image sprites alone. The BGs for each episode's map are amazing and really a shame that I can't even screenshot the images as of whole since I can't hide the buttons. Really hope that the last parts of Episode 2's Timekeeper and Croissant's side can get voiced at some point, since those parts are the big lore drops! Ulimate Cookie's presence really brings out a large amount of threat and such, basically in terms of Oreca Battle, they're like Dark Matters but have sentience and affects mentality at its finest. Plus in Tower of Records, there's no images for the cutscenes in Wheel of Fates's 11, 12, and 16th episodes.

Well... That's all I can say about the story without spoiling too much, so below here is where the spoilers are abound so read at your own risk!

1 is underrated tbh. 2 also and people seem to talk about it even less. Haven't touched 3-5 or 8 yet but they look fun. 6 and 9 are best imo and 7 deserves its praise and is also damn good.

By and large, everything I've played after 9 is a slog. Actually, no, too polite. They're tedious, bland, and not fun. Extra side quests to bulk out the playtime while interrupting the flow of the game isn't fun. Everyone being conveniently pretty is uninteresting. 15 is about a road trip where you're stuck in a car with several very obnoxious idiots, one of which won't stop singing his stupid chocobo song. 16 is literally the devs trying to be George R. R. Martin and something feels so very wrong about a Final Fantasy with an M rating, and I can't quite put my finger on why. I miss how the side quests in the older games felt like something you encountered organically which didn't compromise the main plot.

Not to mention that 15 is less about its own story and more about being a flimsy Monster Hunter knock-off. Again, more side quest than main quest.

I thought I was being a senseless hater for a long time until 7 remake. I was really excited for that because I felt that a lot of the tedium in the original was inherent to the fact that the dev team were just learning with the rest of the industry how to make a 3D game. It's just a little janky is all, but it feels very forgivable. It's nice that newer ports of the game repair game-breaking bugs that plagued the original release, like how some parts of chocobo breeding can corrupt your save (it's been ages, I can't remember the situation). As such I thought 7 deserved a redo because for as loved and as good as it is, I wanted to see its full potential.

7 Remake is not its full potential. It's tedious, bland, and is not fun more often than it is. The second part of it looks painful. Not to mention the known AI slop about it. Part three is gonna be a hard pass for me. I don't need Tifa telling me to my face that now is a good time to take a break from the main plot to do side quests that I need to do now or else I won't be able to return to them.

But it’s actually bewildering to see trump loyalist try and justify these ridiculous renovations.

When they’re complaining about gas prices and eggs

Yes Please explain to me, why the white house needs a pool…. And a solid gold ballroom….

Any reason they come up with sounds ridiculous and their argument sound so childish. Seriously, why does the government building need a pool…. That’s an idea a child would come up with. They’re suppose to be working! Not renovating their workplace building which they temporarily have for 4 years. Like all the tax money that hasn’t fucking gone to war could have gone to so many other more pressing matters.

To be honest, the secret is to restrict yourself as much as you can :") it's horrible but it works. To never pull the character card you don't really want and don't use gems without some urgent need. Since I live in Europe, I can't donate to the game and buy gems, so I save up on my own.

The main rule: to buy extra keys in shop when they are available (Gem Shop and Standard Shop, Exam Token section). It would only cost around 300 gems a month and some exam tokens, but you will have x1 Tenfold key set and 6 regular keys, which makes it 16 pulls a month.

Next: have a plan. The schedules of events from official TWST EN Twitter are really helpful, because you can be ready for a card you wanted, and if this month there are no showcases of interest for you, you simply don't pull at all, it's obvious. Don't miss out on joint exams, combat drills, etc!! They take time, but provide gems.

My main targets are always Ruggie, Leona, Jamil and Kalim – I will always pull for their cards (or find a way to buy them in shop for event currency if they are SR rank or lower), so I always save up for them and they are my top priority. I don't pull for any other characters, except Riddle and sometimes tweels. Everyone else isn't interesting to me, because I am genuinely very unlucky in gacha😭

I still mourn rapunzel Riddle because I wanted him so so much but I couldn't afford to spend more than 20 pulls on him 💔 it always feels like a wasted opportunity, but since I have priorities, I stick to them.

Also! Always check Event Twistunes. Rewards for them aren't received until the event is over, so it's better to check for your gems and thaumarks in there once in a while.

I don't do lessons compulsively, so I only visit twst once a day and to be honest, to have a weekly schedule plays a good role in saving gems as well: weekly missions allow to save up plenty if you just go to the game once a day and finish one or two missions, 7 days are enough. Also don't miss daily logins, sometimes you can save up to 50 gems per week just for logging in.

btw the only character who never disappoints me Is Jamil, because I literally got his overblot within 30 pulls unlike birthday Ruggie who took me a solid 100.

I MEAN LOOK AT HIMMMMM AGHH I AM HAPPY ASL

aside from that, i was always obsessed with fionna and cake ever since i got my hands on the comic book ~2013. so when the show came out of course i watched it and loved it regardless of my spotty remembrance of the base show. i watched the first season then kinda let it sit in the back of my mind. the second season came out and i didn’t really pay it any mind. had more important things to do.

but earlier this month, the passing thought of finishing it came around and i ended up rewatching the entire first season of fionna and cake with my nail tech lol.

And uhh... I have mixed feelings basically.

On one hand, I like how the development is going on within the story and the scale is set to an increasing amount with how the existing Soul Jams are what balances a world (maybe Earthbread in this context) is on. But on the other, there's just... barely at stake with the introduction to Timeline of Fate here.

As always, spoilers of CRK's Timeline of Fate - Prologue alongside bits of the ending of Beast-Yest are expected and will be below "Keep Reading" here!