funny silly girl dontcha know?

Semi-Final, Match 2 — GLaDOS (Portal) vs. Lemuen (Arknights)

GLaDOS propaganda:

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Lemuen propaganda:

Lemuen is an ambulatory wheelchair user who was an npc for a good few years before becoming playable just this year. Her wheelchair was redesigned in this process to be based on a sports wheelchair, and the 3d PV really showcases how much care was put into making her disability a primary focus of how cool she is. I can't really think of many video games having playable characters in wheelchairs who are treated with as much care and dignity in their design and writing as their able bodied peers. She's also incredibly pretty and her artist (IRIS_口艺) was insane for making those boots.

sakiko and mortis drinking beer

so this time what prompted it was remembering a post where someone jokingly calls nearl the horse that has canonically read das kapital. and the thing is. nearl's biggest flaw is not, in fact, that she is an incredibly dense lesbian who thinks Fingers Present is just gals being pals;

The Blood Knight: Your dedication is most honorable, Radiant Knight. From your eyes, I cannot see even a speck of the so-called dust of ideals. Many heroes do strive to act out of justice, but do it too hastily, in a way that is only self-serving. Margaret: No, I was surprised. After I returned to Kazimierz, I met a number of knights who still held onto their faith. They haven't lost themselves to modernity. From them, I can still see the embers of glory flickering.

it's that for her the problems with kazimierz are fully tied to Modernity and that the solution is a Return To The Old Ways that she was never around to experience but is Extremely Certain it was better.

from characters like Ashlock, Toland, and Czcibor it's actually pretty clear that the knight nobility, old and new, wasn't any better than the KGCC. Kirill Nearl and Ioletta Russel are, to our knowledge, Alright People, but she's extrapolated that to the knight-nobles as a whole (or at the very least does not see a PROBLEM with kazimierz's feudalism)

and like this fundamentally hasn't been a problem in practice yet because the TGCC was in power and fundamentally her time at RI has at least resulted in her having a really strong understanding of how to manage public perception. but she's wound up in this position where she's REALLY vulnerable to being exploited by the same system that made the armorless union rise in the first place.

Margaret: I will retake the glory that belongs to the knights. Młynar: Glory is meaningless. Margaret: Meaning is in the eye of the beholder.

she's really setting herself up to be exploited by a reinvigorated knight-nobility in the next kazimierz events - the same nobility that took her parents away from her. and it's an area i'm VERY much hoping that they do capitalize (heh) on when we return there.

buuuuut i haven't read das kapital either so maybe he doesn't actually have anything useful to say about how the pre-capitalist nobility are merely the precursors to the modern oligarchs and needed to be rebelled against for the same reasons. maybe nearl DID read it (we know she was one of zima's combat trainers!) and like the autism creature she is she went "Ah i now understand the Rules, the problem is Specifically Capitalism".