reading in peace

roald dahl was antisemitic and misogynistic. george orwell was openly homophobic. edgar allan poe married his 13 year old cousin. dr seuss cheated on his wife (and was racist as well as antisemitic!). hp lovecraft was racist as fuck. anyways they’re fucking dead it’s not like you’re enabling their behaviors in the afterlife or something. then again I think they bleed into the books so uh keep an eye out for that

I love how much of a villain Gordon is in this event. He's a corrupt mid-level bureaucrat who uses his position to embezzle belongings from immigrants! He's letting a bunch of business grifters skirt by safety regulations to make himself look good for the expo! He has a secret lair where he displays a collection of his ill-gotten spoils! He's also kinda racist! He even has a subordinate whose sprite was recycled from the banker lady in CW. In any other story he would have been the main antagonist. Instead he becomes a playable operator while literally still working for the ATAO lol.

Unrealized Realities Spoilers

WAIT I WAS JOKING

highmore's boss design was likely inspired by radiolarian silicate shells, particularly this rendition by biologist ernst haeckel, published in his book kunstformen der natur (art forms in nature). depicted are radiolarians in suborder stephoidea.

starting a new niche called "edibleknights" where i can only use operators whose codename i've eaten

Oh goddamnit I just realized it.

After all this time, it still trips me up how Arknights will randomly have these exquisite NPC portraits—free from the "anime hot" constraints on PCs, with carefully-shaded faces and still clearly showing their own style.