Vergil's Motivation

My only console I've ever had was a PlayStation 3 and it's run its course so I am not well versed in modern video games.

The reason I have opinions on video games is because my information comes from playthroughs, breakdowns, and watching cutscenes. So I have a lot of knowledge on games like Devil May Cry and Metal Gear but I don't know the full story and am subject to being corrected at any moment.

I won't lie and say I am a true fan of anything, but I know a lot about the Devil May Cry series to give my opinion on Adi Shankar's anime. Because at least I can rest easy knowing there's a way worse LARPer out there than me.

The best games I've ever played were Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag and Ratchet & Clank: A Crack In Time. I don't make a lot of posts about Ratchet & Clank on my blog because I haven't really played the other games, but it's kinda funny for me to see how lucky I was that the only Ratchet & Clank title I played besides All 4 One and Full Frontal Assault was literally the best game in the franchise. And my knowledge on Assassin's Creed as a franchise comes from what I've picked up online, as I've said about Devil May Cry and Metal Gear.

There's nothing that really prompted this post, like this isn't an apology or anything. But it's basically a forewarning that most of my posts about video games henceforth will be based on what I've learned online and I am subject to being corrected.

And just so you know, these are the games I played on PS3 and am currently playing on laptop through the Steam Library:

Ratchet & Clank: A Crack In Time, All 4 One, and Full Frontal Assault

LittleBigPlanet 1, 2, and 3

Burnout Paradise

Motorstorm

Cars 2

Toy Story 3

PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale

Minecraft (up till the Aquatic Update)

Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag

Ducktales Remastered

LEGO: The Hobbit

LEGO: Jurassic World

Start The Party!

Sports Champions

Brawlhalla

Sims 4

Cells To Singularity

(this does not include demos or mobile games, nor does it count the time I briefly played Donkey Kong on a very old system)

I guess you could call me a cinephile but I'm not a very artsy guy

I like movies, TV shows, books. Doesn't really matter if it's anime, cartoons, live action, 3D animation, whatever. I think all of them have their merits and I really admire the art.

I am a writer, kind of an artist. I use novel prose but script formatting because script formatting is easy for me to read and novel prose is fun to describe, and I hate present tense writing which is why I use past tense and a novel style. And I note down camera angles if there's something specific because I'm also studying cinematography.

Even though I am a writer, I don't write a lot because I spend most of my time detailing characters and lore and only write a random scenes that come to mind.

I often use a pretty rhetorical style and try to use my descriptions to paint the picture in your head, from the cinematography to the colours, as a way to kind of give a visual guide through the description instead of leaving instructions most of the time.

My descriptions are often influenced by writers like Tolkien but my mental images are meant to evoke an animated medium like Pixar or Hayao Miyazaki

I sometimes figure out scenes by saying "Okay, how do I do this opening scene because there's a lot of lore?" and then I look at Lord of The Rings and I'm like "Oh, basically put a short film at the start and give that a three-act structure filled with action as well as information so that I can slow down with the rest of the scene, got it"

I like music and musical theatre

My favourite plays/concept albums are Hamilton and EPIC: The Musical and I grew up watching musicals. Shakespeare obviously isn't a musical but I studied Romeo & Juliet last year and I really like it.

I like a lot of music. I'm not one of those people who say they listen to every kind of music because I fucking hate sludge and doom metal because sludge sounds like toxic waste and I was so fucking disappointed that doom metal didn't sound like Mick Gordon. I do like nu-metal and screamo because they have the decency to not sound like a sonic atrocity and actually have a driving rhythm. I also only like country music if it's rock music like Cars or Old Town Road by Lil Nas X. But outside of that, I do generally listen to almost every kind of music from KPop to pop to rap to R&B to rock to Mongolian Throat Metal to cultural music. I used to hate French music until I listened to Est-ce Que Tu M'aimes? and Ma Meilleure Ennemie and re-listened to the Ratatouille and Monster of Paris soundtrack. Same for opera.

I guess I like music if I can see the artistic intent behind it or just like the sound because I find the saccharine pop music like Burst And Pop by Mondays feat. Paulina Fröling or even pop-rock like Not Another Song About Love by Hollywood Ending really comforting and it gives me summer vibes and nostalgia and I think it can even be a little sad in the right context.

I don't know music theory and I wrote a lot of shitty songs when I was 15 but I've recently been listening to the instrumentation of musical songs I've been listening to like Renaissance Disney or Prince of Egypt or My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic so I can admire the work put into it and I've been paying attention to a lot of more OSTs like How To Train Your Dragon or The Incredibles because I think as a writer, I need to be able to think sonically so I can write scenes in line with the music in my head. I can't write notes but I can beat out the music by basically saying what I want it to sound like, so I can't say what the motif in a suite is but I can say where to place it in the arrangement.

That's probably it.

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If you don't like anything I post, just block me and don't bother arguing because I won't respond

Fuck pedophiles, fuck bigots, fuck the Technocrats as a staff, political party, and as a motherfucking crew. And if you wanna be down with any of them, then fuck you too

If the predators are meant to represent stereotypes about minorities, such as savagery, then I think Nick being a fox represents how Italian-Americans were treated in New York:

Nick has connections to Mr. Big, an Italian mafia boss

Nick being a fox makes people believe he's shifty

The elephant in the ice cream bar assumed Nick was there to make trouble

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm also sure that same scene was a reference to a scene in a mafia movie where a diner refused service to a Mexican guy

Now, I really like Caleb's version because it's a very impressive performance, but the Christina Ellis version hurts more for me because she sounds so gentle and genuinely sad.

Admittedly, I did forget to include the operative detail that they actually kissed (I only described what they were doing with their hands) and it was a prelude to the two characters nearly having sex before the boyfriend had a panic attack and pulled away but it couldn't have been THAT BAD.

If I ever actually wrote smut or hell, if I ever wrote hentai, I'd be so annoying about it.

There's no saying that I could outhorny the other writers in the genre but I'd make the plot so gripping and so genuinely interesting with terrifying villains and a great story, just with a bunch of sex scenes and explicit content.

And you know what will happen because of it? Your little horny ass would be consuming it in some room all by yourself, or in a coffee shop, or wherever the fuck you watch and read this kind of shit.

Then you get hooked into the story and realise that so many people are missing out on something genuinely interesting, and you have to go and tell your friends about it.

But how will you tell them you discovered it? Did you really watch it on Crunchyroll, or some illicit piracy site?