Tisl valentine's card.
CW: contains dick cleavage, rude.
Tisl valentine's card.
CW: contains dick cleavage, rude.
Our household does bayberry candles for luck on New Year's Eve and Christmas, and last night, the taper holder it was in blew itself apart during the last burns of the candle.
Rather than think this is a bad omen for the year, I'm going to conflate it with the fact that I wish upon the candles when I light them and I'm gonna go with the universe going "alright, we'll see if we can't do something with that."
I'll let y'all know if it comes true.
I think there's a whole ass article that could be written explicitly about the three recruitable kid characters in the game, regarding:
• the duty of care that society has for its most vulnerable
• how kids perceive world changing events (naivety vs an almost nihilistic carefree attitude vs having been born into a world where they've only know this)
• the fact that out of all of the characters in the game, these are the three most likely to straight up die
There's a lot of other things that get touched on like:
• infrastructure fails the most vulnerable people first
• how to convey loss and tragedy to people who might not otherwise understand what's going on
• how there are bad faith actors in the world but you still need to not swing too hard in the opposite direction, lest you lock yourself away from the world out of fear of getting hurt
• how people can love you AND have bad intentions for you
• harm as a function of ignorance versus malice
Been yelling about it constantly in various places, but I really ought to sit down and figure out specifically why Look Outside managed to hit me in the deepest part of my brain like Earthbound did.
My gut instinct: a lot of the game deals with themes of helplessness and isolation, and both the healthy and unhealthy coping mechanisms that people develop as a result of coming to terms with a global phenomenon.
Plus, the fact that you might end up weird, but that doesn't make you BAD.
Mahjong is very funny sometimes. "There's no way he's going for all green, that's stupid, that's a joke hand that doesn't exist"
FOLKS HIS ASS WAS GOING FOR ALL GREEN