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2023.06.05 05:09 notlikethatglue What do I know about glue
Yo glue. You don't use this place so you'll never hear this but I got to tell someone and I'm not going to send it to you and sound even crazier I don't want you thinking I'm some kind of psychopathic stalker and I want you to feel comfortable and respected with your boundaries. So let's get down to brass tacks.
Girl when I think about you and all this s*** that went on and I think about me. It reminds me of when in pulp fiction Bruce Willis is popping Marcellus Wallace (Ving rhames) in the face saying "you feel that?" That's your pride f****** with you or some s*** like that.
Man glue how the hell are my feelings going to be hurt and how can I be so selfish as to even think that I deserve to be respected or put any expectations on you I'm not going to go into huge detail. Reason being is because the rest of the world will hear it but you probably won't but at least out there in the void I'm going to make it to where the respect you deserve this voiced from me and that you're honored for the things that you've done selflessly. Being thet our sister birthday was yesterday and she's no longer with us I think she would smile from above knowing that I finally said something like this.
Hey let me say thank you for real. Thank you for shutting my ass down and thank you for this list I'm about to go through which I will go into detail at a later time.
I'm going to write a story about our lives. I'm telling you it's going to happen. I started three separate writings and I'm ready to scrap them all to tell our story. I'm going to focus on that in my writings anyways on to the summary of what glue means to me or what I acknowledge about glue.
What you were up against.
When we met. You a teenage girl. Abandoned by one parent in a very vile way. The other parent was raising you. We were running around, you got sick, and you were in the hospital for weeks with some very serious troubles. Towards the end of the hospital stay cuz I was in there with you the whole time. The other parent came said that they won't going to deal with you and for you to figure it out a young girl in the hospital. The crazy part is you had done nothing wrong. That was my first real dose of surrealism in people next to some childhood stuff from one of my mother's boyfriends. And shortly after you were told you didn't have a home to come back to as a teenage girl in the hospital the doctors came in and said you would never be able to get pregnant or bare children. You moved in with us me my mom and my sister. And after all that you have been through you would think that you'll be nervous or anxious or things will be awkward. No. You stepped into the home and you immediately brought light into it that it was missing. You immediately were a part of the family and you were a part that was missing the whole time that no one ever knew about. You became a daughter to my mother a sister to my sister and more important things than my words can express right now to me. You kept a strong mentality and glue you were always the caretaker. You dealt with me a young pig-headed man very much in love with you with the drug addiction you catered to me. But not like a slave you catered to my soul there is never someone that I can ever dream of to treat me the way you did. You were loyal man you were my everything. I was yours. None of this is going to be an order but I've traveled with you across the country. We moved to Louisiana. I got a job on the tugboats. You were in the middle of a new scary town. And here I was gone 30 days at a time. But you held on. That was a really stressful time when I look back and that was a time when even though it was an experience I regret that decision because being gone that long from you at that young seemed okay then but even though my buddy's family was around I should have been there. But we did it the best we could. Eventually that didn't work out I'll never forget two cats in a 1984 Ford escort and all our s*** driving all the way to the East Coast. That escort could do some runs now. Anyways we moved to the beach. Being close to home my drug addiction was still an active Factor at all times you held on every time you could. When we move to the beach we decided we were going to do other things we came back to the city. That's what my sister move to the beach with her friend and we were in the city and got to call she had been in a car wreck.
We fly down to the beach before that even cut my sister out of the car we made a 2-hour drive in about 45 minutes. They will my sister in you were right by her side by my side you were there fam you were going through it with me, with her, with the parents. The wheel her in she said she couldn't feel her legs. Boom paralyzed never going to walk again. Thank God she lived and thank God she has such an amazing sister beside her during it all.
After rehabilitation the situation that it happened put my mom into a absolute mental tailspin. So we stuck around as my mother could barely function to tend to my sister.. to your sister. So you a young young woman who had been s*** on by her family. Took over my mother's role and began caretaking for my sister, all the while taking care of my mom with her mental episodes and and down time, and taking care of a loving man with an addiction that had selfish tendencies and you filled the role of all three caretakers and still manage to love me and show me affection with a smile on your face. You took care of the whole house. You took care of the animals. I'm not talking about any of the good really that I did or anybody else did I just want you to be recognized here.
We decided to move to Florida after a long time of you taking care of my paralyzed sister and helping her acclimate until she started lighting it up. What she took off and became president the Honor society went back to school started doing fundraisers was in the Miss wheelchair state runnings eyeballing Ms wheelchair America..once she got in her groove... We went on to Florida.
In Florida you dealt with a man that had just found the purest cocaine he had done in a long time for dirt cheap prices. Through pretty much the whole stay we were there the years we were there. But I wasn't completely a lost cause so in Florida you became a business partner, an entrepreneur, an inventor, a teammate, a valuable asset, Chief cornerstone that all things business relied on between us and my buddy that we went into business with. Your pragmatic approach and abilities dominated with mine. The things I fell short in you could put into place... I don't want to say my inventiveness and idealism was the exact complimentary opposite to that where you lacked. But I'm going to be straight up with you you were just as inventive, sellable, full of ideas, practical enough to make it happen, and able to execute. So you were still at a young age early twenties the most amazing business partner I could ever ask for. Not to mention the fun in the sun the palm trees the tacky gold the new cars living on the beach man I was built for that s*** and I know you were. Eventually when the big collapse of the towers came, and us with our lack of savings which was a big part my fault. After September 11th the market just crashed and we didn't do business and s*** started going backwards and we sold our debt for what a couple thousand bucks? To watch my friend hold on to that business and buy us out of all that debt until it finally bankrupted was insane he really held on to that dream.
Anyways by the time we get back to our hometown not only is my sister been in a wheelchair now my sister develops a tumor on her pituitary gland Cushing's disease. My drug addiction is full force when we pull back into town. You jump right into action taking care of her everyone and by this time your family had got back in your life your parents. And you forgave them and let them in boy I'll never forget to work it took for you to get over that I remember the days that I sit with you and helped you work through that stuff. But you forgave you opened your heart and you opened your arms and embrace family. And you took care of everyone.
We get married. I get you pregnant the first child. I'm so far in addiction now that we're back home ground zero for those old habits. You're neglected, I'm high, selfish,I'm ashamed so basically I either don't come home because I've been up all night High s*** spending all of our money. And I mean all of it taking right out of my pregnant wife's and the baby's mouth to serve my f****** addiction. and you just held on. Remainder Rock still taking care of my sister. Still being there for my mom. And absolutely the polar opposite of what the doctor said when we first met about not being able to have kids. So after neglecting you constantly pawning off tons of responsibilities on you and spending every penny we had and expecting you to take care of the kids and never being home and being unavailable because I had a disgusting ratchet ass bottom of the barrel love affair that started with cocaine but once I tried to sling and learn how to cook cocaine became Crack to be exact. I traded you, businesses, vehicles, Mom Dad the kids, stability love, God, futures, anything everything I traded for that nasty b**** crack. Mind body Spirit trade it at all.
And what did you do you kept managing with what you we had you kept trying to hold it together and you held on for dear life.
Now you had already become a daughter to my mother and you were a sister to my sister so my part to play in that has nothing to do with y'all's relationship at this point. There's a very painful thing that I'm even scared to talk about maybe one day. Anyways finally you said you couldn't do it anymore I had driven us in the dirt I had literally turned us into basically homeless people with kids and I just could not stop when I would get to the bottom I'd bring a jackhammer and I'd find a new bottom. And you finally took your eyes off of me and you looked at what was the most important our child and you said it's time to separate you had to do it. Our separation you still tried to work with me as I got off the drug short-term and you came back and that's when I got you pregnant. That's what I want to talk to you about one day when we have time. But that has nothing to do with the honor you deserve because you are always were and not a doubt my mind always will be a loyal honorable commendable Royal woman a true virtuous woman.
Anyways when we started talking again during the separation I got you pregnant again. We got back together to try to make it work for both our kids now. But I wasn't going to give up crack for you all the families all the religion all the money and all the happiness in the world. I was that f****** stupid. God is good because I didn't 12 step my s*** out of there with that God come down and put a disgust and a chill in my bones about that s*** and made it disappear overnight. Maybe another time because it was way too late when it happened. Anyways I got you to raise two kids stole all of our money stole all of our food stole everything we didn't even have gas half the time. You hold on. You held one. I still have the claw marks in my soul from where you didn't want to let me go because you were that committed and that good of a woman. That in tune with family.
You went on to raise the kids by yourself you hooked up with another dude he got you pregnant then you dealt with him abusing you physically. Torturing that household. I know he's changed but I know some of this s*** that he did to my kids because I could see it in their eyes every time I would drop a fork. Thank God they healed from that. Whether they healed fully especially one of them I don't know. But then the question would have to be raised does the pain in the issues they go through revolve around him or revolve around the traumas from me. Cuz a dad supposed to be there. You basically dealt with him terrorizing y'all raising hell you've told me some of the things that he used to do to you I don't see how you can still talk to me like he needs you and you've got to be there for him but that's on you and I respect it but the way that you explain some of the things that he did to you to me it makes me sick to my stomach because I could just never see myself like harming you physically over and over and over again and doing things to you in other forms of physical abuse and getting pleasure or control out of it. But I can see taking you everything you ever owned and never given our kids a chance or anybody else and giving it all to crack can I so I don't know there. I just know it blows my mind. But I think it comes a lot from the fact I left us so bottom of the barrel out back from my addiction that as long as somebody was providing you felt some form of security over top of what I left you with which was complete insecurity. Maybe that's why you stuck around for the abuse and still justifiy it over top of the things I've done to this day.
You raised his kid, you raised my kids, you were the one true parent you were two dads you were one mom. You were a counselor, a provider a mediator a caretaker a teacher a protector a shelter a guide a mentor a motivator a problem solver you were a parent and you played the role of three parents. Plus you worked plus you were there for my family whenever they needed you. You were there for my sister all through her Cushing's disease. And there's so much more because you were building towards the future on your own establishing financial security vision for yourself holding the fort down getting damn near no financial help from me none 00.
I incurred 135,000 child support debt with you. How's that for deadbeat dead? See this isn't about the arrogant narcissistic guy you think I am this is about who you are. Let's just fast forward so we getting locked up for child support even though you had already told me you weren't working on getting all of that got rid of. And yes you may not believe this but my whole f****** inheritance is going to you not one red cent goes to me because you earned that. Yo you earned like 50,000 times that times a hundred times 50. All of the money in the world in my opinion is still not enough compensation if it was given all to you for the things you've done.
Now fast forward to my sister dying she's on her deathbed she's checking out. you stay and active part of her life and you check on her and you stay by her side and you are there with her as a friend you coming you become her caretaker in the end you help my mother you stand by my family side we see my sister into the Afterlife and we live the lives we live.
I come to the city out of the blue I'll come to find out there was a warrant out I get arrested. With some help from another family member if y'all bond me out with $13,000 cash. A week later I'm called by the courts they said we didn't have to show the decision could be made without us there and when we pop up they walk out and they say here here's your piece of paper sir. You owe $14.75. I'll look at the piece of paper it says Mr so and so your debt with child support enforcement has been cleared in full please pay us these $14 processing fees and your case is closed. You smiled me a smile at you.
And you said the most horrific thing I've ever heard in my life from someone. I'm being cynical here because it was really the most amazing thing but I hate the term because I'm a basket case. You looked at me and said be better do better.
Fast forward after that I started trying to get my s*** together started trying to help you with vehicles and stuff around the house and somehow... Some f****** way... I had the audacity to get offended by the way you were treating me. And I had a nervous breakdown. And I begin saying things to you the absolutely weren't true that I absolutely didn't mean and I f****** flaked.
You with no contact to protect yourself.
Look at what you have done how could I have done that?
Anyways I've seen my mom turn on you with her words. I've seen your parents turn on you, I've turned on you, seen your friends turn on you, I've seen a world I've seen your ex's turn on you, but you know what I've never seen you turn on the people that you give your ability and your honor to and your bonds to I've never seen you turn on them ever.
You didn't turn on me you were protecting yourself.
Glue you were the strongest f****** woman I've ever met and you are worthy of an award that his world renowned and recognized because there are so many things that I haven't said here.
You are The Rock, you are the glue, you are the ties that bind... You are the virtuous woman. Proverbs 31 versus 10 to 31 is the description of who You are. Even to the point of where our kids were raised by you to place the dwelling now that you're at. You have taken in so many other people's kids you're like a parent to everyone. You excel at every job that you do. Vital asset to every team that you join. Highly efficient highly intelligent. Insanely gorgeous. Smart funny. God your sense of humor is so f****** awesome.
I'll see things in pictures my brain sees things in pictures and I just see pictures of you sometimes where always if we were around somebody that was down you would do the goofiest s*** you had to do to get them to smile because that's what you do. Just like sis did and this is her birthday gift from me because she told me several times to think about how hard you have worked. And she begged me to draw that picture before she died I got it toward the day before she died it was so important to her that picture is me holding her hand and her grabbing a star and her feet rooted to the ground and the roots coming into my feet and it says my brother taught me to reach for the stars my sister taught me to remain grounded.
And it's weird because I look at that and I think about how much of a icon and how much of a aura and presence glue was see y'all were glue one and two. And I'll go get that picture that she had me draw and it brings these overwhelming senses of things because I miss her so much but it brings you into the picture too because you always kept me grounded and I could envision anything anything on vision and you could take it for what it was and you could be like okay it's not that practical but it can be done and you would make the systems that made it happen no matter what it was I could create anything with you. You are after all Earth. I'm air. Reach for the Stars grounded etc.
Do you have so many amazing qualities and you have done so many honorable things. And for my sister's birthday I honor you her sister because the things that she said really ring true now. If you never talk to me again I respect it, if you want us to try to have some kind of working amicable relation I respect it but I have to have communication, you are so much of everything good and honestly I still love you so much thatI fall apart in your presence. But forget me man for real f*** me. Glue I want you to be happy you deserve happiness and if I take away from that then I need to shut my f****** mouth and I need to take that s*** so I went down and I need to smile because I know that you're happier. I truly know what it's like to want something so bad because I have for years but I never got healthy I'm just now getting around to taking care of myself. But I have for years wanted you and when I couldn't have you that's when you became Bruce Willis and you was popping my ass in the face saying you feel that boy that's your pride f****** with you.
Will glue I'm swallowing my pride. I want you to be happy no matter what I want you to be honored. If you ever do decide you want me in your life in any form please give me the communication I need to approach it healthily if not I'll f*** it up. I'm not even going to ask you what you want I'm not going to bug you but if by some chance in hell you ever find this letter just know at any point anytime you can reach out to me and ask for anything. I have taken and taken and taken and you have given and given and given it's time for me to sit the f*** down shut the f****** and love you the way you're supposed to be loved. And that means unconditionally loving you for who you are not loving you for me loving you because I absolutely adore who You are and I want to see the best life you can have happen.
You probably can't see your value and priceless coming out of my mouth or anyone else still does not do it justice.
Going to write a story about us glue.
And I promise to never promise again and just show you by allowing you the power dynamic you deserve to make your own choices and get the happiest healthiest life you can without me interjecting you've done it well this far better than me. Have made myself look like a total helpless loser in this but we both know what I'm capable of and what I'm about. If you need a roll for me just communicate it. I'll give it my all even if giving it my all means standing outside the box looking in but never burdening you with the fact that I am anymore.
And I'm not going to bring it up. Man I hope one day you get all the things you deserve.
You're admired appreciated loved and honored. By many. You are the Chief cornerstone woman. You are woman all woman.
I love you always will. Have my power dynamics take what you need and should you ever need me to flex my power because we both know all you got to do is make the call and I'll flex on whatever the hell you need me to as hard as you need me to and I'll scoop my ass right on out the way if that's what you need after it's done
Thank you glue
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Girl when I think about you and all this s*** that went on and I think about me. It reminds me of when in pulp fiction Bruce Willis is popping Marcellus Wallace (Ving rhames) in the face saying "you feel that?" That's your pride f****** with you or some s*** like that.
Man glue how the hell are my feelings going to be hurt and how can I be so selfish as to even think that I deserve to be respected or put any expectations on you I'm not going to go into huge detail. Reason being is because the rest of the world will hear it but you probably won't but at least out there in the void I'm going to make it to where the respect you deserve this voiced from me and that you're honored for the things that you've done selflessly. Being thet our sister birthday was yesterday and she's no longer with us I think she would smile from above knowing that I finally said something like this.
Hey let me say thank you for real. Thank you for shutting my ass down and thank you for this list I'm about to go through which I will go into detail at a later time.
I'm going to write a story about our lives. I'm telling you it's going to happen. I started three separate writings and I'm ready to scrap them all to tell our story. I'm going to focus on that in my writings anyways on to the summary of what glue means to me or what I acknowledge about glue.
What you were up against.
When we met. You a teenage girl. Abandoned by one parent in a very vile way. The other parent was raising you. We were running around, you got sick, and you were in the hospital for weeks with some very serious troubles. Towards the end of the hospital stay cuz I was in there with you the whole time. The other parent came said that they won't going to deal with you and for you to figure it out a young girl in the hospital. The crazy part is you had done nothing wrong. That was my first real dose of surrealism in people next to some childhood stuff from one of my mother's boyfriends. And shortly after you were told you didn't have a home to come back to as a teenage girl in the hospital the doctors came in and said you would never be able to get pregnant or bare children. You moved in with us me my mom and my sister. And after all that you have been through you would think that you'll be nervous or anxious or things will be awkward. No. You stepped into the home and you immediately brought light into it that it was missing. You immediately were a part of the family and you were a part that was missing the whole time that no one ever knew about. You became a daughter to my mother a sister to my sister and more important things than my words can express right now to me. You kept a strong mentality and glue you were always the caretaker. You dealt with me a young pig-headed man very much in love with you with the drug addiction you catered to me. But not like a slave you catered to my soul there is never someone that I can ever dream of to treat me the way you did. You were loyal man you were my everything. I was yours. None of this is going to be an order but I've traveled with you across the country. We moved to Louisiana. I got a job on the tugboats. You were in the middle of a new scary town. And here I was gone 30 days at a time. But you held on. That was a really stressful time when I look back and that was a time when even though it was an experience I regret that decision because being gone that long from you at that young seemed okay then but even though my buddy's family was around I should have been there. But we did it the best we could. Eventually that didn't work out I'll never forget two cats in a 1984 Ford escort and all our s*** driving all the way to the East Coast. That escort could do some runs now. Anyways we moved to the beach. Being close to home my drug addiction was still an active Factor at all times you held on every time you could. When we move to the beach we decided we were going to do other things we came back to the city. That's what my sister move to the beach with her friend and we were in the city and got to call she had been in a car wreck.
We fly down to the beach before that even cut my sister out of the car we made a 2-hour drive in about 45 minutes. They will my sister in you were right by her side by my side you were there fam you were going through it with me, with her, with the parents. The wheel her in she said she couldn't feel her legs. Boom paralyzed never going to walk again. Thank God she lived and thank God she has such an amazing sister beside her during it all.
After rehabilitation the situation that it happened put my mom into a absolute mental tailspin. So we stuck around as my mother could barely function to tend to my sister.. to your sister. So you a young young woman who had been s*** on by her family. Took over my mother's role and began caretaking for my sister, all the while taking care of my mom with her mental episodes and and down time, and taking care of a loving man with an addiction that had selfish tendencies and you filled the role of all three caretakers and still manage to love me and show me affection with a smile on your face. You took care of the whole house. You took care of the animals. I'm not talking about any of the good really that I did or anybody else did I just want you to be recognized here.
We decided to move to Florida after a long time of you taking care of my paralyzed sister and helping her acclimate until she started lighting it up. What she took off and became president the Honor society went back to school started doing fundraisers was in the Miss wheelchair state runnings eyeballing Ms wheelchair America..once she got in her groove... We went on to Florida.
In Florida you dealt with a man that had just found the purest cocaine he had done in a long time for dirt cheap prices. Through pretty much the whole stay we were there the years we were there. But I wasn't completely a lost cause so in Florida you became a business partner, an entrepreneur, an inventor, a teammate, a valuable asset, Chief cornerstone that all things business relied on between us and my buddy that we went into business with. Your pragmatic approach and abilities dominated with mine. The things I fell short in you could put into place... I don't want to say my inventiveness and idealism was the exact complimentary opposite to that where you lacked. But I'm going to be straight up with you you were just as inventive, sellable, full of ideas, practical enough to make it happen, and able to execute. So you were still at a young age early twenties the most amazing business partner I could ever ask for. Not to mention the fun in the sun the palm trees the tacky gold the new cars living on the beach man I was built for that s*** and I know you were. Eventually when the big collapse of the towers came, and us with our lack of savings which was a big part my fault. After September 11th the market just crashed and we didn't do business and s*** started going backwards and we sold our debt for what a couple thousand bucks? To watch my friend hold on to that business and buy us out of all that debt until it finally bankrupted was insane he really held on to that dream.
Anyways by the time we get back to our hometown not only is my sister been in a wheelchair now my sister develops a tumor on her pituitary gland Cushing's disease. My drug addiction is full force when we pull back into town. You jump right into action taking care of her everyone and by this time your family had got back in your life your parents. And you forgave them and let them in boy I'll never forget to work it took for you to get over that I remember the days that I sit with you and helped you work through that stuff. But you forgave you opened your heart and you opened your arms and embrace family. And you took care of everyone.
We get married. I get you pregnant the first child. I'm so far in addiction now that we're back home ground zero for those old habits. You're neglected, I'm high, selfish,I'm ashamed so basically I either don't come home because I've been up all night High s*** spending all of our money. And I mean all of it taking right out of my pregnant wife's and the baby's mouth to serve my f****** addiction. and you just held on. Remainder Rock still taking care of my sister. Still being there for my mom. And absolutely the polar opposite of what the doctor said when we first met about not being able to have kids. So after neglecting you constantly pawning off tons of responsibilities on you and spending every penny we had and expecting you to take care of the kids and never being home and being unavailable because I had a disgusting ratchet ass bottom of the barrel love affair that started with cocaine but once I tried to sling and learn how to cook cocaine became Crack to be exact. I traded you, businesses, vehicles, Mom Dad the kids, stability love, God, futures, anything everything I traded for that nasty b**** crack. Mind body Spirit trade it at all.
And what did you do you kept managing with what you we had you kept trying to hold it together and you held on for dear life.
Now you had already become a daughter to my mother and you were a sister to my sister so my part to play in that has nothing to do with y'all's relationship at this point. There's a very painful thing that I'm even scared to talk about maybe one day. Anyways finally you said you couldn't do it anymore I had driven us in the dirt I had literally turned us into basically homeless people with kids and I just could not stop when I would get to the bottom I'd bring a jackhammer and I'd find a new bottom. And you finally took your eyes off of me and you looked at what was the most important our child and you said it's time to separate you had to do it. Our separation you still tried to work with me as I got off the drug short-term and you came back and that's when I got you pregnant. That's what I want to talk to you about one day when we have time. But that has nothing to do with the honor you deserve because you are always were and not a doubt my mind always will be a loyal honorable commendable Royal woman a true virtuous woman.
Anyways when we started talking again during the separation I got you pregnant again. We got back together to try to make it work for both our kids now. But I wasn't going to give up crack for you all the families all the religion all the money and all the happiness in the world. I was that f****** stupid. God is good because I didn't 12 step my s*** out of there with that God come down and put a disgust and a chill in my bones about that s*** and made it disappear overnight. Maybe another time because it was way too late when it happened. Anyways I got you to raise two kids stole all of our money stole all of our food stole everything we didn't even have gas half the time. You hold on. You held one. I still have the claw marks in my soul from where you didn't want to let me go because you were that committed and that good of a woman. That in tune with family.
You went on to raise the kids by yourself you hooked up with another dude he got you pregnant then you dealt with him abusing you physically. Torturing that household. I know he's changed but I know some of this s*** that he did to my kids because I could see it in their eyes every time I would drop a fork. Thank God they healed from that. Whether they healed fully especially one of them I don't know. But then the question would have to be raised does the pain in the issues they go through revolve around him or revolve around the traumas from me. Cuz a dad supposed to be there. You basically dealt with him terrorizing y'all raising hell you've told me some of the things that he used to do to you I don't see how you can still talk to me like he needs you and you've got to be there for him but that's on you and I respect it but the way that you explain some of the things that he did to you to me it makes me sick to my stomach because I could just never see myself like harming you physically over and over and over again and doing things to you in other forms of physical abuse and getting pleasure or control out of it. But I can see taking you everything you ever owned and never given our kids a chance or anybody else and giving it all to crack can I so I don't know there. I just know it blows my mind. But I think it comes a lot from the fact I left us so bottom of the barrel out back from my addiction that as long as somebody was providing you felt some form of security over top of what I left you with which was complete insecurity. Maybe that's why you stuck around for the abuse and still justifiy it over top of the things I've done to this day.
You raised his kid, you raised my kids, you were the one true parent you were two dads you were one mom. You were a counselor, a provider a mediator a caretaker a teacher a protector a shelter a guide a mentor a motivator a problem solver you were a parent and you played the role of three parents. Plus you worked plus you were there for my family whenever they needed you. You were there for my sister all through her Cushing's disease. And there's so much more because you were building towards the future on your own establishing financial security vision for yourself holding the fort down getting damn near no financial help from me none 00.
I incurred 135,000 child support debt with you. How's that for deadbeat dead? See this isn't about the arrogant narcissistic guy you think I am this is about who you are. Let's just fast forward so we getting locked up for child support even though you had already told me you weren't working on getting all of that got rid of. And yes you may not believe this but my whole f****** inheritance is going to you not one red cent goes to me because you earned that. Yo you earned like 50,000 times that times a hundred times 50. All of the money in the world in my opinion is still not enough compensation if it was given all to you for the things you've done.
Now fast forward to my sister dying she's on her deathbed she's checking out. you stay and active part of her life and you check on her and you stay by her side and you are there with her as a friend you coming you become her caretaker in the end you help my mother you stand by my family side we see my sister into the Afterlife and we live the lives we live.
I come to the city out of the blue I'll come to find out there was a warrant out I get arrested. With some help from another family member if y'all bond me out with $13,000 cash. A week later I'm called by the courts they said we didn't have to show the decision could be made without us there and when we pop up they walk out and they say here here's your piece of paper sir. You owe $14.75. I'll look at the piece of paper it says Mr so and so your debt with child support enforcement has been cleared in full please pay us these $14 processing fees and your case is closed. You smiled me a smile at you.
And you said the most horrific thing I've ever heard in my life from someone. I'm being cynical here because it was really the most amazing thing but I hate the term because I'm a basket case. You looked at me and said be better do better.
Fast forward after that I started trying to get my s*** together started trying to help you with vehicles and stuff around the house and somehow... Some f****** way... I had the audacity to get offended by the way you were treating me. And I had a nervous breakdown. And I begin saying things to you the absolutely weren't true that I absolutely didn't mean and I f****** flaked.
You with no contact to protect yourself.
Look at what you have done how could I have done that?
Anyways I've seen my mom turn on you with her words. I've seen your parents turn on you, I've turned on you, seen your friends turn on you, I've seen a world I've seen your ex's turn on you, but you know what I've never seen you turn on the people that you give your ability and your honor to and your bonds to I've never seen you turn on them ever.
You didn't turn on me you were protecting yourself.
Glue you were the strongest f****** woman I've ever met and you are worthy of an award that his world renowned and recognized because there are so many things that I haven't said here.
You are The Rock, you are the glue, you are the ties that bind... You are the virtuous woman. Proverbs 31 versus 10 to 31 is the description of who You are. Even to the point of where our kids were raised by you to place the dwelling now that you're at. You have taken in so many other people's kids you're like a parent to everyone. You excel at every job that you do. Vital asset to every team that you join. Highly efficient highly intelligent. Insanely gorgeous. Smart funny. God your sense of humor is so f****** awesome.
I'll see things in pictures my brain sees things in pictures and I just see pictures of you sometimes where always if we were around somebody that was down you would do the goofiest s*** you had to do to get them to smile because that's what you do. Just like sis did and this is her birthday gift from me because she told me several times to think about how hard you have worked. And she begged me to draw that picture before she died I got it toward the day before she died it was so important to her that picture is me holding her hand and her grabbing a star and her feet rooted to the ground and the roots coming into my feet and it says my brother taught me to reach for the stars my sister taught me to remain grounded.
And it's weird because I look at that and I think about how much of a icon and how much of a aura and presence glue was see y'all were glue one and two. And I'll go get that picture that she had me draw and it brings these overwhelming senses of things because I miss her so much but it brings you into the picture too because you always kept me grounded and I could envision anything anything on vision and you could take it for what it was and you could be like okay it's not that practical but it can be done and you would make the systems that made it happen no matter what it was I could create anything with you. You are after all Earth. I'm air. Reach for the Stars grounded etc.
Do you have so many amazing qualities and you have done so many honorable things. And for my sister's birthday I honor you her sister because the things that she said really ring true now. If you never talk to me again I respect it, if you want us to try to have some kind of working amicable relation I respect it but I have to have communication, you are so much of everything good and honestly I still love you so much thatI fall apart in your presence. But forget me man for real f*** me. Glue I want you to be happy you deserve happiness and if I take away from that then I need to shut my f****** mouth and I need to take that s*** so I went down and I need to smile because I know that you're happier. I truly know what it's like to want something so bad because I have for years but I never got healthy I'm just now getting around to taking care of myself. But I have for years wanted you and when I couldn't have you that's when you became Bruce Willis and you was popping my ass in the face saying you feel that boy that's your pride f****** with you.
Will glue I'm swallowing my pride. I want you to be happy no matter what I want you to be honored. If you ever do decide you want me in your life in any form please give me the communication I need to approach it healthily if not I'll f*** it up. I'm not even going to ask you what you want I'm not going to bug you but if by some chance in hell you ever find this letter just know at any point anytime you can reach out to me and ask for anything. I have taken and taken and taken and you have given and given and given it's time for me to sit the f*** down shut the f****** and love you the way you're supposed to be loved. And that means unconditionally loving you for who you are not loving you for me loving you because I absolutely adore who You are and I want to see the best life you can have happen.
You probably can't see your value and priceless coming out of my mouth or anyone else still does not do it justice.
Going to write a story about us glue.
And I promise to never promise again and just show you by allowing you the power dynamic you deserve to make your own choices and get the happiest healthiest life you can without me interjecting you've done it well this far better than me. Have made myself look like a total helpless loser in this but we both know what I'm capable of and what I'm about. If you need a roll for me just communicate it. I'll give it my all even if giving it my all means standing outside the box looking in but never burdening you with the fact that I am anymore.
And I'm not going to bring it up. Man I hope one day you get all the things you deserve.
You're admired appreciated loved and honored. By many. You are the Chief cornerstone woman. You are woman all woman.
I love you always will. Have my power dynamics take what you need and should you ever need me to flex my power because we both know all you got to do is make the call and I'll flex on whatever the hell you need me to as hard as you need me to and I'll scoop my ass right on out the way if that's what you need after it's done
Thank you glue
2023.06.05 04:50 Jack-Fitch [TotK] - My Personal Take On The Story In The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom
This may be a bit of a controversial take but I honestly wasn’t a fan of the story in The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom. I honestly was a bit excited for this game coming out because it is the first game in a long time that Ganondorf made a re-entry in the series and one criticism I actually gave the Zelda franchise was that I believe that Ganondorf isn’t in enough Zelda games but now after actually beating the game and after 6 years of waiting after Breath Of The Wild, I feel like there was potential for the story to be really good and interesting but instead the game just felt undercooked with half baked ideas and the story is a convoluted mess with the most cookie cutter, bare bones plot structure you could imagine.
I feel like the characters weren’t utilized well to their full potential and the story overall just felt shallow and paper thin with it’s presentation. It was lazy and it was crafted with no direction of creativity. I just think the biggest problem with the story as a whole is that it feels so generically crafted and there’s just not much too it.
I think the biggest issue that exposes this is the way they handled Zelda in this game. I think her lack of agency in the story creates plot holes and many things that actually happen in the game are just left vague with very little detail explaining how things are so the story can be pieced together.
Even right in the beginning of the game I kind of question the motivation of why Zelda and Link decided to go down into a cave and explore Hyrule’s past without really much thought given. I know this is a minor complaint but it kind of bothers me how the whole story in this game is set up just from this happening alone and then they just happen to find Ganondorf just chilling beneath Hyrule Castle and he is somehow powerful enough now to literally disintegrate the master sword with barely any trouble.
I mean, I think it’s cool how he can actually do that now and I love Ganondorf as he’s always been one of my favorite characters of all time and don’t get me wrong but isn’t the master sword like Ganondorf’s one weakness? I think I wouldn’t have a problem that he could do this at all if they at least just bothered to give a bit more solid context as to how Ganondorf can now just overpower Link so easily in the beginning of the game.
The only logic you can come up for why and how Ganondorf can do this is because he acquired Sonia’s stone on his forehead but the game never clearly states this so all you can do is speculate.
This is what I mean about the story being vague because nothing is ever articulated well enough that you actually see an explanation so you can understand what the hell is happening in this game.
Another issue with the games story is how much this game just dumps the same exposition in your face like as if you couldn’t understand simple things that the story tells you meanwhile not being able to focus on anything that could be more subtle like with Zelda being a puppet of Ganondorf throughout 2 thirds of the entire game but doesn’t utilize to it’s fullest potential.
This could’ve been honestly one of the darkest games of all time if they just fixed how they handled Link, Zelda, and Ganondorf. I don’t really like how the characters barely turn against Zelda when they can clearly see that Zelda is doing some really terrible things like how she used Yunobo to turn all his people into slaves that reject work and eat rocks all day, and how she was literally responsible for causing all of Rito Village to suffer a blizzard harshly.
I understand why Queen Sonia didn’t turn against Zelda because she was able to see how she was a fake Zelda right before her eyes but during the entire game where you play as Link, nobody see’s the real Zelda and they’re just left to speculate what the hell is happening.
What we actually got was disappointing as answers. What really happened to Zelda was that it’s revealed that she turned herself into a light dragon after she was told by Mineru that it was forbidden because she wouldn’t be able to turn back and she decides to swallow a stone and turns into a dragon.
Not only does the game not make clear how she travelled back in time to begin with but then it all leads down to a disappointing plot twist that also gets resolved in an instant at the very end of the game but we’ll talk about that more down below.
The reason I state that the game repeats exposition and throws it down your face is because there’s also this one cutscene that gets repeated being shown 4 times as if we didn’t already have a grasp about that Rauru imprisoned Ganondorf after the Imprisoning War. We don’t need to watch the same exact thing happen over and over again after we beat an area and dungeon in the game.
The game has no real sense of progression and instead formulaically copies the same cutscene watered down every time.
I also don’t like a lot of the new characters they make up in the game that are newly introduced. Either they feel like filler characters or their entire existence is contrived to begin with.
Personally I'm going to be honest with you. I'm not a big fan of Rauru as a character. I find it pretty hard to actually believe that he himself is actually the first king of Hyrule mainly because it doesn't actually make any sense from a biological standpoint.
If you're telling me some weird goat dude was the first king of Hyrule and if the Zonai were really responsible for building the kingdom to begin with, then this creates a massive question. How do you explain how the Hylian's rose to power when the Zonai are the creators?
In theory, you could probably argue that Rauru's spirit maybe met some random dude and told him he could be king but the game never hints how that could be the case as like with Ganondorf now having power to destroy the master sword or the situation where Zelda is turned into a dragon is left very vague with nothing deeper than just simply go with whatever nonsense is happening in the plot of this game.
It's not even that I think Rauru is annoying. I just think he's a really boring, uninteresting character who also just has no personally. I think the people honestly making this game didn't bother putting two seconds of thought into how this would work that a goat looking freak of nature is the original king of Hyrule.
I don't actually care about him or the ancestor's which by the way are just bootleg versions of the champions from Breath Of The Wild because the story does nothing developing it's characters past the cookie cutter and basic storyline of good guys must defeat evil demon bad guy that you see recycled a million times.
I actually kind of wonder how if he's actually the king of Hyrule how it never crosses Zelda's mind to wonder if they're somehow biologically related somehow but you know, who'd wonder anything about that right? Nah, let's just go with it right?
A lot of the new side characters are also extremely boring generic archetypes like Tulin who's just some brat who thinks he's tough and then for some reason, Teba who's actually his father just decides to allow Tulin to fight with Link anyways because you gotta have some little kid fighting to relate to babies playing this game and Sona who's extremely aggravating because the writers just thought it would be smart to just add some new forced in love interest who's in love with Sidon even though they've never even been together shown in Breath Of The Wild and have the amount of chemistry as two planks of wood and showing a paper bag being blown beneath your legs.
Not even much to say beyond that regarding these "Characters" if you could even call them that.
Going back to Zelda though, I think the biggest problem with her character arc is that she's utilized about as subtle as raw paper throughout the entire story. I think the biggest problem with her becoming a dragon is that it kind of removes any tension or real stakes of what goes on with her.
I just feel like it would've been a lot cooler in the story if there was more intriguing mystery surrounding why Zelda was acting so strange throughout the entire game because on paper, it is a good concept. I'll give Tears Of The Kingdom credit with that.
It would've been better if the game had you first meet Zelda and then emotionally tries to break Link and hurt all of her friends and then everybody turns against her meanwhile the real Zelda hides in the shadows trying to prove there was an imposter and nobody believes her. That seems like a much better outline for a really dark and gritty story and personally if I was writing this games plot, that would be what it'd be focused on.
Dragon Zelda shouldn't even exist in this game. I thought it was stupid because it took away all the tension that evil Zelda was doing and it wasn't like it wasn't so obvious that Ganondorf was pulling the strings behind Zelda this whole time.
The reason why this is such a terrible plot twist is because it ruins the darker tone this game was trying to aim for with Ganondorf's admittedly cool and dark plan of ruining the belief that Zelda is such a pure and innocent soul as a way to get revenge on the fact he was imprisoned. Breaking people from the inside is a lot darker than breaking them from the outside and that's something I think this game doesn't understand.
Personally I think they also ruined this part of the story because they needed to aim it towards kids and not both kids and adults and I see this as an issue because there's absolutely nothing wrong with an adult having his nostalgia for a video game so that argument would be ridiculous.
It's just a shame that the game's plot isn't as dark as it could've been and would've been a lot more interesting this way.
Now I was maybe just a little bit hard on Ganondorf in this game but to be fair, I don't actually think he was done poorly in this game. I think the final boss in this game minus the part where Ganondorf turns into a dragon was a pretty cool fight and I also think that he does look pretty cool in this game too.
My only real issue with Ganondorf in this game is that I do feel like his characterization is kind of lacking in this game. All of his dialogue is just generic comically evil one liners and it kind of just takes me a bit out of it when I'm just trying to have fun watching Ganondorf kick everybody's ass on screen. Him talking about how he just wants to erase light from this world feels a bit cheesy and I think they could've done a better job making him a bit more serious as a character and really going an extra mile ruining Zelda's reputation as a hero.
I say this not ever because I hate Ganondorf. I say this because I know when things have more potential and they could be done better and I feel like Ganondorf's presentation with his character writing was a bit lacking in this game. I feel like Wind Waker actually did a better job making him feel more human inside but that's because we saw him care about something more than just enslaving Hyrule for once.
I feel like if Ganondorf was given a bit more human emotion, it would've made more since that he was actually born as the demon king instead of just becoming the demon king stealing some jewel from some ancient people. Wasn't Ganondorf already the reincarnation of Demise or is that just not the case anymore somehow? It's not like we ever learn what motivated Ganondorf to steal it to begin with other than simply obtaining power.
Lastly we must talk about the games ending. I know there's a few parts that I haven't brought up yet like anything about Mineru, or literally questioning how the hell guardians don't exist anymore which is a whole thing into itself but to prevent this post from being too long, I'm just talking about what's really most relevant in the games story.
I find it to be a ridiculous asspull that Zelda turns back into a human simply because Link gave Rauru the channeled power to do some magic garbage on her. I find it rather baffling that she was turned into a dragon and was told she wouldn't be able to turn back but the story retcons this anyways without logically piecing together what could be a cure for Zelda that could work.
Instead they just use magic out of their ass because Link is apparently God in this game. I find it to be really annoying that he also has no real chemistry with Zelda because he's so emotionless and hollow with how he presents feelings towards her. Link in this game just feels like a blank slate of a character.
He's already overpowered when the game first starts and then he's able to fight Ganondorf later by having way less trouble than before. What kind of character progression is that? At least in Twilight Princess or Wind Waker, he starts off weak and grows stronger overtime but in this game, Link just feels like cardboard designed as a plot device for himself and the other character.
There's no sense of scale for his power level and he can just save people from curses and overpower a literal dark lord because the game demands it for the sake of the plot. Not because any of these characters actually feel like people.
Look, this game isn't a bad game and to be fair, I still think it has a lot of good qualities and the game is fun sometimes. Although, it struggles as a whole game mainly because it's nothing really that original as a game and that concerns me. It just feels like Breath Of The Wild with a bit of minor tweak's to it.
Breath Of The Wild despite being a really fun game for me was only a 7/10 because while it was a very fun game, it was lacking with it's story and I also thought the game had issues with weapons breaking all the time and the open world just feeling lifeless sometimes because there were no characters that really felt like they touched my soul.
Tears Of The Kingdom is honestly overall a 6/10 game for me which may be controversial but I'm not afraid to say this game honestly has a lot more problems than some of these other critics are making this game out to be.
I haven't even talked about the actual "Game" part of it yet but there's honestly a lot I could say about this game. If this truly is game of the year this year, than gaming truly is dying and that's literally sad.
Overall, I think the biggest problem with the story in this game is the fact that it's not willing to create or write anything that doesn't have a basic and more complex story structure and that hurts it overall because I see that the game has good ideas but it's not willing to advance further and write stronger story beats because by design, this entire game is too much like Breath Of The Wild and tries to do the same thing but ends up falling apart with some of it's core design.
Can I be one to say that I'm honestly getting sick of Breath Of The Wild? Yes, it was a good game but it was fresh back when it came out in 2017 and Tears Of The Kingdom just feels like a worse replica of that game. It's definitely not way worse than Breath Of The Wild but I actually think that even compared to a game like that, it doesn't quite have all of it's charm.
I'm not a big fan of Tears Of The Kingdom's story. I think it's honestly just a ripoff of Breath Of The Wild's story but also fanfiction writing the origin of Hyrule and failing. I think there was a lot of missing potential for one of the darkest games ever made and it just didn't have enough thought and focus put into it. I think it's characters are shallow, 1-Dimensional, and the story fails because it tries too much to keep the same formula as Breath Of The Wild which holds the story back from breathing air more and focusing on more ideas better.
Please let me know what your take on this games story is. I'm curious. I'm always up for a friendly discussion. Stay tuned for more posts and have a good day.
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I feel like the characters weren’t utilized well to their full potential and the story overall just felt shallow and paper thin with it’s presentation. It was lazy and it was crafted with no direction of creativity. I just think the biggest problem with the story as a whole is that it feels so generically crafted and there’s just not much too it.
I think the biggest issue that exposes this is the way they handled Zelda in this game. I think her lack of agency in the story creates plot holes and many things that actually happen in the game are just left vague with very little detail explaining how things are so the story can be pieced together.
Even right in the beginning of the game I kind of question the motivation of why Zelda and Link decided to go down into a cave and explore Hyrule’s past without really much thought given. I know this is a minor complaint but it kind of bothers me how the whole story in this game is set up just from this happening alone and then they just happen to find Ganondorf just chilling beneath Hyrule Castle and he is somehow powerful enough now to literally disintegrate the master sword with barely any trouble.
I mean, I think it’s cool how he can actually do that now and I love Ganondorf as he’s always been one of my favorite characters of all time and don’t get me wrong but isn’t the master sword like Ganondorf’s one weakness? I think I wouldn’t have a problem that he could do this at all if they at least just bothered to give a bit more solid context as to how Ganondorf can now just overpower Link so easily in the beginning of the game.
The only logic you can come up for why and how Ganondorf can do this is because he acquired Sonia’s stone on his forehead but the game never clearly states this so all you can do is speculate.
This is what I mean about the story being vague because nothing is ever articulated well enough that you actually see an explanation so you can understand what the hell is happening in this game.
Another issue with the games story is how much this game just dumps the same exposition in your face like as if you couldn’t understand simple things that the story tells you meanwhile not being able to focus on anything that could be more subtle like with Zelda being a puppet of Ganondorf throughout 2 thirds of the entire game but doesn’t utilize to it’s fullest potential.
This could’ve been honestly one of the darkest games of all time if they just fixed how they handled Link, Zelda, and Ganondorf. I don’t really like how the characters barely turn against Zelda when they can clearly see that Zelda is doing some really terrible things like how she used Yunobo to turn all his people into slaves that reject work and eat rocks all day, and how she was literally responsible for causing all of Rito Village to suffer a blizzard harshly.
I understand why Queen Sonia didn’t turn against Zelda because she was able to see how she was a fake Zelda right before her eyes but during the entire game where you play as Link, nobody see’s the real Zelda and they’re just left to speculate what the hell is happening.
What we actually got was disappointing as answers. What really happened to Zelda was that it’s revealed that she turned herself into a light dragon after she was told by Mineru that it was forbidden because she wouldn’t be able to turn back and she decides to swallow a stone and turns into a dragon.
Not only does the game not make clear how she travelled back in time to begin with but then it all leads down to a disappointing plot twist that also gets resolved in an instant at the very end of the game but we’ll talk about that more down below.
The reason I state that the game repeats exposition and throws it down your face is because there’s also this one cutscene that gets repeated being shown 4 times as if we didn’t already have a grasp about that Rauru imprisoned Ganondorf after the Imprisoning War. We don’t need to watch the same exact thing happen over and over again after we beat an area and dungeon in the game.
The game has no real sense of progression and instead formulaically copies the same cutscene watered down every time.
I also don’t like a lot of the new characters they make up in the game that are newly introduced. Either they feel like filler characters or their entire existence is contrived to begin with.
Personally I'm going to be honest with you. I'm not a big fan of Rauru as a character. I find it pretty hard to actually believe that he himself is actually the first king of Hyrule mainly because it doesn't actually make any sense from a biological standpoint.
If you're telling me some weird goat dude was the first king of Hyrule and if the Zonai were really responsible for building the kingdom to begin with, then this creates a massive question. How do you explain how the Hylian's rose to power when the Zonai are the creators?
In theory, you could probably argue that Rauru's spirit maybe met some random dude and told him he could be king but the game never hints how that could be the case as like with Ganondorf now having power to destroy the master sword or the situation where Zelda is turned into a dragon is left very vague with nothing deeper than just simply go with whatever nonsense is happening in the plot of this game.
It's not even that I think Rauru is annoying. I just think he's a really boring, uninteresting character who also just has no personally. I think the people honestly making this game didn't bother putting two seconds of thought into how this would work that a goat looking freak of nature is the original king of Hyrule.
I don't actually care about him or the ancestor's which by the way are just bootleg versions of the champions from Breath Of The Wild because the story does nothing developing it's characters past the cookie cutter and basic storyline of good guys must defeat evil demon bad guy that you see recycled a million times.
I actually kind of wonder how if he's actually the king of Hyrule how it never crosses Zelda's mind to wonder if they're somehow biologically related somehow but you know, who'd wonder anything about that right? Nah, let's just go with it right?
A lot of the new side characters are also extremely boring generic archetypes like Tulin who's just some brat who thinks he's tough and then for some reason, Teba who's actually his father just decides to allow Tulin to fight with Link anyways because you gotta have some little kid fighting to relate to babies playing this game and Sona who's extremely aggravating because the writers just thought it would be smart to just add some new forced in love interest who's in love with Sidon even though they've never even been together shown in Breath Of The Wild and have the amount of chemistry as two planks of wood and showing a paper bag being blown beneath your legs.
Not even much to say beyond that regarding these "Characters" if you could even call them that.
Going back to Zelda though, I think the biggest problem with her character arc is that she's utilized about as subtle as raw paper throughout the entire story. I think the biggest problem with her becoming a dragon is that it kind of removes any tension or real stakes of what goes on with her.
I just feel like it would've been a lot cooler in the story if there was more intriguing mystery surrounding why Zelda was acting so strange throughout the entire game because on paper, it is a good concept. I'll give Tears Of The Kingdom credit with that.
It would've been better if the game had you first meet Zelda and then emotionally tries to break Link and hurt all of her friends and then everybody turns against her meanwhile the real Zelda hides in the shadows trying to prove there was an imposter and nobody believes her. That seems like a much better outline for a really dark and gritty story and personally if I was writing this games plot, that would be what it'd be focused on.
Dragon Zelda shouldn't even exist in this game. I thought it was stupid because it took away all the tension that evil Zelda was doing and it wasn't like it wasn't so obvious that Ganondorf was pulling the strings behind Zelda this whole time.
The reason why this is such a terrible plot twist is because it ruins the darker tone this game was trying to aim for with Ganondorf's admittedly cool and dark plan of ruining the belief that Zelda is such a pure and innocent soul as a way to get revenge on the fact he was imprisoned. Breaking people from the inside is a lot darker than breaking them from the outside and that's something I think this game doesn't understand.
Personally I think they also ruined this part of the story because they needed to aim it towards kids and not both kids and adults and I see this as an issue because there's absolutely nothing wrong with an adult having his nostalgia for a video game so that argument would be ridiculous.
It's just a shame that the game's plot isn't as dark as it could've been and would've been a lot more interesting this way.
Now I was maybe just a little bit hard on Ganondorf in this game but to be fair, I don't actually think he was done poorly in this game. I think the final boss in this game minus the part where Ganondorf turns into a dragon was a pretty cool fight and I also think that he does look pretty cool in this game too.
My only real issue with Ganondorf in this game is that I do feel like his characterization is kind of lacking in this game. All of his dialogue is just generic comically evil one liners and it kind of just takes me a bit out of it when I'm just trying to have fun watching Ganondorf kick everybody's ass on screen. Him talking about how he just wants to erase light from this world feels a bit cheesy and I think they could've done a better job making him a bit more serious as a character and really going an extra mile ruining Zelda's reputation as a hero.
I say this not ever because I hate Ganondorf. I say this because I know when things have more potential and they could be done better and I feel like Ganondorf's presentation with his character writing was a bit lacking in this game. I feel like Wind Waker actually did a better job making him feel more human inside but that's because we saw him care about something more than just enslaving Hyrule for once.
I feel like if Ganondorf was given a bit more human emotion, it would've made more since that he was actually born as the demon king instead of just becoming the demon king stealing some jewel from some ancient people. Wasn't Ganondorf already the reincarnation of Demise or is that just not the case anymore somehow? It's not like we ever learn what motivated Ganondorf to steal it to begin with other than simply obtaining power.
Lastly we must talk about the games ending. I know there's a few parts that I haven't brought up yet like anything about Mineru, or literally questioning how the hell guardians don't exist anymore which is a whole thing into itself but to prevent this post from being too long, I'm just talking about what's really most relevant in the games story.
I find it to be a ridiculous asspull that Zelda turns back into a human simply because Link gave Rauru the channeled power to do some magic garbage on her. I find it rather baffling that she was turned into a dragon and was told she wouldn't be able to turn back but the story retcons this anyways without logically piecing together what could be a cure for Zelda that could work.
Instead they just use magic out of their ass because Link is apparently God in this game. I find it to be really annoying that he also has no real chemistry with Zelda because he's so emotionless and hollow with how he presents feelings towards her. Link in this game just feels like a blank slate of a character.
He's already overpowered when the game first starts and then he's able to fight Ganondorf later by having way less trouble than before. What kind of character progression is that? At least in Twilight Princess or Wind Waker, he starts off weak and grows stronger overtime but in this game, Link just feels like cardboard designed as a plot device for himself and the other character.
There's no sense of scale for his power level and he can just save people from curses and overpower a literal dark lord because the game demands it for the sake of the plot. Not because any of these characters actually feel like people.
Look, this game isn't a bad game and to be fair, I still think it has a lot of good qualities and the game is fun sometimes. Although, it struggles as a whole game mainly because it's nothing really that original as a game and that concerns me. It just feels like Breath Of The Wild with a bit of minor tweak's to it.
Breath Of The Wild despite being a really fun game for me was only a 7/10 because while it was a very fun game, it was lacking with it's story and I also thought the game had issues with weapons breaking all the time and the open world just feeling lifeless sometimes because there were no characters that really felt like they touched my soul.
Tears Of The Kingdom is honestly overall a 6/10 game for me which may be controversial but I'm not afraid to say this game honestly has a lot more problems than some of these other critics are making this game out to be.
I haven't even talked about the actual "Game" part of it yet but there's honestly a lot I could say about this game. If this truly is game of the year this year, than gaming truly is dying and that's literally sad.
Overall, I think the biggest problem with the story in this game is the fact that it's not willing to create or write anything that doesn't have a basic and more complex story structure and that hurts it overall because I see that the game has good ideas but it's not willing to advance further and write stronger story beats because by design, this entire game is too much like Breath Of The Wild and tries to do the same thing but ends up falling apart with some of it's core design.
Can I be one to say that I'm honestly getting sick of Breath Of The Wild? Yes, it was a good game but it was fresh back when it came out in 2017 and Tears Of The Kingdom just feels like a worse replica of that game. It's definitely not way worse than Breath Of The Wild but I actually think that even compared to a game like that, it doesn't quite have all of it's charm.
I'm not a big fan of Tears Of The Kingdom's story. I think it's honestly just a ripoff of Breath Of The Wild's story but also fanfiction writing the origin of Hyrule and failing. I think there was a lot of missing potential for one of the darkest games ever made and it just didn't have enough thought and focus put into it. I think it's characters are shallow, 1-Dimensional, and the story fails because it tries too much to keep the same formula as Breath Of The Wild which holds the story back from breathing air more and focusing on more ideas better.
Please let me know what your take on this games story is. I'm curious. I'm always up for a friendly discussion. Stay tuned for more posts and have a good day.
2023.06.05 04:47 lyridsreign [AETHER][MIDGARDSORMR][FC][LFM] JOIN AZURE INFINITUM! A Growing, Global, Inclusive, Active, Organized, and Friendly Community Awaits You! Welcoming Players Of All Experience, Availability, & Play-Style!
We are Azure Infinitum
Visit us at: (https://www.azureinfinitum.com/)
You may have seen us in the Aether data center's party finder during our weekly events, or may have seen our recruitment shouts around the realm in-game in Midgardsormr, but there just isn't enough space in those places to really explain everything wonderful about what our Free Company and community is.
Azure Infinitum is an LGBTQ+ friendly community, and welcomes players of all experience level, play style, and availability. We're a warm home with a balance of online players, weekly optional activities, and flexible ranks from our membership, to our support & leadership categories. We have a 24/7 Support Team, a Councilship that governs each tier, seasonal events of our own, and many resources between the games we support and online services.
Who We Are
We are an established 9-year old community who's home is in Midgardsormr Server of Final Fantasy XIV. We are a structured, well-rounded, welcoming, friendly, and organized community that hosts daily events (check out our calendar: https://azureinfinitum.com/events/ ) that provide opportunity for members to excel. We work to provide an arena and opportunities to establish strong bonds and camaraderie between our members. As a community we are driven, we carry each other forward, and we are proud.
Our Name & Philosophy
Learn more about our global community here: (https://www.azureinfinitum.com/aboutus/)
Learn more about our FFXIV Free Company here: (https://www.azureinfinitum.com/ourffxivfc/)
Azure Infinitum means "Azure/Blue Infinity or Infinite Blue/Azure" and there is some mythos behind the name that stems from our guild-wide philosophy of kindness, freedom, vigilance, diversity and activity. We promote positive fellowship among members in an organized guild, with our sights open to our unending endless skies, full of possibility and success together.
Our motto is "As Free As The Azure Sky!" which stuck well when our FC was restructured from an old guild in 2014 as Azure was founded, and it was first shouted as we looked out at a clear blue sky above. has continued to be our electric victory as we continue to snowball in success and activity, our members soaring high through the Azure Sky, flying together!
Ranks
Click here to learn more about our community ranks: (https://www.azureinfinitum.com/ranks/)
Our community has an organized ranking structure beginning with Members who comprise the majority of the roster. Scouts are our support team of Members who've stepped up to more officially support the FC, some work on obtaining a future leadership rank. Lieutenants and Officers comprise the proud Azure Council, a diverse group of players of different specialties and services to the FC, making up lower and higher tier leadership, seeing over the Scouts and the FC weekly events, aside from being admins. The FC Infinitum Master oversees all and leads the Azure Council and the company forward while always keeping the heart and vision of the community alive and in sight. Currently we are re-assessing ranks in the free company, giving more support permissions and duties to our Scouts, while the current council operates as a small team of Lieutenants lead by the FC Master.
Everyone Welcome and Who Fits Best
We have an open door policy. Whether you're casual, a returning player, a veteran, or a newbie, we have a vast array of players in our member roster. Our weekly schedule is organized and provides an array of activity for players of most levels, however we like to ask players who're pretty new or under the level cap, to be extra vocal about their needs while they're still unable to attend some daily events or higher level content that most of our weekly lineup focuses on. We want everyone to have as much fun as possible and have the most success. We find that most players enjoy Azure Infinitum, many have stated that they subscribed to FFXIV much longer than they ever would have imagined after they have been around in our community, as they've gotten involved and experienced all that we offer.
Our FC keeps a daily schedule (see here: https://www.azureinfinitum.com/events/) of events that are hosted by permitted Scouts and Council ranks, these range from 8-man and 24-man raids and map parties, to WT journal groups and trial clear parties or farms, and more- and attending anything isn't mandatory at all here. We're happy to have you, and its up to our members how much they'd like to get involved. Attendance is optional! There's never any stress to attend FC functions.
Savage Raiding Statement
We find that some hardcore raiders looking for free companies just to join their statics who don't already have one, might not fit well if savage raiding is their only or greatest focus, because traditionally Azure does not have a Savage Static, but focuses more on allowing members to organize their own groups and also provides resources to do so. Despite not supporting an official static for the FC, we hope that hardcore raiders enjoy the wealth of our community's wealth of harmony and overall fun, and that everyone may take initiative to seek out or build a raiding static within our community if they are interested, as opposed to missing out on experiencing Azure. Depending on the content season, we may have an Unofficial static lead by a leader, and routinely offer limited time Savage-learning events that may run for a number of months.
Rules and No Drama Policy
Please take a moment to look over our Rules Page at (https://www.azureinfinitum.com/rules/), we find that rude individuals and people who create drama are the outsiders here that don't fit well. We know its a big page, so at least visit the General Rules section before joining.
Recruitment Care & Activity
People of Azure Infinitum are often if not always good natured players who found their way to our community looking for a place with structure, friendliness, organization, and great activity, or they've been scouted during recruitment drives and have been well screened. Its a place where one can be social and attend everything, or relax in the background and enjoy the services and facilities of being in an active, organized, and friendly FC. We actively recruit periodically to assist with upkeep of community activity levels, and to meet new comrades. A community that closes recruitment can be doomed to stagnation. Its normal for a community to have an inner core of die hards who log in daily regardless of content releases, and also have an outer core of individuals that range from those with less availability to those who check in during Patches. This is why we take extra care in keeping the fresh blood flowing into Azure, cautious recruitment, and support our active model by always staying welcoming and sometimes running recruitment campaigns and other services. Like this ad!
Handling Online Drama
Because we keep a no-drama policy and have a strong communication network, it is leadership's ultimate priority to handle any issues that may come up as soon as possible, and most people appreciate our problem solving which has inspired many other communities. Between our Support & Leadership ranks, we use a number of report and resource channels to handle situations, and perform problem solving protocols & tactics to fairly address issues as possible. Drama is inevitable at some point for any online community, so its important to have a large and strong list of moderators (currently around 60!) and a council of leaders (15+) to quickly handle any problems. Luckily, we don't have a lot of drama, but we're always very well equipped and very prepared. Our community has been commended by game staff in the past for our methods, and we have worked with the FFXIV Special Task Force to ensure as much safety to our community as achievable. It should be stressed that it is up to our membership to report to GM's in-game, and to Azure Leadership should any issues or concerns come up. Its also highly recommended that our members appropriately document evidence that can be used to help us assess situations and make proper decisions. Documenation such as screenshots of harassment is a great example! Our members online safety is greatly important to us and is a number one concern of our leadership team. Our Rules Page at: (https://www.azureinfinitum.com/rules/) describes a bit more in Chapter 3, including other entries on avoiding/ignoring trolls, playing while intoxicated, depression, and more.
Our Philosophy
We believe in our community and its people, how far we can go, how much we can do for each other, being an experienced community who's core values are positive fellowship, formation of bonds, and indomitable unity.
Azure Infinitum tightly grasps success and masters a casual and lucrative weekly play schedule while inspiring motivation and providing avenues for further success, friendships, and camaraderie among all who freely fly together among our Azure skies.
Founding on the principles of intricately forging a generally drama-free experience with keen leadership and a zealous and mighty membership, Azure has striven to guide and support many hundreds of players through every era of Final Fantasy XIV.
With an illustrious history, company lore, impressive statistics, and a model that is adaptable and blessed with innovative ability, Azure Infinitum claims a dominant presence of excellence and player growth that is possible in our community and extended services.
Estate Organization
We have the entire set-up at our estate, from gardens for members and Krakka Root production (free for members' chocobos), to our stables, nicely uniform clean lawn with hangout spots that are popular, with crafting stations, all available NPCs for simple mats and repairs, cut-scene viewer, toybox, triple-triad board, a fully operational and geared fleet of airships and subs, and our Azure Infinitum Assembly Chamber on the top floor for our meetings where announcements are made at our Grand Assemblies. Check it out if you like at Mist Ward 7 Plot 1.
We also have an organized form of gathering for weekly events in the yard, places to relax, food that is always available on tables at our Cellar, and hold a lot of special events and social games at our Hall. We're also conveniently located next to a Market Board and a Retainer Bell outside of our estate.
Communication and Extended Azure Services
We have multiple services of which none are mandatory, but we provide being (azureinfinitum.com) where our Forums, Event Calendar, News, Company Meeting Summaries, Seasonal Merch Giveaways, Contests, Rules Page, and more take place and can be found. We also have a popular and active Discord Server.
We also have a Facebook Group, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, Steam Group, (Look us up! Or visit: (https://www.azureinfinitum.com/socialmedia/) and Linkshells like our Infinitum Alliance LS for contact and aid from our allies if needed, our Azure Hunters LS for Hunters, and our Azure Industry LS which connects our members to our inner crafting/gathering community for newbies to pros.
Also worthy of mention is our big Company Meetings in-game, known as Azure Infinitum Grand Assemblies. Even though we have several avenues that keep people connected, our live assemblies gather the FC in unity where announcements are made first, and all proposals, ideas, and more, can be decided together live with the Azure Council present.
This network ensures a lot of information and communication gets around and has been exceedingly useful to us.
More On Events
One part of our reputation that often precedes us is our event crafting and hosting.
First, let me make sure its clear that attendance is never mandatory, but those who can make use, when possible, of what we provide each day, benefit from our events each week.
Since our beginning, traditions like our Thursday Treasure Thursdays events have run each week. Our weekly line-up presently begins on Tuesdays post-weekly reset, and consists of Raid Tuesdays, Wondrous Wednesdays (WT Journal Parties, often doubles as Trial Clears and Pony Drops), Treasure Thursdays (Endwalker's timeworn maps with groups of 8 doing up to 3 rounds of maps allowing for up to 24 maps ran), 24-Man Tuesdays (full pre-formed Azure 24-member alliances are made and raids are cleared, will be returning upon the release of EW's 24-man), Super Azure Slayer Sunday (our weekly meetup to do all sorts of PVP content be it Rival Wings or Frontline), and Monstrous Mondays (helps clear the current and previous patch extreme trials).
Special, Seasonal, and Quarterly Events
More info here: (https://www.azureinfinitum.com/azureday/)See the latest event news & more at: (https://www.azureinfinitum.com/news/)
We also have what we call Special and Quarterly Events. These types of events are Weekend-Long-Events that usually consist of a theme or celebratory social events we craft. During these events we hold big Riddle Races, Costume/Glamour shows and contests, 3-Story Mansion Maze Races, Speedrun Dungeon Races, Hide and Seek games, Custom Quest Events, Discord events like Cards Against Humanity nights, Comedy events, PVP Tournament Circuits, and more.
Our Special and Quarterly events are Azure Day Weekend (Takes place 3 times a year across a weekend, celebrates the FC), Azure Summer Festival (3-days at the end of August in partnership with Child's Play, raises money for children in long-term care, anniversary of historic FC event called the Lunar Rebellion), Anniversary Azure Day (a big weekend event in November that celebrates our Founding), Azure Day Saint's Wake (celebrates Halloween/All Saint's Wake), Azure Starlight Day (celebrating Starlight Day/Christmas/December Holiday Season), Azure Grand Melee and Duel Tournaments (PVP Circuit series crowning our PVP Champions) and more.
Azure Day Weekends
If you've been around our server you may have heard of our Azure Day Weekends. Our Azure Days take place quarterly as mentioned just above, with four evolved editions called Azure Summer Festival, Azure Day Saint's Wake, Azure Starlight Day, and Anniversary Azure Day. With Azure Day Weekends and related events traditionally occuring quarterly our members are always excited to see the next big weekend of crazy and fun social games, and our showering of the free company in gil and prizes galore. We go all out when we celebrate the free company, and Azure Days are another way we find for leadership to give back to the community. 2023 and beyond is now host to additional seasonal Azure Day events!
We're always giving our members a chance to have fun, win big, and make some great memories in the in-game family we've become. Something fun is always on the horizon in Azure.
Community
I almost can't stress enough how friendly our community is. We have a vast variety of members from hardcore gatherers and crafters, social butterflies, chill veterans, experienced raiders, level grinders, support teams, PVP aficionados, mechanic specialists, and mentors. We're also very friendly to all casual players as well and we keep an open door so long as recruits are always aware that we have a no-drama tolerance here.
Evolution into a Gaming Clan & Network
Plans are in the works and foundations are being laid that is slowly turning our community into a larger gaming network, with our first established Azure Wing with regular occurring activity being founded in Monster Hunter World, this has led to a successful Destiny 2 clan and more. Becoming a member of our Discord and/or Free Company now means access to things like our huge discord, Azure Wing membership in other games, and being able to join in on any of our other activities in the general community. Azure Network as its being called at the moment, is growing with an all-new website and community features for playing together across Final Fantasy XIV and to Azure Skies beyond!
Activity
We rank high as one of the top FC's in Worldwide Activity on lodestone, and have for a long time. Most of our players are divided between the US East and West Coasts, members in East and West Canada, and a few outside the US or in EU or Aus zones. Because we do have an activity policy (mentioned below) we keep a standard flow of people, and have crowds in the early morning, late morning, early afternoon, afternoon, evening, and late night crowds.
Elitism isn't our style. Our community boasts a broad range of characters, great personalities, the proud, and also some silly goofs. But elitism isn't welcome, no matter how successful we are or how large we grow. We're always welcoming towards fresh faces interested in joining our guild, and the in-game activity ranges between 30-60+ online at once during prime time hours, sometimes around 70+ on patch days, and usually always with half the roster logging in throughout a 24 hour period, and around 15-30+ during the night.
Activity Policy
We ask that our members do not go missing without logging in for more than 60 days straight. If we hear word from someone or have some kind of decent excuse, we place our members on our On Vacation rank, which lasts presently until 90 days have passed. Exceptions are made for military deployments, hospital stays, financial issues, disability/health related issues, moving, or other reasons that might fall on a case-by-case basis.
All members not heard from in 60 days (roughly 2 months) or currently 90 days (roughly 3 months) are discharged. We allow 3 joins to Azure Infinitum in total, but exceptions can be made due to reasons listed above. If removed for inactivity, or you've left our FC for another reason and haven't already joined 3 times, you're always welcome back, but please remember, we are not a revolving door.
Keeping our roster full of members who have been online and presently play the game actively ensures an active environment for our players who play often. It also keeps our credits and clerical processes balanced across our network, and allows space for new faces to join our big happy in-game family of comrades.
How to Join
Quick Instructions here for joinin us in FFXIV & more: (https://www.azureinfinitum.com/howtojoinazure/)
If you are interested in joining our Azure Infinitum free company, please register an application at our site and/or FC in-game. You can also seek any of our Scouts, Lieutenants, Officers, or the Master of Azure Infinitum in-game and ask for an invite. You can find their names on the roster page at our website.
If you read everything on this page, you are awesome, and you should let anyone you talk to who recruits you know that you read everything on this page which will greatly expedite your invitation to join.
If you have any questions whatsoever feel free to send a /tell in-game to me or any of our Scouts or Lieutenants listed on our official roster here: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/freecompany/9232519973597911137/membe
You can also message us at our FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/AzureInfinitum
Discord here: https://discord.gg/azureinfinitum
Twitter: https://twitter.com/azureinfinitum
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/azure_infinitum/
Main Site: https://www.azureinfinitum.com/
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Visit us at: (https://www.azureinfinitum.com/)
You may have seen us in the Aether data center's party finder during our weekly events, or may have seen our recruitment shouts around the realm in-game in Midgardsormr, but there just isn't enough space in those places to really explain everything wonderful about what our Free Company and community is.
Azure Infinitum is an LGBTQ+ friendly community, and welcomes players of all experience level, play style, and availability. We're a warm home with a balance of online players, weekly optional activities, and flexible ranks from our membership, to our support & leadership categories. We have a 24/7 Support Team, a Councilship that governs each tier, seasonal events of our own, and many resources between the games we support and online services.
Who We Are
We are an established 9-year old community who's home is in Midgardsormr Server of Final Fantasy XIV. We are a structured, well-rounded, welcoming, friendly, and organized community that hosts daily events (check out our calendar: https://azureinfinitum.com/events/ ) that provide opportunity for members to excel. We work to provide an arena and opportunities to establish strong bonds and camaraderie between our members. As a community we are driven, we carry each other forward, and we are proud.
Our Name & Philosophy
Learn more about our global community here: (https://www.azureinfinitum.com/aboutus/)
Learn more about our FFXIV Free Company here: (https://www.azureinfinitum.com/ourffxivfc/)
Azure Infinitum means "Azure/Blue Infinity or Infinite Blue/Azure" and there is some mythos behind the name that stems from our guild-wide philosophy of kindness, freedom, vigilance, diversity and activity. We promote positive fellowship among members in an organized guild, with our sights open to our unending endless skies, full of possibility and success together.
Our motto is "As Free As The Azure Sky!" which stuck well when our FC was restructured from an old guild in 2014 as Azure was founded, and it was first shouted as we looked out at a clear blue sky above.
Ranks
Click here to learn more about our community ranks: (https://www.azureinfinitum.com/ranks/)
Our community has an organized ranking structure beginning with Members who comprise the majority of the roster. Scouts are our support team of Members who've stepped up to more officially support the FC, some work on obtaining a future leadership rank. Lieutenants and Officers comprise the proud Azure Council, a diverse group of players of different specialties and services to the FC, making up lower and higher tier leadership, seeing over the Scouts and the FC weekly events, aside from being admins. The FC Infinitum Master oversees all and leads the Azure Council and the company forward while always keeping the heart and vision of the community alive and in sight. Currently we are re-assessing ranks in the free company, giving more support permissions and duties to our Scouts, while the current council operates as a small team of Lieutenants lead by the FC Master.
Everyone Welcome and Who Fits Best
We have an open door policy. Whether you're casual, a returning player, a veteran, or a newbie, we have a vast array of players in our member roster. Our weekly schedule is organized and provides an array of activity for players of most levels, however we like to ask players who're pretty new or under the level cap, to be extra vocal about their needs while they're still unable to attend some daily events or higher level content that most of our weekly lineup focuses on. We want everyone to have as much fun as possible and have the most success. We find that most players enjoy Azure Infinitum, many have stated that they subscribed to FFXIV much longer than they ever would have imagined after they have been around in our community, as they've gotten involved and experienced all that we offer.
Our FC keeps a daily schedule (see here: https://www.azureinfinitum.com/events/) of events that are hosted by permitted Scouts and Council ranks, these range from 8-man and 24-man raids and map parties, to WT journal groups and trial clear parties or farms, and more- and attending anything isn't mandatory at all here. We're happy to have you, and its up to our members how much they'd like to get involved. Attendance is optional! There's never any stress to attend FC functions.
Savage Raiding Statement
We find that some hardcore raiders looking for free companies just to join their statics who don't already have one, might not fit well if savage raiding is their only or greatest focus, because traditionally Azure does not have a Savage Static, but focuses more on allowing members to organize their own groups and also provides resources to do so. Despite not supporting an official static for the FC, we hope that hardcore raiders enjoy the wealth of our community's wealth of harmony and overall fun, and that everyone may take initiative to seek out or build a raiding static within our community if they are interested, as opposed to missing out on experiencing Azure. Depending on the content season, we may have an Unofficial static lead by a leader, and routinely offer limited time Savage-learning events that may run for a number of months.
Rules and No Drama Policy
Please take a moment to look over our Rules Page at (https://www.azureinfinitum.com/rules/), we find that rude individuals and people who create drama are the outsiders here that don't fit well. We know its a big page, so at least visit the General Rules section before joining.
Recruitment Care & Activity
People of Azure Infinitum are often if not always good natured players who found their way to our community looking for a place with structure, friendliness, organization, and great activity, or they've been scouted during recruitment drives and have been well screened. Its a place where one can be social and attend everything, or relax in the background and enjoy the services and facilities of being in an active, organized, and friendly FC. We actively recruit periodically to assist with upkeep of community activity levels, and to meet new comrades. A community that closes recruitment can be doomed to stagnation. Its normal for a community to have an inner core of die hards who log in daily regardless of content releases, and also have an outer core of individuals that range from those with less availability to those who check in during Patches. This is why we take extra care in keeping the fresh blood flowing into Azure, cautious recruitment, and support our active model by always staying welcoming and sometimes running recruitment campaigns and other services. Like this ad!
Handling Online Drama
Because we keep a no-drama policy and have a strong communication network, it is leadership's ultimate priority to handle any issues that may come up as soon as possible, and most people appreciate our problem solving which has inspired many other communities. Between our Support & Leadership ranks, we use a number of report and resource channels to handle situations, and perform problem solving protocols & tactics to fairly address issues as possible. Drama is inevitable at some point for any online community, so its important to have a large and strong list of moderators (currently around 60!) and a council of leaders (15+) to quickly handle any problems. Luckily, we don't have a lot of drama, but we're always very well equipped and very prepared. Our community has been commended by game staff in the past for our methods, and we have worked with the FFXIV Special Task Force to ensure as much safety to our community as achievable. It should be stressed that it is up to our membership to report to GM's in-game, and to Azure Leadership should any issues or concerns come up. Its also highly recommended that our members appropriately document evidence that can be used to help us assess situations and make proper decisions. Documenation such as screenshots of harassment is a great example! Our members online safety is greatly important to us and is a number one concern of our leadership team. Our Rules Page at: (https://www.azureinfinitum.com/rules/) describes a bit more in Chapter 3, including other entries on avoiding/ignoring trolls, playing while intoxicated, depression, and more.
Our Philosophy
We believe in our community and its people, how far we can go, how much we can do for each other, being an experienced community who's core values are positive fellowship, formation of bonds, and indomitable unity.
Azure Infinitum tightly grasps success and masters a casual and lucrative weekly play schedule while inspiring motivation and providing avenues for further success, friendships, and camaraderie among all who freely fly together among our Azure skies.
Founding on the principles of intricately forging a generally drama-free experience with keen leadership and a zealous and mighty membership, Azure has striven to guide and support many hundreds of players through every era of Final Fantasy XIV.
With an illustrious history, company lore, impressive statistics, and a model that is adaptable and blessed with innovative ability, Azure Infinitum claims a dominant presence of excellence and player growth that is possible in our community and extended services.
Estate Organization
We have the entire set-up at our estate, from gardens for members and Krakka Root production (free for members' chocobos), to our stables, nicely uniform clean lawn with hangout spots that are popular, with crafting stations, all available NPCs for simple mats and repairs, cut-scene viewer, toybox, triple-triad board, a fully operational and geared fleet of airships and subs, and our Azure Infinitum Assembly Chamber on the top floor for our meetings where announcements are made at our Grand Assemblies. Check it out if you like at Mist Ward 7 Plot 1.
We also have an organized form of gathering for weekly events in the yard, places to relax, food that is always available on tables at our Cellar, and hold a lot of special events and social games at our Hall. We're also conveniently located next to a Market Board and a Retainer Bell outside of our estate.
Communication and Extended Azure Services
We have multiple services of which none are mandatory, but we provide being (azureinfinitum.com) where our Forums, Event Calendar, News, Company Meeting Summaries, Seasonal Merch Giveaways, Contests, Rules Page, and more take place and can be found. We also have a popular and active Discord Server.
We also have a Facebook Group, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, Steam Group, (Look us up! Or visit: (https://www.azureinfinitum.com/socialmedia/) and Linkshells like our Infinitum Alliance LS for contact and aid from our allies if needed, our Azure Hunters LS for Hunters, and our Azure Industry LS which connects our members to our inner crafting/gathering community for newbies to pros.
Also worthy of mention is our big Company Meetings in-game, known as Azure Infinitum Grand Assemblies. Even though we have several avenues that keep people connected, our live assemblies gather the FC in unity where announcements are made first, and all proposals, ideas, and more, can be decided together live with the Azure Council present.
This network ensures a lot of information and communication gets around and has been exceedingly useful to us.
More On Events
One part of our reputation that often precedes us is our event crafting and hosting.
First, let me make sure its clear that attendance is never mandatory, but those who can make use, when possible, of what we provide each day, benefit from our events each week.
Since our beginning, traditions like our Thursday Treasure Thursdays events have run each week. Our weekly line-up presently begins on Tuesdays post-weekly reset, and consists of Raid Tuesdays, Wondrous Wednesdays (WT Journal Parties, often doubles as Trial Clears and Pony Drops), Treasure Thursdays (Endwalker's timeworn maps with groups of 8 doing up to 3 rounds of maps allowing for up to 24 maps ran), 24-Man Tuesdays (full pre-formed Azure 24-member alliances are made and raids are cleared, will be returning upon the release of EW's 24-man), Super Azure Slayer Sunday (our weekly meetup to do all sorts of PVP content be it Rival Wings or Frontline), and Monstrous Mondays (helps clear the current and previous patch extreme trials).
Special, Seasonal, and Quarterly Events
More info here: (https://www.azureinfinitum.com/azureday/)See the latest event news & more at: (https://www.azureinfinitum.com/news/)
We also have what we call Special and Quarterly Events. These types of events are Weekend-Long-Events that usually consist of a theme or celebratory social events we craft. During these events we hold big Riddle Races, Costume/Glamour shows and contests, 3-Story Mansion Maze Races, Speedrun Dungeon Races, Hide and Seek games, Custom Quest Events, Discord events like Cards Against Humanity nights, Comedy events, PVP Tournament Circuits, and more.
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2023.06.05 04:33 smolcrackheadenergy TWICE's Between 1&2 💞 11th Mini Album Review
Hello, kpopthoughts! Originally this was posted in twice but one of my friends said I should crosspost it here — so here this album review is.
And yes, this is 9 months late 😭 I'm not sorry — when I find an album review online it's always around a paragraph per song or even shorter. It makes sense from a journalistic perspective, but I want to do this album justice, hence taking 7 months to write out all my thoughts.
This shit is comprehensive and definitely overanalyzed, especially in Talk that Talk and Trouble. Each song review will compose of my commentary, noting the details I noticed through months of listening, then a conclusion. Also, mild swearing warning, I like implementing a touch of "French" when I'm very emotional about something. Anyway, onto the review!
TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT
TELL ME WHAT YOU NEED
One of the most perfect TWICE songs.
I think this is one of TWICE’s best-sounding title tracks. Warm modulated synths, a thrumming bass line, distant bells, shimmering synths — the purpose of this song is to be fun and my god is it excellent at it, like, Sana and Chaeyoung are saying knock-knock-knock and beep-beep-beep as if they’re some kind of car. So much fun.
Further along in the verse, Dahyun’s voice sounds so full and smooth with that layered harmony. Tzuyu coming with the Yes or Yes, Push & Pull, and 1 to 10 references — these are 5 years of song references. And Jeongyeon closes the pre-chorus accompanied by a rising synth to drop into chorus one. Jeongyeon slays pre-choruses.
The drums accelerate, the synths start blasting, and Jihyo opens to that party of a chorus with her godly vocals,
During Sana's Talk that Talk~ lines there’s this gentle ascending synth bell that rings with the descending melody and it sounds absolutely gorgeous. And the choreography during that part of the chorus is so so so so fun: the talking hands bit, spelling L-O-V-E, concluding with the deullyeojweo ooh! Oh my Jihyo the deullyeojweo ooh…
Have I mentioned this song is fun?
Speeding through verse 2; Chaeyoung’s part with the cat ears popping in the music video is adorable; Momo her stretching her arms out looks so damn cool; and Dahyun with her replay part sounds so lovely — although I think it sonically sounds a touch random, it makes sense thematically.
And now for this pre-chorus. Mina and Jihyo leading into it sound great BUT JEONGYEON… Now, she is my ult bias, and this pre-chorus sounds almost identical to the first one, but the way she holds that final note, inflecting and holding that now~ for one more beat before the chorus drops sounds so perfect — the song teeters on a cliff edge. Jeongyeon slays pre-choruses.
Dropping into the second chorus and man the way Nayeon delivers it just hits different. She has this indescribable “pop” voice (I promise this wasn't on purpose) that shouts out loud that this is THE chorus. This is especially apparent in how both lead their choruses where Jihyo starts at 120% power while Nayeon waits until [Tell me] WHAT YOU WANT to full-send it. The production also helps with this effect, cutting out during what you to emphasize Nayeon's voice before crashing back down, double the pause at Jihyo's intro.
Another deullyeojweo ooh! Nayeon travels to Narnia, and Mina the engineer strikes again in this heavenly, underwater-esque bridge,
The word “love” is said for the first time in the song. There’s a funky keyboard instrument behind Chaeyoung’s part. Jihyo, Chaeyoung, and Nayeon take the initiative in their lyrics, professing their love before closing the bridge.
And now for the pièce-de-résistance: this final double chorus is exceptional — 40 seconds of crack-laced euphoria; Jihyo switches up the chorus and the choreo, Dahyun chimes in with her fluttery Talk that Talk, Momo comes out of nowhere with oh yeah it sounds so good! — you’re damn right it does, and this is where the song SOARS.
Nayeon outright shouts Tell me what you need and then Jeongyeon sings the above lines in such an ethereal, warm way where the first line ascends while the second descends, causing a lull in the song before the finale with Tzuyu and Nayeon, finishing off the song with the final deullyeojweo ooh!
What a party. What a song.
THE GOOD
Lyrics and theme-wise, if this were to have been TWICE’s last comeback, they’ve once again built upon the theme they've been doing since debut: a Bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story.
This song’s chorus is honest yet simple; it asks the listener, in this case, the other half of the relationship, to be more upfront and open with their love (never be scared of love), that before the relationship can continue and flourish, there has to be a foundation and commitment of love between each other.
TWICE debuted with a song about making your crush go ooh ahh. Years later, they started pondering What is Love? and imagining their crush responding with Yes when asking them out — and now concluding with the phrase Talk that Talk, [Talk that] L-O-V-E, being upfront with the relationship, wishing their partner to also be happy, to commit to them, to feel the love that they want to impart on them. From gawking like ooh-ahh to talking out your shared love like adults — to having a true relationship between (one and) two.
And can I just say before finishing off Talk that Talk's review that this is such a fun and repeatable song with many little intricacies hidden in the nonet’s vocals and the song's production. This is the third draft I’m writing about Talk that Talk and its original word count pretty much quadrupled.
Harkening back to TWICE’s roots by combining mature thinking with youthful character, an incredible ending to look forward to, and just simply being a club-banger that’s easy to listen to, TTT is an easy 10/10.
WATCH ME GO WATCH ME GO
RULE THE WORLD
If there was one B-side to promote in a live clip, this was a solid choice.
Helmed by LDN Noise going headlong into the Western boy-group rock-band aesthetic, Queen of Hearts is a boom-boom-clap song through and through. The drums are very prominent throughout the song, only giving room to riffs of electric guitar in the chorus to drive and continue the momentum of the music.
And speaking of the chorus, vocal line each got a chorus to flex and they did not fuck around,
Cymbals crashing, drums booming, and 3MIX belting all just so sound so good.
These long, held-out notes performed by Jihyo and Nayeon are simply exquisite. Along with the shredding guitar, the drum set coming in full, and the interludes by Dahyun, Momo, and Chaeyoung, this is the part of the song that always, always, gives me goosebumps — it sounds so visceral, so energetic, so fun, so triumphant. Boom-boom-clap songs can be hit or miss with people, but there's no denying the payoff from the first part of the chorus to the second part is worth the wait.
The theme of the song so far has been kind of spread around the song. The chorus alludes to it with the line And it’s all because of you. But Mina shows more sides of it in the second verse, especially with the phrase,
It sounds really lovely — in a very cheesy and affectionate kind of way, as it rightfully should — the song is about the girls and their fans. But the bridge is where the song indeed shows its colours
This is a song CONCEIVED TO BE PERFORMED FOR THE FANS. It’s meant to be loud. It’s meant to be unapologetic. It’s meant to be sappy. And it’s all the more wonderful for it.
This is the TWICEiest shit ever.
Like Talk that Talk, Queen of Hearts also has a killer closer. The production already started to grow from the bridge, but now the guitarist finally went Super Saiyan and instead of supporting the drums, they both take the centre stage in tandem.
Then finally, the closing moments of the song even manage to squeeze in some more sappiness.
I still can’t believe that this banger is a FAN SONG out of all things. Truly, the TWICEiest shit ever.
THE GOOD
I love these types of rock songs with how grunge and head-bang-able they are, there is just a certain nostalgic and cheesy quality to them that feels so cozy. I don’t love putting them on repeat, because in this case, I do believe there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. Perhaps more shredding, maybe a guitar solo to rock out to, or an accompaniment(!) of ad-libs from 3MIX to support Jihyo’s final chorus? A ONCE can dream of a truly bombastic rock song from TWICE. But then again that distracts from the core of what this song is: a fan song disguised as a rock song.
Queen of Hearts has so much sweetness in its lyrics and message that it's overflowing. The drums, guitar, and vocals can be as loud and intricate as they can, but the theme of this song is what makes it special from TWICE’s other rock songs — it’s a 9/10 for me.
I WANNA WANNA WANNA
TAKE YOU TO THE BASICS
Quite possibly the jammiest (pun intended) song of the album.
A song written by the Strawberry Princess herself — an event similar in frequency to other artists' releases with her last song being 2020’s silky Handle It — Basics first starts with an understated and dreamy delivery. After the first stanza, however, a bouncy Miami bass line emerges, revealing the true nature of the song: this is a classic summer bop! Especially in the first rap,
Syllables are pronounced in a relaxed nature, bars often starting with an "ah" sound, flirty lines in English — this rap features a production full of pop with R&B flourishes and, in my opinion, this is Chaeyoung’s bag. Also, the line rainbow bubblegum is so adorable and so Chaeyoung.
That chorus is pure pop with a Miami bass backing; you better be bopping your head to the melody, if not booty poppin' to the bassline. Chaeyoung loves rhyming in the first half of the chorus to enhance its catchiness and it's damn incredible: wanna, weonhae, and ppeonhae all create these imperfect rhymes that continue momentum without feeling repetitive.
After the very Boy With Luv-sounding ah yeah ah yeah, ah yeah ah yeah comes an 8-bar split half and half between Chaeyoung and Momo. Coming from the chorus, the production completely cuts out for the first 2 bars. This adds tension; the song yearns to have that bass beat thumping again and all we have in the audio space in those 2 bars is Chaeyoung spittin' and she delivered.
Translating to:
The rap feels slick, effortless, and confident. Her diction remains sharp when enunciating each syllable but she doesn’t let the flow of her rap waver or build as her 4 bars go by, it’s just smooth consistency throughout. Even the lyrics possess an aura of laid-back collectedness that is just so her. The things Chaeyoung can do when given her pen.
THE GOOD
This song is summer bliss distilled into 2:56. It’s dreamy, the raps are satisfying, and the ending is charming. I will say that although the second half of the song adds the stunning spaceship post-choruses and a floaty bridge with an incredible drumbeat drop into the final chorus, the raps of the song make it feel a bit front-loaded. And in an album stacked with awesome finishers, it feels more apparent.
With that said, it’s an 8/10 bop for me. This song is so easy to put on and it feels exactly what Chaeyoung would make if given the reins to produce a pop song all on her own. The lyrics are nonchalant but full of conviction, the wordplay is intricate, and the production playful but not too bombastic — it's just a nice vibe. Songs like Basics are the standard for good, simple, repeatable pop music and I’m happy that Chaeyoung got to test her pen in this genre.
BABY WE’RE IN
TROUBLE TROUBLE
Produced by Jihyo and earattack
One of the most enjoyable songs I’ve heard in a while.
There is an underlying tension within the first 4 bars of the song, Jihyo and Nayeon confidently open it to a nondescript array of synths and then the stanza ends, Momo announces Let’s go, the beat drops and it hits you: this is a club song.
Dahyun's relaxed delivery contrasting with Jeongyeon's staccato flow, the wobbly synth beat mixed with a sprinkle of house piano, Sana dramatically slowing down the song only for Tzuyu to build it back up until the chorus drops,
This chorus is perfect. Toronto’s residential market needs this song injected into its veins because god damn this song has SO much house in it. And then, ANOTHER KILLING PART: this rap fucking slaps.
During the first 2 bars, Chaeyoung is keeping it calm because that trip of a chorus just ended and the song needs a breather, but I don't think anyone expected her to SNAP this hard afterwards:
Below is the structure of her this portion of the rap, I’m not that well versed in this technical aspect of music theory but I digress, this is all in the span of around 5 seconds where it’s:
Now, 25/5 = 5 syllables per second isn’t groundbreaking, but goddamn it these 2 bars sound so nice — if there is one part in this album that I always repeat, it’s this. The addition of that first quadruplet for cannot miss this in the midst of the triplets sticks out and accelerates the flow of the rap while the following doublets and quadruplets destabilize and slow the rap down as the verse closes. And can I just point out:
THE MAIN VOCALIST WROTE, DIRECTED, AND COMPOSED THIS SONG ‼
Chaeyoung of course delivered the fuck out of her verse but THIS is what you get when you have a member not only write the words they’re saying but also the melody and flow with which they sing it, when that member knows the others so well that when they write a song they know how to make the group exceed. This is what you get when the artists you stan love doing artist shit.
And. AND. That's not all — with how much I mentioned I love a good outro to close a song, this outro slaps as well:
Like, come on, Nayeon’s imitating a police siren for crying out loud. And this is all after her ad-libs in the final post-chorus; after the pianist going full tilt and playing that piano as if it was their last chance to ever play; after that final T W I C E chant by all the members come these blissful 20 seconds at the very end. What a song.
THE GOOD
Need I say more, easy 9/10. The only reason I place Talk that Talk above Trouble is because of what that song represents but besides that, this is one of the best “international” sounds they’ve put out. Actually, I haven’t listened to Eyes wide open in a while but this song is up there with one of the most sonically pleasing pieces of work they’ve done.
Clubbing TWICE has always been a thing since TT was birthed in 2016, and has been a staple of their discography since 2019’s Fancy You and Feel Special mini albums, but Trouble unapologetically dives into and fits the house genre so well you’d think that this is TWICE’s bread and butter sound.
Trouble is Jihyo’s magnum opus. What a song.
BRAVE BRAVE BRAVE
FOR YOU
I first thought this was just a good song, then I read the lyrics.
Gentle guitar plucks, shimmering synths, a distant keyboard in the right ear, in the left a glockenspiel, the melodic oohs from the members — this song is PRETTY.
Mina and Chaeyoung open the song with how they feel lonely, that it's hard to breathe and now suddenly the song feels bittersweet — I was not expecting the song to become this emotional. Brave describes a situation where the singer is in a darker place in life and it isn't until another person gives them hope by calling them Brave that they find the drive to keep going.
Once the chorus hits, the melodies pick up, more guitars get added — there’s even an electric guitar hidden in the mix somewhere, and the song drops the emotional front to reveal a mid-tempo pop song to dance to while crying in the club. The song as a whole still carries this melancholy feeling, but now with the added support of the chorus, acting as a light amongst the gloom.
Continuing on in the second verse there's this gorgeous, well-placed break in the song that just lets it settle after that chorus. Only a seasoned producer would risk this much empty space in a song and Slow Rabbit went to fill those shoes.
Back to the chorus, I'll take this moment to once again commend Slow Rabbit with the mixing of the song, because 4MIX undoubtedly sounds good in the chorus, and the interludes from Dahyun, Chaeyoung, and Mina also sound really good, but the clear highlight of the choruses are these lines:
Momo, Sana, and Tzuyu form this beautiful, surprisingly catchy, second half of the chorus accompanied by a guitar drop. It should not turn out this well with how conflicting the "na"s are with the guitar melody but it creates this gentle bopping ebb and flow that feels so lush and mellow.
Diving into the bridge reveals that the listener of the song is revealed not only capable of supporting the singer through direct words but also through their thoughts and dreams. As can be discerned, this can be a song interpreted to be about ONCEs, about how they push TWICE to be their best selves despite the breathless hardships they face. It's a very sweet and touching song.
THE GOOD
I’m actually spoiled with the TWICE members’ easy-to-understand songwriting that when a song like this pops up where it's not written by a member and the thematic bits are mostly in Korean, I tend to put it aside in favour of the other songs on the album. And, especially for a song focusing on a theme like this where the English phrases don’t do the Korean lyrics enough justice, it does place a bit of a barrier on the listening experience, dropping it down to a 7/10 from an 8/10.
With that anecdote out of the way, this song is just such a vibe, man. I know that sounds super hippy to say but Brave is so mellow and smooth that I can’t help but sway a little when that chorus hits. And then I remember what the lyrics say and I tear up a bit on the inside. This song is so pure, raw, and full of heart — we need more songs like these where they just reminisce about life while putting up an upbeat front. Don't mind me just crying while dancing the night away.
With that said, this isn't the first time this theme has been sung by TWICE either, they've long trodden this path of supportive, confiding, up-lifting songs with Young & Wild, Rainbow, Queen, Go Hard, Depend on You, even this album's Queen of Hearts, and, of course, Feel Special. Brave just adds another on top of an already stacked lineup, unique with its mellow somberness.
Also now feels like a good time to get into my rating system:
I SEE THE LIES
ON THE TIP OF YOUR TONGUE
Who the fuck pissed off Dubu this time??
It’s getting quite rare to see TWICE pull off brand new sounds because, with now 190 original songs under their belt as of this review, they’ve done so many genres and sub-genres varying from hyper pop, to bossa nova, to whatever 2020’s Go Hard is. So it’s surprising to see they’ve still got tricks up their sleeves and Gone is one of them.
The song starts with strings swinging back and forth and vocal chops dancing from ear to ear, teasing what’s yet to come. Jihyo enters the song with a whisper and the song sets its pace. A stagnant drum pad moves the song along and typical song progression would have Mina continue the build, but — it doesn’t. The song simmers, adding a hint of high hat to the pot. And then Sana and Tzuyu come on and surely the buildup must boil over right?
Silence, until…
The strings emerge again on full blast, the simmer rolls to a boil, and the anger of the song is revealed,
The singer is so scorned and burned from this relationship that they reminisce about all the effort they’ve put in since the beginning, but their “partner” is so unconcerned that they’ve just about had enough of the relationship altogether.
This has been Dahyun’s thing since 2020’s Bring It Back, 2021’s Cruel, 2022’s That’s all I’m saying, and even 2023's Don't Blame It On Me — emotionally charged breakup songs that make you feel as if she’s survived through a dozen bad relationships. Dispatch, do try to do your job better.
Another highlight of the song is the post-chorus going into the bridge. This segment reiterates the structure from the first post-chorus — a barrage of drums supported by the rhythmic strumming of a bass guitar along with a consistent synth filling out the soundscape. But this time, it’s Dahyun and Chaeyoung on the rap:
Building upon the disrespected theme of the song, Dahyun notes that she’s finally had enough with Chaeyoung adding that there’s no point salvaging what love was once there. Momo and Dahyun round it off by telling the listener that there’s no point trying to reason with them or playing naive, they fucked up and there’s no coming back.
Can I just say, it's a bit of a shame that Chaeyoung’s rapping popped off in this album while Dahyun only has this one verse that she shares with Chaeyoung, but it just sounds so good how Dahyun eases in after the chorus with her light rapping tone transitioning into her singing. She even holds the Gone in a little crescendo for some added pizzazz.
And, there’s no way I’m not going to talk about Momo’s vocals in this bridge. Damned if she only got 1 line to use it in, her lower register is incredible. She sounds so smooth singing in this tone. All of TWICE do in particular and there is nary a weak vocal performance in this album.
To close the song off, a wash of synths gets to have their shine in the spotlight, showered with Nayeon’s belting, signifying the dramatic and drawn-out conclusion of this partnership.
THE GOOD
Going back to that point about the first post-chorus as a whole; songs that have the production continue unchanged into the post-chorus/2nd verse are very hit or miss for me — see TWICE's Don't Call Me Again for an overbearing example. The post-chorus going into the bridge contrasts Dahyun’s light tone nicely with the hard-hitting production, continuing the energy until it slowly fades into silence at the end of the bridge.
Back to the song as a whole, as much as TWICE has been experimenting with their sound for the past 4 years now, I’m happy they’re still finding new ways to explore what they’re capable of. And for that alone, even though I’m not a big fan of songs like these where they rely on sounding “big”, Dahyun’s lyricism and the thrill I receive every time I indulge myself in this song elevates it to an 8/10. Keep on breaking hearts, Dubu.
INVINCIBLE
SUPERHEROES
Press play to reminisce, pull up lyrics to cry.
This song is so beautiful. I’m totally not writing this song review, crying on the bus reminiscing about my childhood, while just having turned 21. I don’t know if these are happy or sad tears but this song is so beautiful either way.
Warm synths, muted piano, a gentle high hat, the younger members starting off the song — this has to be up there for one of the softest TWICE songs ever. And as it should, it’s one of the TWICEiest songs ever. And then Nayeon comes in:
The chords start swelling, the high hat keeps pace, and the harmonies pour in.
Jihyo takes up the second half of the chorus as it drops, trading the strings for an almost R&B synth production — if choir R&B takes off, this song started it. The song relishes in this cacophony of warm sounds until returning to its sparse and peaceful verses.
This time, the hints of piano are louder, little twinkling synths begin to shimmer, the drum buildup comes and Jeongyeon drives the song straight into the chorus. No time for the strings to build like in Nayeon’s — this song loves its chorus so much.
And I'll just take this time to appreciate the amount and range of Jeongyeon vocals in this album. Her voice is so textured, stable, and projected — but also more tender and soft compared to the more pronounced tones of Nayeon and Jihyo.
The bridge comes in, repeating the phrase:
Giving the song time to rest, before building back up to the last chorus — this time led by Jihyo, completing the 3MIX trifecta. And interestingly enough, Chaeyoung follows up in the second half of the chorus, rather than another member of the vocal line. She really did pop off in this album.
As the last chorus begins to close, the percussion at its strongest, the harmonies on blast, the background vocals cranked up to their Sunday best, is the song going to end? Of course not! This is an album full of banger endings as if the songs don’t want to end, and When We Were Kids being the album closer very much indulges in that feeling.
After a brief refrain, accented by Nayeon’s high note with a touch of vibrato, the song almost dives back into a fourth chorus. Nayeon and Jeongyeon harmonize — a rare and heavenly moment. And the song repeats the bridge, reiterating that they want to meet their younger selves, this time with the lush chorus production before closing with silence, a few piano notes, and Tzuyu singing the last line of the song:
Reflection, acceptance, hope. What a song.
THE GOOD
I wrote the first part of this review in November 2022. Then university, life, and other things got in the way of my headspace for me to feel confident about wrapping all of this up. In a way, I felt like I just didn’t want this review to end because of the joy that writing gives me — I didn’t want the happiness to end. And then it hit me, after watching a YouTuber rank animated movies and them placing Spirited Away at the top and explaining 'why' reminded me of just how important growing up is, and by extension this song.
This theme is important for both the rookie TWICE members in 2015 and the teenagers who would follow their journey and grow up with them, facing life’s obstacles along the way. Hardships that used to only involve family, crushes, and social media, evolve into work, commitments and all the struggles that adult life brings. Being a kid and enjoying the simple things in life is one of the most sought-after moments we want to relive because we took growing up for granted. The only thing we can do now is look back on ourselves with fondness and rose-tinted lenses.
TWICE’s original meaning was to resonate with people through their senses and their hearts. That was during their debut, and I think it still holds up today. In my opinion, touching people through their emotions is what TWICE does best and makes them one of K-pop’s all-time greats. It was never about having the best numbers — it was about being the best idols. And to think that this journey of maturation and growth would occur from 2015 all the way to this song, being a fitting nod to TWICE’s 7th anniversary, I don’t think anyone at the company nor the group would ever imagine that they would get this far. It’s these nine women or none — 9/10.
This song honestly deserves a 10/10 with how much I noticed other people reminiscing their childhoods after I heard this song, it is such a widely-relatable message, but I am determined to limit myself to one 10/10 song per album and if I were to pick between TTT and WWWK, I'd give it to the one's that's more repeatable — Talk that Talk just has this electric energy about it.
I love this album. It got me through some important parts of my life, both good and bad, and it's just a wonderful listen throughout. Reliving this album again before finally completing the review has been an exciting journey. Brave hit me harder this time, after being overshadowed by the other gems of this album, and WWWK finally got me to tear up and not just be emotionally satisfied.
I feel like there's something for everyone on this album. From the exhilarating thrills of TTT to the anthemic euphoria of QoH, the clubbing dichotomy of Trouble and Brave to the blissful glee of Basics, and the sweet reminiscence of WWWK to the thundering anger that is Gone. Like Eyes wide open, I liken Between 1&2 to a pop music taste platter — there's such an eclectic mix of pop music in this album that there's bound to be a song that someone will love, like, and dislike.
Is this album perfect? I don't think so, but it's close — it was certainly my 2022 AOTY. Was this review biased? Absolutely. I've been a fan since 2019 and with the themes in this album, I also feel like it was biased towards me as a ONCE. And how would I rank the album in TWICE's catalogue? It's honestly at the top, at least with EPs — I also felt that way towards Feel Special but then this album was birthed so I'm excited for TWICE's future.
Ready To Be was also a stunning album and Eyes wide open frankly also deserved the spotlight that Formula of Love received so I might hit those next but no promises; this album took long enough to bake.
As for the performances, I've only seen Twitter clips (no fancams to not spoil myself) and I am SO EXCITED to finally see them in July. QoH was as glorious as expected, Brave was a delightful surprise, and WWWK, while not being the concert closer everyone expected it to be, paired up nicely with Crazy Stupid Love. And of course the bombastic addition of the dance break to TTT. But, this is not a concert review, and here is where this album review ends.
Feel free to comment with any thoughts regarding the album, other TWICE albums, and any suggestions for my writing in general. Congrats again on making it this far!
God, I love this album.
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Intro
To preface the review, I just need to say that this is going to be a very long read. Going through it myself for the fun of it takes around 30 minutes — it's almost 7k words, including lyrical references. So for the best experience, listen to the album beforehand to understand what the hell I was thinking when I wrote this, play the album while reading, and set a good amount of time aside.And yes, this is 9 months late 😭 I'm not sorry — when I find an album review online it's always around a paragraph per song or even shorter. It makes sense from a journalistic perspective, but I want to do this album justice, hence taking 7 months to write out all my thoughts.
This shit is comprehensive and definitely overanalyzed, especially in Talk that Talk and Trouble. Each song review will compose of my commentary, noting the details I noticed through months of listening, then a conclusion. Also, mild swearing warning, I like implementing a touch of "French" when I'm very emotional about something. Anyway, onto the review!
Between 1&2 💞
Album Review
TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT
TELL ME WHAT YOU NEED
Talk that Talk 🎙
Producers by collapsedone and MRCH
One of the most perfect TWICE songs.
I think this is one of TWICE’s best-sounding title tracks. Warm modulated synths, a thrumming bass line, distant bells, shimmering synths — the purpose of this song is to be fun and my god is it excellent at it, like, Sana and Chaeyoung are saying knock-knock-knock and beep-beep-beep as if they’re some kind of car. So much fun.
Further along in the verse, Dahyun’s voice sounds so full and smooth with that layered harmony. Tzuyu coming with the Yes or Yes, Push & Pull, and 1 to 10 references — these are 5 years of song references. And Jeongyeon closes the pre-chorus accompanied by a rising synth to drop into chorus one. Jeongyeon slays pre-choruses.
The drums accelerate, the synths start blasting, and Jihyo opens to that party of a chorus with her godly vocals,
Tell me what you want
Tell me what you need
A to Z da malhaebwa
But shijageun ireoke have
Talk that Talk ttak han madi
Talk that Talk L-O-V-E
deullyeojweo ooh
Now now now now now yeah~
During Sana's Talk that Talk~ lines there’s this gentle ascending synth bell that rings with the descending melody and it sounds absolutely gorgeous. And the choreography during that part of the chorus is so so so so fun: the talking hands bit, spelling L-O-V-E, concluding with the deullyeojweo ooh! Oh my Jihyo the deullyeojweo ooh…
Have I mentioned this song is fun?
Speeding through verse 2; Chaeyoung’s part with the cat ears popping in the music video is adorable; Momo her stretching her arms out looks so damn cool; and Dahyun with her replay part sounds so lovely — although I think it sonically sounds a touch random, it makes sense thematically.
And now for this pre-chorus. Mina and Jihyo leading into it sound great BUT JEONGYEON… Now, she is my ult bias, and this pre-chorus sounds almost identical to the first one, but the way she holds that final note, inflecting and holding that now~ for one more beat before the chorus drops sounds so perfect — the song teeters on a cliff edge. Jeongyeon slays pre-choruses.
Dropping into the second chorus and man the way Nayeon delivers it just hits different. She has this indescribable “pop” voice (I promise this wasn't on purpose) that shouts out loud that this is THE chorus. This is especially apparent in how both lead their choruses where Jihyo starts at 120% power while Nayeon waits until [Tell me] WHAT YOU WANT to full-send it. The production also helps with this effect, cutting out during what you to emphasize Nayeon's voice before crashing back down, double the pause at Jihyo's intro.
Another deullyeojweo ooh! Nayeon travels to Narnia, and Mina the engineer strikes again in this heavenly, underwater-esque bridge,
The simple words “I love you”
That’s all I wanna hear
Without hesitation, I’ll go up to you
I’ll make it simple
And just tell you I love you
The word “love” is said for the first time in the song. There’s a funky keyboard instrument behind Chaeyoung’s part. Jihyo, Chaeyoung, and Nayeon take the initiative in their lyrics, professing their love before closing the bridge.
And now for the pièce-de-résistance: this final double chorus is exceptional — 40 seconds of crack-laced euphoria; Jihyo switches up the chorus and the choreo, Dahyun chimes in with her fluttery Talk that Talk, Momo comes out of nowhere with oh yeah it sounds so good! — you’re damn right it does, and this is where the song SOARS.
han beon deo~ haejweo
geurae banggeum geu mal~
Nayeon outright shouts Tell me what you need and then Jeongyeon sings the above lines in such an ethereal, warm way where the first line ascends while the second descends, causing a lull in the song before the finale with Tzuyu and Nayeon, finishing off the song with the final deullyeojweo ooh!
What a party. What a song.
THE GOOD
- The synths of all time
- The chimes during Talk-that-talk~
- Jeongyeon’s pre-chorus going into Nayeon’s chorus
- Rich harmonies and fun ad-libs
- The entirety of that magical final chorus and outro
- The opening hook (Tell me what you want) and accompanying choreography could be “catchier”
- Singing (and dancing) my heart out when this song played at a K-pop club
Lyrics and theme-wise, if this were to have been TWICE’s last comeback, they’ve once again built upon the theme they've been doing since debut: a Bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story.
This song’s chorus is honest yet simple; it asks the listener, in this case, the other half of the relationship, to be more upfront and open with their love (never be scared of love), that before the relationship can continue and flourish, there has to be a foundation and commitment of love between each other.
TWICE debuted with a song about making your crush go ooh ahh. Years later, they started pondering What is Love? and imagining their crush responding with Yes when asking them out — and now concluding with the phrase Talk that Talk, [Talk that] L-O-V-E, being upfront with the relationship, wishing their partner to also be happy, to commit to them, to feel the love that they want to impart on them. From gawking like ooh-ahh to talking out your shared love like adults — to having a true relationship between (one and) two.
And can I just say before finishing off Talk that Talk's review that this is such a fun and repeatable song with many little intricacies hidden in the nonet’s vocals and the song's production. This is the third draft I’m writing about Talk that Talk and its original word count pretty much quadrupled.
Harkening back to TWICE’s roots by combining mature thinking with youthful character, an incredible ending to look forward to, and just simply being a club-banger that’s easy to listen to, TTT is an easy 10/10.
WATCH ME GO WATCH ME GO
RULE THE WORLD
Queen of Hearts 👑
Produced by LDN Noise
If there was one B-side to promote in a live clip, this was a solid choice.
Helmed by LDN Noise going headlong into the Western boy-group rock-band aesthetic, Queen of Hearts is a boom-boom-clap song through and through. The drums are very prominent throughout the song, only giving room to riffs of electric guitar in the chorus to drive and continue the momentum of the music.
And speaking of the chorus, vocal line each got a chorus to flex and they did not fuck around,
You ain’t ready for it
Watch me go~ watch me go~
Rule the world
Know you never doubted baby
I’mma go run the whole universe~
Cymbals crashing, drums booming, and 3MIX belting all just so sound so good.
Baby I was born to rule~~
Yeah I’m the Queen, I’m the Queen
And it’s all because of you~~
That I’m the Queen of Hearts
These long, held-out notes performed by Jihyo and Nayeon are simply exquisite. Along with the shredding guitar, the drum set coming in full, and the interludes by Dahyun, Momo, and Chaeyoung, this is the part of the song that always, always, gives me goosebumps — it sounds so visceral, so energetic, so fun, so triumphant. Boom-boom-clap songs can be hit or miss with people, but there's no denying the payoff from the first part of the chorus to the second part is worth the wait.
The theme of the song so far has been kind of spread around the song. The chorus alludes to it with the line And it’s all because of you. But Mina shows more sides of it in the second verse, especially with the phrase,
And now that I’m surrounded by all my girls
We be shining bright like diamonds and pearls
It sounds really lovely — in a very cheesy and affectionate kind of way, as it rightfully should — the song is about the girls and their fans. But the bridge is where the song indeed shows its colours
Screaming out my name
See it in the stage lights
Feel so lucky just to have ya
Cause I know deep down I was meant for something bigger! Greater!
I know you’re seeing what I see
Yeah I’ll be everything you need
I know I’m gonna walk the walk
And talk the talk to be~ [the Queen of Hearts]
This is a song CONCEIVED TO BE PERFORMED FOR THE FANS. It’s meant to be loud. It’s meant to be unapologetic. It’s meant to be sappy. And it’s all the more wonderful for it.
This is the TWICEiest shit ever.
Like Talk that Talk, Queen of Hearts also has a killer closer. The production already started to grow from the bridge, but now the guitarist finally went Super Saiyan and instead of supporting the drums, they both take the centre stage in tandem.
Then finally, the closing moments of the song even manage to squeeze in some more sappiness.
So thank you for the memories
You’re all the ones who made me~
So thank you for the memories
That I’m the Queen of Hearts
I still can’t believe that this banger is a FAN SONG out of all things. Truly, the TWICEiest shit ever.
THE GOOD
- Adorable fucking lyrics
- Unrelenting, roaring chorus
- English and vocal flex
- Intoxicating guitar riffs
- Chaeyoung rapping in English in their Korean songs somehow slaps harder than her English rapping in their English songs, nonetheless, in QoH, it fits with the sound of the song
- Walking home from a K-pop festival with this song playing, felt like a Queen of Hearts
I love these types of rock songs with how grunge and head-bang-able they are, there is just a certain nostalgic and cheesy quality to them that feels so cozy. I don’t love putting them on repeat, because in this case, I do believe there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. Perhaps more shredding, maybe a guitar solo to rock out to, or an accompaniment(!) of ad-libs from 3MIX to support Jihyo’s final chorus? A ONCE can dream of a truly bombastic rock song from TWICE. But then again that distracts from the core of what this song is: a fan song disguised as a rock song.
Queen of Hearts has so much sweetness in its lyrics and message that it's overflowing. The drums, guitar, and vocals can be as loud and intricate as they can, but the theme of this song is what makes it special from TWICE’s other rock songs — it’s a 9/10 for me.
I WANNA WANNA WANNA
TAKE YOU TO THE BASICS
Basics 🌈
Lyrics by Chaeyoung
Quite possibly the jammiest (pun intended) song of the album.
A song written by the Strawberry Princess herself — an event similar in frequency to other artists' releases with her last song being 2020’s silky Handle It — Basics first starts with an understated and dreamy delivery. After the first stanza, however, a bouncy Miami bass line emerges, revealing the true nature of the song: this is a classic summer bop! Especially in the first rap,
dareun aedeulgwaneun dalla
Ain’t beggin’ for love
nappeun geon anijana ige naraseo
eodiro twilji molla
Like rainbow bubble gum
geureoni nal kkwak butjabadweo
Syllables are pronounced in a relaxed nature, bars often starting with an "ah" sound, flirty lines in English — this rap features a production full of pop with R&B flourishes and, in my opinion, this is Chaeyoung’s bag. Also, the line rainbow bubblegum is so adorable and so Chaeyoung.
I wanna wanna wanna take it to the Basics
da weonhae weonhae weonhae? seodureuji ma Baby
ppeonhae ppeonhae malhae mweohae da al tende
Ah yeah ah yeah ah yeah ah yeah
That chorus is pure pop with a Miami bass backing; you better be bopping your head to the melody, if not booty poppin' to the bassline. Chaeyoung loves rhyming in the first half of the chorus to enhance its catchiness and it's damn incredible: wanna, weonhae, and ppeonhae all create these imperfect rhymes that continue momentum without feeling repetitive.
After the very Boy With Luv-sounding ah yeah ah yeah, ah yeah ah yeah comes an 8-bar split half and half between Chaeyoung and Momo. Coming from the chorus, the production completely cuts out for the first 2 bars. This adds tension; the song yearns to have that bass beat thumping again and all we have in the audio space in those 2 bars is Chaeyoung spittin' and she delivered.
taneun deut tteugeoun samak wie
yeppeuge pieonan jangmi gata
joshimseure naege dagaol ttae
nado moreuge jjilleobeoril tende
Translating to:
Above the hot, burning desert
It’s like a rose that bloomed beautifully
When you come to me slowly
I will prick you unconsciously
The rap feels slick, effortless, and confident. Her diction remains sharp when enunciating each syllable but she doesn’t let the flow of her rap waver or build as her 4 bars go by, it’s just smooth consistency throughout. Even the lyrics possess an aura of laid-back collectedness that is just so her. The things Chaeyoung can do when given her pen.
THE GOOD
- That sweet summer vibe of a chorus
- The spaceship post-chorus is killer
- Chaeyoung devoured this song
- Sure-footed, confident lyrics
- Perhaps an alteration of that ah yeah ah yeah line
- The way Jihyo did her pre-chorus line is good, but Mina’s is great
- After donating my hair, walking down the rainbow-coloured areas of downtown Toronto with this song playing was very… fitting
This song is summer bliss distilled into 2:56. It’s dreamy, the raps are satisfying, and the ending is charming. I will say that although the second half of the song adds the stunning spaceship post-choruses and a floaty bridge with an incredible drumbeat drop into the final chorus, the raps of the song make it feel a bit front-loaded. And in an album stacked with awesome finishers, it feels more apparent.
With that said, it’s an 8/10 bop for me. This song is so easy to put on and it feels exactly what Chaeyoung would make if given the reins to produce a pop song all on her own. The lyrics are nonchalant but full of conviction, the wordplay is intricate, and the production playful but not too bombastic — it's just a nice vibe. Songs like Basics are the standard for good, simple, repeatable pop music and I’m happy that Chaeyoung got to test her pen in this genre.
BABY WE’RE IN
TROUBLE TROUBLE
Trouble 💃
Lyrics, vocal direction, and background vocals by JihyoProduced by Jihyo and earattack
One of the most enjoyable songs I’ve heard in a while.
There is an underlying tension within the first 4 bars of the song, Jihyo and Nayeon confidently open it to a nondescript array of synths and then the stanza ends, Momo announces Let’s go, the beat drops and it hits you: this is a club song.
Dahyun's relaxed delivery contrasting with Jeongyeon's staccato flow, the wobbly synth beat mixed with a sprinkle of house piano, Sana dramatically slowing down the song only for Tzuyu to build it back up until the chorus drops,
- Nayeon opens it using a breathy tone, with vocal chops serving as harmonies
- The blooming of the house piano takes centre stage and the song ascends into euphoria
- A random drum roll capped off by a cymbal crash
- Jeongyeon’s growling pronunciation of the word Trouble
- Chaeyoung slyly admitting I like this Trouble
- The entirety of Tzuyu’s tro~oh~oh~ouble yeah~
- Sana using her deep voice for the na~na~na~na
- Jihyo leading the vocals during the synchronized T W I C E chant
This chorus is perfect. Toronto’s residential market needs this song injected into its veins because god damn this song has SO much house in it. And then, ANOTHER KILLING PART: this rap fucking slaps.
gamchweo bwatja geugeon Fake
ppajin hamjeongeun Sweet cake
During the first 2 bars, Chaeyoung is keeping it calm because that trip of a chorus just ended and the song needs a breather, but I don't think anyone expected her to SNAP this hard afterwards:
You cannot resist this
Cannot miss this, such a bliss
Ima put it down down
Oh yeah, better kiss kiss
Below is the structure of her this portion of the rap, I’m not that well versed in this technical aspect of music theory but I digress, this is all in the span of around 5 seconds where it’s:
Triplet-triplet
Quadruplet-triplet
Quadruplet-doublet
Doublet-quadruplet
Now, 25/5 = 5 syllables per second isn’t groundbreaking, but goddamn it these 2 bars sound so nice — if there is one part in this album that I always repeat, it’s this. The addition of that first quadruplet for cannot miss this in the midst of the triplets sticks out and accelerates the flow of the rap while the following doublets and quadruplets destabilize and slow the rap down as the verse closes. And can I just point out:
THE MAIN VOCALIST WROTE, DIRECTED, AND COMPOSED THIS SONG ‼
Chaeyoung of course delivered the fuck out of her verse but THIS is what you get when you have a member not only write the words they’re saying but also the melody and flow with which they sing it, when that member knows the others so well that when they write a song they know how to make the group exceed. This is what you get when the artists you stan love doing artist shit.
And. AND. That's not all — with how much I mentioned I love a good outro to close a song, this outro slaps as well:
Woo wee woo wee woo
I like this Trouble be-be
Woo wee woo wee woo
I like this Trouble bay-be
Woo wee woo wee woo
I like this Trouble bay-beh
Woo wee woo wee woo
I like this Trou-ble
Like, come on, Nayeon’s imitating a police siren for crying out loud. And this is all after her ad-libs in the final post-chorus; after the pianist going full tilt and playing that piano as if it was their last chance to ever play; after that final T W I C E chant by all the members come these blissful 20 seconds at the very end. What a song.
THE GOOD
- The theme of relishing in an uncontrolled love
- Sana and Mina’s melody in the pre-chorus
- Whole neighbourhoods full of house
- You cannot resist this, cannot miss this, such a bliss
- Wees and woos
- Mina’s line of falling down, falling down, falling down low in verse 2 feels a bit too abrupt of a change
- While writing Trouble's review I had this song on repeat for my whole subway commute and I must've been so distracting, just head-bopping and being so invested in my enjoyment
Need I say more, easy 9/10. The only reason I place Talk that Talk above Trouble is because of what that song represents but besides that, this is one of the best “international” sounds they’ve put out. Actually, I haven’t listened to Eyes wide open in a while but this song is up there with one of the most sonically pleasing pieces of work they’ve done.
Clubbing TWICE has always been a thing since TT was birthed in 2016, and has been a staple of their discography since 2019’s Fancy You and Feel Special mini albums, but Trouble unapologetically dives into and fits the house genre so well you’d think that this is TWICE’s bread and butter sound.
Trouble is Jihyo’s magnum opus. What a song.
BRAVE BRAVE BRAVE
FOR YOU
Brave 💖
Produced by Slow Rabbit
I first thought this was just a good song, then I read the lyrics.
Gentle guitar plucks, shimmering synths, a distant keyboard in the right ear, in the left a glockenspiel, the melodic oohs from the members — this song is PRETTY.
The night that was unusually dark
Above this terrifying world, felt so lonely
The world has grown in the time of wandering
So hard to breathe
Mina and Chaeyoung open the song with how they feel lonely, that it's hard to breathe and now suddenly the song feels bittersweet — I was not expecting the song to become this emotional. Brave describes a situation where the singer is in a darker place in life and it isn't until another person gives them hope by calling them Brave that they find the drive to keep going.
Once the chorus hits, the melodies pick up, more guitars get added — there’s even an electric guitar hidden in the mix somewhere, and the song drops the emotional front to reveal a mid-tempo pop song to dance to while crying in the club. The song as a whole still carries this melancholy feeling, but now with the added support of the chorus, acting as a light amongst the gloom.
Continuing on in the second verse there's this gorgeous, well-placed break in the song that just lets it settle after that chorus. Only a seasoned producer would risk this much empty space in a song and Slow Rabbit went to fill those shoes.
Back to the chorus, I'll take this moment to once again commend Slow Rabbit with the mixing of the song, because 4MIX undoubtedly sounds good in the chorus, and the interludes from Dahyun, Chaeyoung, and Mina also sound really good, but the clear highlight of the choruses are these lines:
Oh na na na neon nal naige hae
On and on and on
Brave Brave Brave for ya
Oh na na na neon nal sum shwige hae
On and on and on oh trust me babe
Momo, Sana, and Tzuyu form this beautiful, surprisingly catchy, second half of the chorus accompanied by a guitar drop. It should not turn out this well with how conflicting the "na"s are with the guitar melody but it creates this gentle bopping ebb and flow that feels so lush and mellow.
Diving into the bridge reveals that the listener of the song is revealed not only capable of supporting the singer through direct words but also through their thoughts and dreams. As can be discerned, this can be a song interpreted to be about ONCEs, about how they push TWICE to be their best selves despite the breathless hardships they face. It's a very sweet and touching song.
THE GOOD
- Special lyrics
- Pleasant sound to vibe out to
- That gentle break after the first chorus
- 3MIX poppin' off at the end
- Just very pretty vocals throughout
- Potentially hard to comprehend without translating the Korean lyrics
- Form of Therapy’s life motto revolves around the word “brave” — I don’t know where I got that from, but I remembered it right before watching his album reaction (yes, this is very random)
I’m actually spoiled with the TWICE members’ easy-to-understand songwriting that when a song like this pops up where it's not written by a member and the thematic bits are mostly in Korean, I tend to put it aside in favour of the other songs on the album. And, especially for a song focusing on a theme like this where the English phrases don’t do the Korean lyrics enough justice, it does place a bit of a barrier on the listening experience, dropping it down to a 7/10 from an 8/10.
With that anecdote out of the way, this song is just such a vibe, man. I know that sounds super hippy to say but Brave is so mellow and smooth that I can’t help but sway a little when that chorus hits. And then I remember what the lyrics say and I tear up a bit on the inside. This song is so pure, raw, and full of heart — we need more songs like these where they just reminisce about life while putting up an upbeat front. Don't mind me just crying while dancing the night away.
With that said, this isn't the first time this theme has been sung by TWICE either, they've long trodden this path of supportive, confiding, up-lifting songs with Young & Wild, Rainbow, Queen, Go Hard, Depend on You, even this album's Queen of Hearts, and, of course, Feel Special. Brave just adds another on top of an already stacked lineup, unique with its mellow somberness.
Also now feels like a good time to get into my rating system:
- 7/10s are songs are ones that are simply good throughout or great songs with apparent flaws
- 8/10s are great songs with distinct killing parts
- 9/10s are borderline perfect songs where I sometimes can't comprehend how great they are
- And 10/10s are the best of an artist's discography, songs that encapsulate their ethos perfectly or expand upon them in a meaningful way
I SEE THE LIES
ON THE TIP OF YOUR TONGUE
Gone 💨
Lyrics by Dahyun
Who the fuck pissed off Dubu this time??
It’s getting quite rare to see TWICE pull off brand new sounds because, with now 190 original songs under their belt as of this review, they’ve done so many genres and sub-genres varying from hyper pop, to bossa nova, to whatever 2020’s Go Hard is. So it’s surprising to see they’ve still got tricks up their sleeves and Gone is one of them.
The song starts with strings swinging back and forth and vocal chops dancing from ear to ear, teasing what’s yet to come. Jihyo enters the song with a whisper and the song sets its pace. A stagnant drum pad moves the song along and typical song progression would have Mina continue the build, but — it doesn’t. The song simmers, adding a hint of high hat to the pot. And then Sana and Tzuyu come on and surely the buildup must boil over right?
Silence, until…
I see the LIES on the top of your tongue
The strings emerge again on full blast, the simmer rolls to a boil, and the anger of the song is revealed,
All the fate I had towards you
Fades like a fog, Gone, Gone
Your flipping mind of doing this and that
I’m tired of it, it’s meaningless
In the beginning, it was hard to believe
With that, hatred increases
The singer is so scorned and burned from this relationship that they reminisce about all the effort they’ve put in since the beginning, but their “partner” is so unconcerned that they’ve just about had enough of the relationship altogether.
This has been Dahyun’s thing since 2020’s Bring It Back, 2021’s Cruel, 2022’s That’s all I’m saying, and even 2023's Don't Blame It On Me — emotionally charged breakup songs that make you feel as if she’s survived through a dozen bad relationships. Dispatch, do try to do your job better.
Another highlight of the song is the post-chorus going into the bridge. This segment reiterates the structure from the first post-chorus — a barrage of drums supported by the rhythmic strumming of a bass guitar along with a consistent synth filling out the soundscape. But this time, it’s Dahyun and Chaeyoung on the rap:
I can’t stand it anymore
My patience, invisible
I can’t find it, it’s all Gone
Even if I try to turn back, it’s too late
There’s no use anymore
It has left, it’s long Gone
You, with flipping mind, you are out
I know that you know what I’m talking about
Nothing you could say that could turn this around
I’m Gone
Building upon the disrespected theme of the song, Dahyun notes that she’s finally had enough with Chaeyoung adding that there’s no point salvaging what love was once there. Momo and Dahyun round it off by telling the listener that there’s no point trying to reason with them or playing naive, they fucked up and there’s no coming back.
Can I just say, it's a bit of a shame that Chaeyoung’s rapping popped off in this album while Dahyun only has this one verse that she shares with Chaeyoung, but it just sounds so good how Dahyun eases in after the chorus with her light rapping tone transitioning into her singing. She even holds the Gone in a little crescendo for some added pizzazz.
And, there’s no way I’m not going to talk about Momo’s vocals in this bridge. Damned if she only got 1 line to use it in, her lower register is incredible. She sounds so smooth singing in this tone. All of TWICE do in particular and there is nary a weak vocal performance in this album.
To close the song off, a wash of synths gets to have their shine in the spotlight, showered with Nayeon’s belting, signifying the dramatic and drawn-out conclusion of this partnership.
THE GOOD
- They’ve still got their surprises
- Thundering chorus
- 2nd rap and bridge combo
- A bitter, crumbling relationship theme
- I’m not a huge fan of the mixing during the first post-chorus, where Momo's vocals were fighting with the production, which is disappointing because Momo is capable of an insane flow
- The post-chorus in general, specifically the first one, can be a bit tiring on repeat listens
- Actually, I think this song sounds like a mix between GOT7's Not By The Moon, BLACKPINK’s Love To Hate Me, and Dahyun’s Bring It Back. I don’t know where I got this thought came from, but it stuck
Going back to that point about the first post-chorus as a whole; songs that have the production continue unchanged into the post-chorus/2nd verse are very hit or miss for me — see TWICE's Don't Call Me Again for an overbearing example. The post-chorus going into the bridge contrasts Dahyun’s light tone nicely with the hard-hitting production, continuing the energy until it slowly fades into silence at the end of the bridge.
Back to the song as a whole, as much as TWICE has been experimenting with their sound for the past 4 years now, I’m happy they’re still finding new ways to explore what they’re capable of. And for that alone, even though I’m not a big fan of songs like these where they rely on sounding “big”, Dahyun’s lyricism and the thrill I receive every time I indulge myself in this song elevates it to an 8/10. Keep on breaking hearts, Dubu.
INVINCIBLE
SUPERHEROES
When We Were Kids 🧸
Lyrics by Dahyun
Press play to reminisce, pull up lyrics to cry.
This song is so beautiful. I’m totally not writing this song review, crying on the bus reminiscing about my childhood, while just having turned 21. I don’t know if these are happy or sad tears but this song is so beautiful either way.
Warm synths, muted piano, a gentle high hat, the younger members starting off the song — this has to be up there for one of the softest TWICE songs ever. And as it should, it’s one of the TWICEiest songs ever. And then Nayeon comes in:
Invincible superheroes, we wanted to be adults
To the higher, clearer world
The chords start swelling, the high hat keeps pace, and the harmonies pour in.
Remember When We Were Kids
When We Were Kids, we didn’t know
If we could go back
I will love it even more
Remember When We Were Kids
Jihyo takes up the second half of the chorus as it drops, trading the strings for an almost R&B synth production — if choir R&B takes off, this song started it. The song relishes in this cacophony of warm sounds until returning to its sparse and peaceful verses.
This time, the hints of piano are louder, little twinkling synths begin to shimmer, the drum buildup comes and Jeongyeon drives the song straight into the chorus. No time for the strings to build like in Nayeon’s — this song loves its chorus so much.
And I'll just take this time to appreciate the amount and range of Jeongyeon vocals in this album. Her voice is so textured, stable, and projected — but also more tender and soft compared to the more pronounced tones of Nayeon and Jihyo.
The bridge comes in, repeating the phrase:
I wish that I could meet
Could meet the younger me
Giving the song time to rest, before building back up to the last chorus — this time led by Jihyo, completing the 3MIX trifecta. And interestingly enough, Chaeyoung follows up in the second half of the chorus, rather than another member of the vocal line. She really did pop off in this album.
As the last chorus begins to close, the percussion at its strongest, the harmonies on blast, the background vocals cranked up to their Sunday best, is the song going to end? Of course not! This is an album full of banger endings as if the songs don’t want to end, and When We Were Kids being the album closer very much indulges in that feeling.
After a brief refrain, accented by Nayeon’s high note with a touch of vibrato, the song almost dives back into a fourth chorus. Nayeon and Jeongyeon harmonize — a rare and heavenly moment. And the song repeats the bridge, reiterating that they want to meet their younger selves, this time with the lush chorus production before closing with silence, a few piano notes, and Tzuyu singing the last line of the song:
Oh, we were kids
Reflection, acceptance, hope. What a song.
THE GOOD
- Heavenly vocals throughout
- Relatable, heartfelt lyrics
- Euphoric chorus
- Great closer to the album
- Refrain after the last chorus, Back When We Were Kids, could’ve been executed better
- For an album titled Between 1&2, I don’t think anything hits harder than finishing the song reviews, with this song in particular, during your 21st birthday
I wrote the first part of this review in November 2022. Then university, life, and other things got in the way of my headspace for me to feel confident about wrapping all of this up. In a way, I felt like I just didn’t want this review to end because of the joy that writing gives me — I didn’t want the happiness to end. And then it hit me, after watching a YouTuber rank animated movies and them placing Spirited Away at the top and explaining 'why' reminded me of just how important growing up is, and by extension this song.
This theme is important for both the rookie TWICE members in 2015 and the teenagers who would follow their journey and grow up with them, facing life’s obstacles along the way. Hardships that used to only involve family, crushes, and social media, evolve into work, commitments and all the struggles that adult life brings. Being a kid and enjoying the simple things in life is one of the most sought-after moments we want to relive because we took growing up for granted. The only thing we can do now is look back on ourselves with fondness and rose-tinted lenses.
TWICE’s original meaning was to resonate with people through their senses and their hearts. That was during their debut, and I think it still holds up today. In my opinion, touching people through their emotions is what TWICE does best and makes them one of K-pop’s all-time greats. It was never about having the best numbers — it was about being the best idols. And to think that this journey of maturation and growth would occur from 2015 all the way to this song, being a fitting nod to TWICE’s 7th anniversary, I don’t think anyone at the company nor the group would ever imagine that they would get this far. It’s these nine women or none — 9/10.
This song honestly deserves a 10/10 with how much I noticed other people reminiscing their childhoods after I heard this song, it is such a widely-relatable message, but I am determined to limit myself to one 10/10 song per album and if I were to pick between TTT and WWWK, I'd give it to the one's that's more repeatable — Talk that Talk just has this electric energy about it.
Epilogue
And finally here is the end. If you made it in one sitting then I commend you, because I could not write this mess in one sitting. As alluded to, I started writing this album review sometime in October, after a series of edits the first draft was finished in March, and now here's the final draft in June.I love this album. It got me through some important parts of my life, both good and bad, and it's just a wonderful listen throughout. Reliving this album again before finally completing the review has been an exciting journey. Brave hit me harder this time, after being overshadowed by the other gems of this album, and WWWK finally got me to tear up and not just be emotionally satisfied.
I feel like there's something for everyone on this album. From the exhilarating thrills of TTT to the anthemic euphoria of QoH, the clubbing dichotomy of Trouble and Brave to the blissful glee of Basics, and the sweet reminiscence of WWWK to the thundering anger that is Gone. Like Eyes wide open, I liken Between 1&2 to a pop music taste platter — there's such an eclectic mix of pop music in this album that there's bound to be a song that someone will love, like, and dislike.
Is this album perfect? I don't think so, but it's close — it was certainly my 2022 AOTY. Was this review biased? Absolutely. I've been a fan since 2019 and with the themes in this album, I also feel like it was biased towards me as a ONCE. And how would I rank the album in TWICE's catalogue? It's honestly at the top, at least with EPs — I also felt that way towards Feel Special but then this album was birthed so I'm excited for TWICE's future.
Ready To Be was also a stunning album and Eyes wide open frankly also deserved the spotlight that Formula of Love received so I might hit those next but no promises; this album took long enough to bake.
As for the performances, I've only seen Twitter clips (no fancams to not spoil myself) and I am SO EXCITED to finally see them in July. QoH was as glorious as expected, Brave was a delightful surprise, and WWWK, while not being the concert closer everyone expected it to be, paired up nicely with Crazy Stupid Love. And of course the bombastic addition of the dance break to TTT. But, this is not a concert review, and here is where this album review ends.
Feel free to comment with any thoughts regarding the album, other TWICE albums, and any suggestions for my writing in general. Congrats again on making it this far!
God, I love this album.
2023.06.05 04:29 Tangou-888 The Hoax Story of Remarkable Testimony of a Buddhist monk in Myanmar (Burma) (Part II)
 | Dear All NDE Fans, I was alerted and requested by someone in a responsible position to check for the authenticity of the story behind this posting. After speaking to and exchanging Emails with Myanmar (Burmese) monks as well as fellow Myanmar Buddhism experts in many countries, I am 100% confident that this NDE story is completely fictitious. The reasons are given below. submitted by Tangou-888 to TBSDaoismVajrayana [link] [comments] (1) All Burmese experts said they had never heard of the story about this Myanmar Buddhist monk before. (2) There is also no reports either in Burma or outside Burma of mass defection of Myanmar Buddhist Monks to join the Christian Church. (3) The monk in the story said he became a novice at the age of 18. It is rather unusual as most boys Burmese boys join the monastic life at younger age than 18. (4) At the age of 19, he became a monk. This is also unusual as the entry age for becoming a fully ordained monk is 20. (There is one exception when one considers the foetal life while in the mother's womb) (5) U Zadila, also known as 'Kyar Ni Kan Sayadaw' was described as probably the most famous Buddhist Teacher of the time. That is disputable. Venerable Kyar Ni Kan Sayadaw was indeed well known and very popular as public speaker and preacher. But he was not regarded as the most distinguished monk academically and intellectually. (6) The monk said 'Kyar Ni Kan Sayadaw' died in a car crash in 1983 . In fact Sayadaw died in Myanmar Era 1339 = about 1977. There was a 6 years discrepancy which is unacceptable as the monk said he studied under him. He should know the exact year when his teacher died. And that 1977 was also the year when he became a monk. This fact alone is enough to brand the story as a fake or invention. (7) He said he was given a new name of 'U Nata Pannita Ashinthuriya' when he entered the monastery. In Burma, the title 'shin' was used for the novice. 'U' was never used for a novice. (8) The monk's new name itself was unusual nor unheard of, according to the monks I consulted. (9) Doctors diagnosed Malaria and Yellow fever. Actually the Yellow Fever was not known to exist in Burma. (10) To recover completely after very severe malaria is most unusual especially after being discharged to die. (11) To regain Life after the body started to decay (decompose) is impossible according to conventional medical thinking. There are other discrepancies regarding his actual NDE. But there is no need to dig deeper. It is a complete FICTION. It is very regrettable that a Christian Church was reported to be involved in creating this dishonest practice. We expect 'James' to say something about our findings. He is the one who reported the story to the world media. After reading his various postings to this forum, I believe that he is either a priest or a serious Christian. We welcome his reply as well as the communication from the Church authorities who wrote the Introduction to this fictitious story and published in their regular bulletin. Best wishes to all, Melvin, [email protected]... ___________________________________________________ http://www.ccgm.org.au/Articles/ARTICLE-0102.htm Note: The old link was no longer there so try this link instead http://www.christianfaith.com/lookout/the-tale-of-the-resurrected-monk Resurrected Burmese Monk Story Revisited During the year 2000, numerous emails circulated on the Internet passing on the dramatic story: ‘BACK FROM THE DEAD The Remarkable Testimony of a Buddhist monk in Myanmar (Burma) who came back to life a changed man!’ With CCG Ministries’ involvement in Asia, including Myanmar, we were very interested in this story and its authenticity. It was brought to ‘life’ on the Internet through the promotion of a Christian missionary organization then called, Asian Minorities Outreach, later changing its name to: Asia Harvest, headquartered in Texas, USA, and operating from Thailand. Its Director, Paul Hatthaway, has written several books, including ‘The Heavenly Man’. For quite some time the ‘resurrected Buddhist monk’ story appeared on the front page of the organisation’s website. Then the actual story was removed from their website, but a remaining reference to it encouraged people to request a copy of the story by email. The following explanation for the change, was given by the group at the time: ‘A Quick Note: We have been asked by many people why this testimony is no longer available on our website. We were ordered to remove the story by the government of Singapore, who had apparently received complaints from Buddhists. As our website is housed in Singapore at the moment, we didn’t have much choice.’ AMO/Asia Harvest introduced the story with the following introduction: ‘The story that follows is simply a translation of a taped testimony from a man with a life-changing story. It is not an interview or a biography, but simply the words from the man himself. Different people react in different ways when they hear this story. Some are inspired, some skeptical, a few will mock and ridicule, while some others have even been filled with rage and anger, convinced these words are the ravings of a mad man or an elaborate deception. Some Christians have opposed the story simply because the radical and miraculous events described herein do not fit their feeble image of an Almighty God.’ We were concerned with the above wording and commented in our 2001 report that it was interesting to note the approach they took in the introduction. Anyone who questioned the story would immediately be labelled as a sceptic, a mocker or ridiculer, someone filled with rage and anger, or worse a Christian whose concept of God is feeble and who does not believe that an Almighty God can be radical and perform miracles. This could be seen by some as a form of bullying and intimidation to dismiss any form of thought and questioning of the story. It is not a healthy or biblical approach to dealing with questions about such a dramatic story, nor does it encourage people to use their minds. The resurrected monk’s story was quite a dramatic tale and it has impressed many people. It was even reported in the well-known Christian Singaporean magazine: IMPACT (June/July 2000, p.45). It continued to be circulated and passed on through emails for some time. But was it true? If it was, it SHOULD be circulated - whatever the consequences. But what if it was NOT true? Should it then continue to be circulated never-the-less? We believe not! It should be noted that there have been several versions of the story circulating. One version, which was circulating in March and April of 2000, began with an ‘Extract’: ‘Myanmar: Buddhist monk raised from the dead - 300 monks turn to Jesus. “In 1998, a Buddhist monk died. A few days later, his funeral was held, at which he was to be cremated. From the smell, it was obvious that his body had started to decompose - he was very clearly dead!” according to the report from missions agency Asian Minorities Outreach. “We have attempted to verify this report which reached us from a number of sources, and are now convinced that it is accurate,” they write. Hundreds of monks and relatives of the dead man attended the funeral. Just as the body was about to be burned, the dead monk suddenly sat up, shouting ‘It’s a lie! I saw our ancestors burning and being tortured in some sort of fire. I also saw Buddha and many other Buddhist holy men. They were all in a sea of fire!’ ‘We must listen to the Christians,’ he continued emphatically, ‘they’re the only ones who know the truth!’ The events shocked the whole region. Over 300 monks became Christians and started to study the Bible. The resurrected man continued to warn everyone to believe in Jesus, because he is the only true God. Tapes of the monk’s report were distributed throughout Myanmar. The Buddhist hierarchy and the government were soon alarmed, and they arrested the monk. He has not been seen since and it is feared that he was killed to keep him silent. It is now a serious crime to listen to the tapes, because the government wants to dampen the sensation.’ On Sunday 19th November 2000, CCG Ministries’ Director, Adrian van Leen, interviewed and spoke with a man who claimed to be the ‘resurrected’ Paul in a hotel function room in Yangon in the company of four Myanmar Christian leaders. That interview raised serious questions as to the authenticity of the story under consideration. Our detailed review of the interview with the man claiming to be Paul, the ‘resurrected’ monk, was published as a report, sent to Asia Harvest, and placed on our website. After emailing a copy of the report, we also sent a ‘hard’ copy of the TACL containing the printed article, to Asia Harvest. In the latter part of 2003 we received the following email from Asia Harvest: Greetings! I’m sure you will remember our communications a year or two back regarding the story of the Buddhist monk in Myanmar who came back to life. We were the ones who first had his testimony translated and published on our website. Then you travelled to Myanmar and met with a man regarding this story. Your graphic report of that interview, his seemingly unstable mind and completely inconsistent testimony left us with no option but to withdraw the story from our website and offer our deep apologies. The last thing we want to do is discredit the name of our Lord Jesus by publishing any story that is untrue. I wrote to you of our intentions and you accurately reported, [After Asia Harvest received a copy of this report they removed all references to the story from their website and stopped sending out email transcripts of the claimed resurrection account. They will be making some statement regarding their initial endorsement of the story. When this is available we will gladly append it to this report.] However, when we received your magazine article which carried a picture of the man you interviewed, we showed it to two Burmese pastors who met the original “Paul” in Myanmar and they immediately said this was the wrong man! Later a missionary who lives here in Thailand but who works in Myanmar also said the man you interviewed looks nothing like the monk, being much younger. More information since has revealed that there are actually three or four different people in Myanmar who claim they were monks who rose from the dead! Our contacts in Yangon (Rangoon) say that two of these are completely untrustworthy men, with little evidence of a genuine conversion to Christ. One of these is the young man you interviewed. No wonder his birth-date and other key facts were different from the testimony we published - it was not the same person! It almost seems that Satan sent along these counterfeits with false testimonies and a poor witness in order to discredit the original testimony. Can we absolutely guarantee the story we published is true - of course not. Only God and the person involved can know what happened in such a story. We stated this when we first released the transcript of his testimony. But as far as can be verified, we have yet to be convinced that this testimony is false. We have been told it now seems likely that the monk Paul was killed. He was in hiding for more than 12 months and has not been heard of since. Another ex-monk who lives in Shan State, who also converted to Christ through miraculous circumstances is also being hunted by the authorities in a bid to silence him. In the interests of fairness, would you be willing to publish our comments in this email with the story that is on your website? God bless you, Asia Harvest Unfortunately, this update from Asia Harvest still fails to answer many of the questions and issues CCG Ministries raised in our report initially. Our report had already acknowledged that there were several people in Myanmar (Burma) claiming to be the ‘resurrected’ monk: Further complications have arisen with this whole saga. According to the beliefs of some people in Myanmar (or some with friends and/or relatives in Myanmar), several different people supposedly, or apparently, are claiming to be the resurrected Buddhist monk - at least an older man and a not-so-balanced young man. Even if we completely remove the questionable ‘Paul’ interviewed by CCG Ministries’ Director and several Myanmar Pastors, we are still left with serious questions about the whole story anyway. These were made clear in our 2001 report and remain unanswered by the recent comments from Asia harvest. Apart from the contradictions made by [the suspect] Paul in front of witnesses, there are still serious questions about the content of his [the ‘original ‘Paul’] supposed visions or visit to hell and heaven, as well as questions about editorial comments made by Asian Minorities Outreach/Asia Harvest. AMO/Asia Harvest has made statements about Paul being radically transformed and having a 180-degree shift in his life, and him continuing to be a fearless witness for Christ, of him being persecuted, scorned by family, friends and colleagues, and facing death for his unwillingness to compromise. But some Myanmar Christian leaders have asked (as we do also) on what do they base this, apart from his say so [or the say-so of unnamed pastors whose comments seem in clear conflict with that of the majority of pastors – especially from known established churches and denominations]? What evidence do they have? Statements that [the ‘original’] Paul had been arrested and imprisoned - probably several times, not seen since, and that it was feared that he had been killed to keep him silent - are all highly emotive. While claims of imprisonment in such a situation are plausible and even probable, they remain unsubstantiated. AMO/Asia Harvest has stated that the story was first told them by several Burmese church leaders, and that since being initially told they ‘have attempted to verify this report which reached us from a number of sources, and are now convinced that it is accurate.’ IMPACT Magazine reported that a spokesman for AMO/Asia Harvest stated: ‘We believe it to be true as there are many witnesses to these events.’ CCG Ministries’ Director, Adrian van Leen, before, especially during, and after his visit to Myanmar in November 2000, [and subsequent visits in 2001 and 2002] has spoken to a number of [numerous] Myanmar Christian leaders - including a number who are involved in inter-church/inter-denominational work, as well as leaders of several denominations. He spoke with leaders from Yangon and across Myanmar who attended a conference in Bago, and also Christian leaders in Mandalay and a regional township. Many of these leaders from across varying denominations had contact with other Christian leaders across the country. No one was able to give ANY form of authentication to the story. A number of leaders, including those who had been in Christian leadership in Mandalay, knew of no evidence to confirm any part of the story. Some of the Myanmar Christian leaders would very much like to know who the ‘several Burmese church leaders’ are that AMO/Asia Harvest refers to as their sources for this story. In fact, it was pointed out very clearly that, had the story been true, especially had there been a number of Buddhist monks converted to Christianity - especially as many as 300 and very much so if there were as many as 7,000 - the news would have spread rapidly. While the government-controlled media might have tried to suppress such news - the Christians and churches (particularly in the Mandalay area) would not have been able - nor have wanted to - suppress such news. It would have spread rapidly and widely through the churches. The Buddhist community would also have spread the story - though for different reasons. The claim that ’there are many witnesses to these events’ is also disputed by Myanmar Christian leaders, who have stated that they had never met anyone who had been a direct primary witness - nor anyone who had personally met a direct witness to these events… The reality is that in Myanmar itself no one has been able to find any witnesses or any evidence whatever, to support the story of the resurrected Paul. It was also pointed out that [the ‘original’] Paul’s claim to have seen Aung San, the revolutionary leader of Myanmar (father of current opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi) in hell ‘because he persecuted and killed Christians, but mostly because he didn’t believe in Jesus Christ’ was completely without foundation. He is a well known figure in Burmese/Myanmar thinking and history - and there is no evidence at all that he persecuted any Christians, let alone killed any. AMO/Asia Harvest has invited ‘Christian believers to judge it [Paul’s resurrection story] according to Scripture.’ As one senior Myanmar pastor pointed out, the story and description of hell given by Paul, is itself contrary to Scripture. Paul’s story is also in conflict with the story Jesus told in the account of the rich man and the beggar, Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31). When carefully examined it is also in conflict with the comments of the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 15 - in particular where that Paul was able to name eye witnesses to the resurrection of Christ - and acknowledged at the time that some were still living - in other words, he was able to produce witnesses who could testify to the authenticity of his claims. Pastors in Myanmar are still asking for real evidence and living witnesses to the claimed miracle with whom they can discuss and verify the story. So far, the story’s authenticity remains with the claims made by Asia Harvest. The story of the ‘resurrected Paul’ is known throughout much of Myanmar - and his tape has circulated (in several versions). Hardly anyone in Myanmar - especially amongst Christian leaders - has accepted or believed the story. There is just nothing to back it up. Far from the ‘resurrected monk’ story providing a ‘fearless and faithful witness to Jesus Christ, whose testimony is converting Buddhists, strengthening the church or bringing glory to God’s name’, Myanmar pastor have told our Director that it has brought fear and suspicion to many Christians in the country. We concluded our 2001 report with the comment: Whatever the truth behind this sad saga, most Christians, and most pastors and church leaders in Myanmar, are not taking this story seriously and see little value in it for the growth of the Christian community in that country. From the evidence we have been able to examine, including the claims and content of the story itself, and all the discussions with Pastors and others in Myanmar, we believe it would have been wiser for the story not to have been published and circulated. We believe that ‘miracle stories’ which cannot be adequately substantiated ought to be treated with caution – especially if those stories, or significant parts of those stories, do not conform to Scripture. Lives continue to be changed by the resurrected and living Jesus Christ – sometimes dramatically, sometimes quietly – the substance of those changed lives are quiet miracles that are often clear and undisputed. They continue to honour Christ and encourage others. Burmese \"Paul\" as in the story |
2023.06.05 04:23 _WillCAD_ Pumped for the crossover
I'm almost ashamed to admit it, but I think I'm looking forward to the Lower Decks crossover more than anything else in the upcoming Strange New Worlds season 2. I mean, I love the show, but the crossover has me so pumped.
I remember when it was first announced, before we knew it would just be Mariner and Boimler on the Enterprise, I wondered what it would be like for the entire Ceritos crew to visit their counterparts...
Mariner: Wow, look at the hair! It's even higher than Boimlers!
Ortegas: He'd never admit it in a million years, but he spends HOURS on that do every day. It's like a beloved pet or something.
Mariner: Pet, huh? Does it have a name?
Ortegas: I don't know. I just call it Skippy.
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Ransom: You're a hot Number One, I'm a hot Number One, it's like destiny or fate or kismet that we should be together.
Una: I wouldn't touch you if you were the last male sentient being in the entire quadrant.
Ransom: What about the galaxy? How about if I was the last male in the entire galaxy?
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Freeman: Ugh! Why do you have so many steps on this bridge!?
Pike: The designers thought a multi-level bridge would best facilitate communication in crisis situations. I take it your bridge doesn't have steps? Is your bridge all one level? Do you have to talk over your peoples' heads when you give orders?
Freeman: No, my bridge is not FLAT! It's multi-level! But we have RAMPS! Don't you people in the 23rd century care about ACCESSIBILITY!?
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Uhura: So, your communicator is actually built INTO the badge? And it actually includes a universal translator? Like, with the ENTIRE Federation linguistic database!?
Rutherford: Yeah! It also includes a biosigns monitor, sub-meter positioning system, a personal log recorder, AND it tells you the time!
Uhura: Does it have a stopwatch?
Rutherford: No, but that's an AWESOME idea! I'm gonna make that an upgrade when we get back to the 25th century! Thanks, Uhura!
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Tendi: Wow! You guys are like, the PIONEERS of space medicine! Some of the stuff you invented is still in use in OUR sickbay! What are you working on now?
M'Benga: Well, we're trying to improve the efficiency of hironolin to reverse radiation damage more quickly in the event of massive life-threatening exposures.
Tendi: Hironolin? You're still messing around with that old crap?
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Boimler: You store phasers handle-down? You really should store them handle-up for maximum efficiency. In the future we store all our phasers handle up.
La'an: You don't say.
Boimler: Oh, yeah. And you should really put the field jackets near the door, so you can grab a jacket first, then a tricorder, then a phaser. It's the most efficient way to gear up for an Away mission. That's how all the best ships do it in the future.
La'an: Right, so if we could get back to our assignment...
Boimler: Of course, if you REALLY want to be efficient, you'd have a door straight from the locker room to the transporter room. That's how we do it in the future. We're ALL about efficiency in the future.
La'an: Look, purple-hair, if you don't shut up and get back to the assignment, I'm going to show you how efficiently I can KICK YOUR ASS!
Boimler: My god... You are the hottest woman I've ever met.
La'an:
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Mariner: Wow, look at the hair! It's even higher than Boimlers!
Ortegas: He'd never admit it in a million years, but he spends HOURS on that do every day. It's like a beloved pet or something.
Mariner: Pet, huh? Does it have a name?
Ortegas: I don't know. I just call it Skippy.
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Ransom: You're a hot Number One, I'm a hot Number One, it's like destiny or fate or kismet that we should be together.
Una: I wouldn't touch you if you were the last male sentient being in the entire quadrant.
Ransom: What about the galaxy? How about if I was the last male in the entire galaxy?
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Freeman
Pike: The designers thought a multi-level bridge would best facilitate communication in crisis situations. I take it your bridge doesn't have steps? Is your bridge all one level? Do you have to talk over your peoples' heads when you give orders?
Freeman: No, my bridge is not FLAT! It's multi-level! But we have RAMPS! Don't you people in the 23rd century care about ACCESSIBILITY!?
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Uhura: So, your communicator is actually built INTO the badge? And it actually includes a universal translator? Like, with the ENTIRE Federation linguistic database!?
Rutherford: Yeah! It also includes a biosigns monitor, sub-meter positioning system, a personal log recorder, AND it tells you the time!
Uhura: Does it have a stopwatch?
Rutherford: No, but that's an AWESOME idea! I'm gonna make that an upgrade when we get back to the 25th century! Thanks, Uhura!
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Tendi: Wow! You guys are like, the PIONEERS of space medicine! Some of the stuff you invented is still in use in OUR sickbay! What are you working on now?
M'Benga: Well, we're trying to improve the efficiency of hironolin to reverse radiation damage more quickly in the event of massive life-threatening exposures.
Tendi: Hironolin? You're still messing around with that old crap?
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Boimler: You store phasers handle-down? You really should store them handle-up for maximum efficiency. In the future we store all our phasers handle up.
La'an:
Boimler: Oh, yeah. And you should really put the field jackets near the door, so you can grab a jacket first, then a tricorder, then a phaser. It's the most efficient way to gear up for an Away mission. That's how all the best ships do it in the future.
La'an:
Boimler: Of course, if you REALLY want to be efficient, you'd have a door straight from the locker room to the transporter room. That's how we do it in the future. We're ALL about efficiency in the future.
La'an:
Boimler:
La'an:
2023.06.05 04:01 sumiledon Theories for Beyond the Spider-Verse. Let me know what you think will happen!
Hey guys! OMG, that movie was incredible. A huge testimate to not only the capabilities of animation, but quality storytelling from the perspective of TWO protagonists. DEUTERAGONIST movies are pretty rare because they are hard to do well, and this one does it PERFECTLY.
Apologies for the word vomit below. But I had so much fun theorizing the next film and I would love to hear your guys opinions on how you believe Beyond the Spider-Verse will unfold.
The directors came out and stated that the first two spider-verse movies are about Miles evolving into two things. The first movie was miles growing from a kid to a superhero at the end. The second movie was about Miles growing from a boy to a Man at the end, not afraid of anything the world throws at him anymore. The third movie will be about Miles as a full fledged confident Superhero AND Man, and I CANNOT wait to see my man Miles taking control of his destiny in the next film.
Because of Gwen and Miles stories being synonomous with one another, me and my friends are having so much fun theorizing scenes that we think will happen in the next movie. So I will list off the various theories that we are having, and I would love to see how lilkely you all feel like they could happen.
We loved how the climax began with Gwen talking directly to Miles's parents about him, (wearing his hoodie by the way), telling them how much she cares for him and how much he cares for them. Ending with Rio telling Gwen to let him know that they love him. Considering how competitive Rio was towards Gwen before this point, (as many mothers are towards their teenage son's love interests) we took this as Rio finally accepting the fact that Miles, WILL find confort in other women outside of his mother now, and Gwen will probably be that woman.
We feel that Miguels extreme anger and agression was way too extreme for his actions, especially his comments about Miles not being a real spider-man. To where we feel like he is definetely projecting.
Why arent there any other Miles Morales Spider-men in the movie? Did anyone notice that or find that weird? Like even Spider-man PS4 Miles wasnt in there while PS4 Peter was. Phil Lord and Chris Miller are very detail oriented people. I cant imaging they didnt put one in the movie just because they feel like it wouldnt fit. Given the plot, it would actually fit perfectly for an actual Miles spider-man varient to give his perspective on the matter. Unless...there is a narrative reason for no Miles to be there.
One of the directors of this movie was Kemp Powers, the director of the Pixar movie Soul, and an Oscar nominated screenplay writer. In an interview with the spider-verse directors he stated that he was the one in charge of directing all of the character interactions and actor voice direction. And it shows with the amount of authentic black and latino expression with the actors and animators in this movie. Prowler Miles from Earth-42 was such a dope reveal, and it is known that he was supposed to be the spider-man of that unvierse before the spider went to our Miles' universe instead. I am excited to see what he will be like.
Overall I LOVED the team up with Miles, Hobbie, Gwen and Spider-man India in Mumbatton. It was such the perfect teenager superhero fight scene that felt like actual superhero teenagers fighting together, without it coming across as cringe.
"Gwen Stacy falls in Love with Spider-man and dies" This is a theme brought up directly in the movie and I feel will be addressed in the next film. Gwen is afraid of pursuing a relationship with Miles because she believes it could lead to her death.
Speaking of teenage moments, the "love triangle" of Gwen, Hobbie and Miles was fun because it was mostly never really addressed and kind of just in the air. Like did Gwen and Hobbie hook up a couple times?....i mean maybe, but Hobbie doesnt seem territorial, and Gwen seems to be very much more emotionally interested in Miles. I love how they just make Hobbie a chill guys with Miles. But did anyone see the Spider-byte and Miles Chemestry when they first met. Both of their spider-senses went off...which never happend with Miles and anyone else there, and we see that Miles flirts with her a little, to the point where Gwen demands they leave, gets a little jelous and webs miles to pull him to her so they can walk on to Miguel.
The producers stated that a live action movie is in the works and coming very soon. This gave me "links to spider-verse" vibes. her is a theory that live action Miles Morales from the MCU will make his first appearence at the end of the next movie. As an introduction and a lead in to who will be the next Miles Morales movie franchise protagonist.
Some smaller theories
Sorry for the word vomit. Let me know you agree with the theories!
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Apologies for the word vomit below. But I had so much fun theorizing the next film and I would love to hear your guys opinions on how you believe Beyond the Spider-Verse will unfold.
The directors came out and stated that the first two spider-verse movies are about Miles evolving into two things. The first movie was miles growing from a kid to a superhero at the end. The second movie was about Miles growing from a boy to a Man at the end, not afraid of anything the world throws at him anymore. The third movie will be about Miles as a full fledged confident Superhero AND Man, and I CANNOT wait to see my man Miles taking control of his destiny in the next film.
Because of Gwen and Miles stories being synonomous with one another, me and my friends are having so much fun theorizing scenes that we think will happen in the next movie. So I will list off the various theories that we are having, and I would love to see how lilkely you all feel like they could happen.
We loved how the climax began with Gwen talking directly to Miles's parents about him, (wearing his hoodie by the way), telling them how much she cares for him and how much he cares for them. Ending with Rio telling Gwen to let him know that they love him. Considering how competitive Rio was towards Gwen before this point, (as many mothers are towards their teenage son's love interests) we took this as Rio finally accepting the fact that Miles, WILL find confort in other women outside of his mother now, and Gwen will probably be that woman.
- Captain Stacy, similar to Rio, has similar fears about losing/not being able to protect his daughter. We think that as a mirror to Gwens scene with Rio and Jeff, there will be an emotional moment in Beyond the Spider-verse, where Miles will have a 1on1 heart to heart with Captain Stacey, where Gwen's father realizes that Miles will probably be the new Man of Gwen's life that she looks to for security and confort. Maybe a similar climax where after Miles forgives Gwen, shes in a bad situation with the spot or Miguel, and he makes a promise to Captain Stacy about keeping her safe and bringing her back home.
We feel that Miguels extreme anger and agression was way too extreme for his actions, especially his comments about Miles not being a real spider-man. To where we feel like he is definetely projecting.
- We think there will be a reveal where Miguel not being like the other spiders, or a "real" spider-man is an insecruity he has. And because he could never have a true happy life, part of his anger and jelously is the fact that Miles, who is an anomoly, can think that he can be lucky enough to actually get bit AND have a happy life not filled with constant trauma, angers him. I feel that insecurity will be revealed more in Beyond.
Why arent there any other Miles Morales Spider-men in the movie? Did anyone notice that or find that weird? Like even Spider-man PS4 Miles wasnt in there while PS4 Peter was. Phil Lord and Chris Miller are very detail oriented people. I cant imaging they didnt put one in the movie just because they feel like it wouldnt fit. Given the plot, it would actually fit perfectly for an actual Miles spider-man varient to give his perspective on the matter. Unless...there is a narrative reason for no Miles to be there.
- I think that there is no other Miles Spider-man as of now. Even in the PS4 universe, Miles morales Spider-man doesnt exist. And whatever occurs in the next movie will end up destroying the "Canon" everywhere for good, leading to the existence of Miles Morales's everywhere in the timelines more. There is nothing in the movie that gives me this belief, aside from the fact that I have to believe there must be a reason why not a single one of the many Miles Morales Spider-man varients showed up in this strike force or movie, but nearly every single Peter Parker varient we can think of, does appear. Like their should be a reason right?
One of the directors of this movie was Kemp Powers, the director of the Pixar movie Soul, and an Oscar nominated screenplay writer. In an interview with the spider-verse directors he stated that he was the one in charge of directing all of the character interactions and actor voice direction. And it shows with the amount of authentic black and latino expression with the actors and animators in this movie. Prowler Miles from Earth-42 was such a dope reveal, and it is known that he was supposed to be the spider-man of that unvierse before the spider went to our Miles' universe instead. I am excited to see what he will be like.
- We have an idea that he will actually be an Anti-hero and not a straight up villain, or if he is a villain he will become an antihero later and team up with Miles. Seeing both Miles look at each other gave me Huey and Riley vibes from the Boondocks. And I cant help but be exicted to see how their dynamic will be in the film. But in particular we feel like there will be a "Twin Switch" trope present in the movie. Like The Parent Trap, etc. where Earth-42 Miles pretends to be our Miles or vice versa. Either as an enemy, or as an allie. Do you guys think a moment like that will occur? I feel like its natural when a dynamic like this is introduced.
Overall I LOVED the team up with Miles, Hobbie, Gwen and Spider-man India in Mumbatton. It was such the perfect teenager superhero fight scene that felt like actual superhero teenagers fighting together, without it coming across as cringe.
- This is what I would want a Young Avengers movie to be like, and with Spider-byte and Peni on the team now, I hope we get alot more teenager dynamics within the next film, within the fights and even some teenage drama. Nothing to detract from the plot, but ones that work within the plot to up the team element and give moments of chemistry between all the team members, would be fantastic, and can provide a lot of giggles and oos and ahs for the young audience watching, that love that sort of thing, if done right.
"Gwen Stacy falls in Love with Spider-man and dies" This is a theme brought up directly in the movie and I feel will be addressed in the next film. Gwen is afraid of pursuing a relationship with Miles because she believes it could lead to her death.
- We believe that part of her development in this movie was her realizing from Miles that anything is possible, and that she will give Fate and the Canon, the finger, and follow her heart and gut, ignoring what the universe, or Miguel is saying should happen.
Speaking of teenage moments, the "love triangle" of Gwen, Hobbie and Miles was fun because it was mostly never really addressed and kind of just in the air. Like did Gwen and Hobbie hook up a couple times?....i mean maybe, but Hobbie doesnt seem territorial, and Gwen seems to be very much more emotionally interested in Miles. I love how they just make Hobbie a chill guys with Miles. But did anyone see the Spider-byte and Miles Chemestry when they first met. Both of their spider-senses went off...which never happend with Miles and anyone else there, and we see that Miles flirts with her a little, to the point where Gwen demands they leave, gets a little jelous and webs miles to pull him to her so they can walk on to Miguel.
- I think mirroring the hobbie, gwen and Miles dynamic, there will be a little teenagery jelous dynamic but with spider-byte, miles and Gwen, but this time Gwen being the Jelous party. Not anything super shallow or padantic. But some cute teenage jealousy moments possibly here or there with Gwen, similar to Miles in this movie. Maybe have a moment between Hobbie and Spider-byte where they recognize Miles and Gwens jealousy involving the both of them and roll their eyes at how in love they are. Could be cute.
The producers stated that a live action movie is in the works and coming very soon. This gave me "links to spider-verse" vibes. her is a theory that live action Miles Morales from the MCU will make his first appearence at the end of the next movie. As an introduction and a lead in to who will be the next Miles Morales movie franchise protagonist.
- I think it would be cool, if the final scene of the movie would be Miguel or Miles or anyone going to Universe 199999 for a mission or whatever to track down the spider-man, and they think its Tom Holland only to find its another signerture, and we see for the first time, the Miles Morales of the MCU. Or something like that.
Some smaller theories
- Miles and Gwen will end up together.
- Miles will get to save his father AND the multi-verse with no major sacrifice.
- Nobody of note will die. (This is one of the few epic movies where I would be okay with that)
- Spider-man PS4 Peter and Miles will be in here as actual speaking roles and part of the final fights.(I feel like, there is no reason for that to not be the case, and as Sony owns them both and it is incredibly easy to get them in, I cant see why they wouldnt be.)
Sorry for the word vomit. Let me know you agree with the theories!
2023.06.05 03:51 bosandaros [Neighbor] - Chapter 12
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
POV: Mavis
They were deep into the game when Mavis glanced at the black sky between the open blinds. The screen was suddenly so bright in the dark room, and her muscles ached when she stretched around the controller.
Her legs swung off the end of the bed as she tilted the controller. At some point, they switched places. Mavis looked at Zed, his glassy eyes frozen over and his tongue stuck out halfway in intense concentration.
She stifled a laugh.
Mavis had never seen anyone that deep in the zone, ever. It was inspiring.
“I have to pee,” Zed announced.
He stood and left the room, leaving the door cracked so the hall light came in. Mavis massaged her hands, then looked down at the controller in her lap. Everything about staying over was so natural. Zed didn’t seem put off by her either.
She was about to push her luck.
The toilet flushed and a minute later he walked back into the room.
“So, I was wondering if I could stay for the night,” Mavis said.
His impassive expression didn’t change in the slightest. She took a breath to go into a diatribe about moving and that her mattress wasn’t ready yet, that the couch had springs sticking out in awkward places and it was impossible to sleep.
“Okay,” he said.
Her breath deflated.
“Well, that was easy,” she said, half-jokingly.
Zed huffed, a laugh, Mavis realized. He sat next to her on the bed and picked up the other controller.
“Let’s continue our game,” Zed said.
“Actually, I think I’m good,” she said.
He shrugged.
Zed exited the game and played Forza Horizon instead.
After some time, Mavis braved the question that she’d been waiting to ask.
“Zed, are you doing anything this weekend?”
He was completely unfazed for a moment, and she thought that he hadn’t heard her.
“I’m going to my dad’s. It’s his birthday. Do you want to go?”
That was almost too easy.
Mavis was momentarily stunned.
“Yes,” she said.
Zed broke his focus from the screen and looked at her.
“Really? It’s going to be boring as hell. I need someone to talk to,” he said.
Zed clutched the controller a bit tighter.
Mavis didn’t know how to respond.
“Yes,” she said again.
He turned his eyes back to the screen, right as he ran into a tree in the middle of a field.
Later that night he slumped over onto her shoulder, dead to the world. Of course, only in a figurative sense, as Mavis would never hurt a blond hair on this angel’s head.
Every minute with him made her feel as close to a normal human being that she could ever possibly be. He made her laugh, made her forget that she could never be discovered. They both loved to drive fast.
She looked at his expression longingly, so beautiful when it was wiped of worry. His red buttondown rode up to expose a white underbelly like a fish, his skin so soft and if she could touch…
Her nose flared as the thought made her boil with pleasure, but she put it away before she thought of things she would regret.
Mavis could see that something was wrong, earlier, but she would take care of that.
That morning she was in his house, unbeknownst to him, before he left for work. From under his bed, Mavis overheard his conversation with his dad about the party they were having. There was an attendee who she was especially interested in meeting, one whose address she attained from Collins’ contact list.
He went by the name of SpinTop. God knew why. Anyone could grab his real moniker the second they saw that his face was plastered right there. He had dark brown hair that was really a rather unconvincing toupee, and a very distinct bump on the bridge of his nose.
She had followed the address to an unassuming house halfway back to the city, one of those bland McMansions that blend with the rest of the cookie-cutter homes where people go to rot in quiet suburbia.
There had been no one home that day, but there lived a man who threatened Collins in recent texts to make the killings look like accidents, or he would be next. But why? She had to know. Especially since this man just so happened to be close to Zed’s parents.
Mavis slipped off of the bed and made herself home on the couch.
The next morning they carpooled to work. His car unlocked with a couple of quick, short clicks and he slid into the passenger’s side.
“Did I ever say that I wanted to take it for a ride or did you read my mind about that?” she laughed, then snorted at the end.
Zed gave her an amused smile.
Her heart could have broken ribs.
“I think you told me, but I’m not sure,” he answered.
“Oh well. Let’s ride,” she said.
Mavis revved the engine. They took off down the long stretch of road. She didn’t care for how different it was from the city. The dull, empty fields of green raced by with hardly a thing in between. How much longer until the flowers bored her?
Mavis did not plan this through.
She turned the radio up slightly.
“Another victim found dead on the freeway Mike-”
The radio buzzed and crackled as Mavis quickly flipped the channel.
Electric Love by Børns drowned out the static, for the most part. The signal out here was abysmal.
“What do you like to listen to?” Mavis asked.
Zed turned a little red at the question.
“This is fine,” he said.
She grinned.
“Okay.”
Mavis had time to figure out what his favorite music was. Then she could take him back to the city with her, and they could hopefully get some better reception. Erica was sitting in her car when they pulled up next to her, with a peculiar expression as she stared at her phone.
The window was rolled down and so Zed greeted her with a hello.
“Hey,” Erica replied distantly.
She put her phone in her purse fast and stepped out of the car. Erica pushed up her glasses and gave them both a strange smile.
“I see you’re carpooling now,” she observed.
Zed shrugged.
Mavis gave her a nearly predatory grin.
“Maybe we could go for a ride sometime.”
Erica coughed.
“Well, that sounds good with all that’s…going on.”
Her hand waved in an airy manner.
Zed was a still statue, a million miles away.
He snapped back to life as Mavis looked at him.
“I’ll see you later, Mavis. Thanks for the ride,” he said.
“Yeah,” she said.
Mavis curled a lip as they walked together.
Why couldn’t she work in the same room with him? Why did it have to be Erica digging through bodies? Whatever. She still got to ride with him. Mavis made a smug humph and made her way to the morgue. It was right across from the pathology lab so it wasn’t a long walk away.
The typical clatter and chaos filled the space in which she thrived. Mavis had bigger plans, but this place would get her through the mundanity for now just fine. As she walked down to her room, she spotted two officers, one that she had met. Gram? Gramins?
The other was fat and tan with soft brown eyes.
They dipped their heads as she approached.
Mavis corked a brow.
“Hello,” she said.
“You’re Ms. Buckley, correct ma’am?” Stewart said.
Mavis looked between them awkwardly.
“Am I in trouble?”
The other laughed.
“No, but we do have a few questions,” she said.
Grant, that was her name. Her voice jogged something in Mavis. She dipped into a state of eerie calm, something which was honed over the years until Zed came along. She didn’t sweat a drop around these two, however.
Mavis hummed and conjured an easy smile.
“Yes sir, yes ma’am.”
They walked back up the stairs to a patrol car.
“Now what is all this? Am I under arrest?” she asked, affecting a high, squeaky voice as though she were alarmed.
Mavis was, deep down, but the emotion did not come through the thick walls in her mind should she need to find a clear exit out. It would be a real bummer if she missed the party because they found her out.
“Ma’am, we are questioning everyone who has come into contact with Sir Buck Collins. We have grounds to suspect that he was involved in a recent homicide,” Stewart said.
The man began to take on the same stoney appearance that Zed had, totally spaced out, as if he were in a Vietnam flashback.
They, Mavis concluded, had seen something that she wasn’t aware of. Yet they didn’t suspect her. Mavis was now truly at ease with them. In fact, this was quite the advantageous position. Collins was dead and he’d be pinned for her recent activities.
This was perfection.
She held down a grin, pleased inside like the cat that ate the canary.
Mavis got into the back of the car, the other two up front. They drove the short distance in silence to the police station.
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Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
POV: Mavis
They were deep into the game when Mavis glanced at the black sky between the open blinds. The screen was suddenly so bright in the dark room, and her muscles ached when she stretched around the controller.
Her legs swung off the end of the bed as she tilted the controller. At some point, they switched places. Mavis looked at Zed, his glassy eyes frozen over and his tongue stuck out halfway in intense concentration.
She stifled a laugh.
Mavis had never seen anyone that deep in the zone, ever. It was inspiring.
“I have to pee,” Zed announced.
He stood and left the room, leaving the door cracked so the hall light came in. Mavis massaged her hands, then looked down at the controller in her lap. Everything about staying over was so natural. Zed didn’t seem put off by her either.
She was about to push her luck.
The toilet flushed and a minute later he walked back into the room.
“So, I was wondering if I could stay for the night,” Mavis said.
His impassive expression didn’t change in the slightest. She took a breath to go into a diatribe about moving and that her mattress wasn’t ready yet, that the couch had springs sticking out in awkward places and it was impossible to sleep.
“Okay,” he said.
Her breath deflated.
“Well, that was easy,” she said, half-jokingly.
Zed huffed, a laugh, Mavis realized. He sat next to her on the bed and picked up the other controller.
“Let’s continue our game,” Zed said.
“Actually, I think I’m good,” she said.
He shrugged.
Zed exited the game and played Forza Horizon instead.
After some time, Mavis braved the question that she’d been waiting to ask.
“Zed, are you doing anything this weekend?”
He was completely unfazed for a moment, and she thought that he hadn’t heard her.
“I’m going to my dad’s. It’s his birthday. Do you want to go?”
That was almost too easy.
Mavis was momentarily stunned.
“Yes,” she said.
Zed broke his focus from the screen and looked at her.
“Really? It’s going to be boring as hell. I need someone to talk to,” he said.
Zed clutched the controller a bit tighter.
Mavis didn’t know how to respond.
“Yes,” she said again.
He turned his eyes back to the screen, right as he ran into a tree in the middle of a field.
Later that night he slumped over onto her shoulder, dead to the world. Of course, only in a figurative sense, as Mavis would never hurt a blond hair on this angel’s head.
Every minute with him made her feel as close to a normal human being that she could ever possibly be. He made her laugh, made her forget that she could never be discovered. They both loved to drive fast.
She looked at his expression longingly, so beautiful when it was wiped of worry. His red buttondown rode up to expose a white underbelly like a fish, his skin so soft and if she could touch…
Her nose flared as the thought made her boil with pleasure, but she put it away before she thought of things she would regret.
Mavis could see that something was wrong, earlier, but she would take care of that.
That morning she was in his house, unbeknownst to him, before he left for work. From under his bed, Mavis overheard his conversation with his dad about the party they were having. There was an attendee who she was especially interested in meeting, one whose address she attained from Collins’ contact list.
He went by the name of SpinTop. God knew why. Anyone could grab his real moniker the second they saw that his face was plastered right there. He had dark brown hair that was really a rather unconvincing toupee, and a very distinct bump on the bridge of his nose.
She had followed the address to an unassuming house halfway back to the city, one of those bland McMansions that blend with the rest of the cookie-cutter homes where people go to rot in quiet suburbia.
There had been no one home that day, but there lived a man who threatened Collins in recent texts to make the killings look like accidents, or he would be next. But why? She had to know. Especially since this man just so happened to be close to Zed’s parents.
Mavis slipped off of the bed and made herself home on the couch.
The next morning they carpooled to work. His car unlocked with a couple of quick, short clicks and he slid into the passenger’s side.
“Did I ever say that I wanted to take it for a ride or did you read my mind about that?” she laughed, then snorted at the end.
Zed gave her an amused smile.
Her heart could have broken ribs.
“I think you told me, but I’m not sure,” he answered.
“Oh well. Let’s ride,” she said.
Mavis revved the engine. They took off down the long stretch of road. She didn’t care for how different it was from the city. The dull, empty fields of green raced by with hardly a thing in between. How much longer until the flowers bored her?
Mavis did not plan this through.
She turned the radio up slightly.
“Another victim found dead on the freeway Mike-”
The radio buzzed and crackled as Mavis quickly flipped the channel.
Electric Love by Børns drowned out the static, for the most part. The signal out here was abysmal.
“What do you like to listen to?” Mavis asked.
Zed turned a little red at the question.
“This is fine,” he said.
She grinned.
“Okay.”
Mavis had time to figure out what his favorite music was. Then she could take him back to the city with her, and they could hopefully get some better reception. Erica was sitting in her car when they pulled up next to her, with a peculiar expression as she stared at her phone.
The window was rolled down and so Zed greeted her with a hello.
“Hey,” Erica replied distantly.
She put her phone in her purse fast and stepped out of the car. Erica pushed up her glasses and gave them both a strange smile.
“I see you’re carpooling now,” she observed.
Zed shrugged.
Mavis gave her a nearly predatory grin.
“Maybe we could go for a ride sometime.”
Erica coughed.
“Well, that sounds good with all that’s…going on.”
Her hand waved in an airy manner.
Zed was a still statue, a million miles away.
He snapped back to life as Mavis looked at him.
“I’ll see you later, Mavis. Thanks for the ride,” he said.
“Yeah,” she said.
Mavis curled a lip as they walked together.
Why couldn’t she work in the same room with him? Why did it have to be Erica digging through bodies? Whatever. She still got to ride with him. Mavis made a smug humph and made her way to the morgue. It was right across from the pathology lab so it wasn’t a long walk away.
The typical clatter and chaos filled the space in which she thrived. Mavis had bigger plans, but this place would get her through the mundanity for now just fine. As she walked down to her room, she spotted two officers, one that she had met. Gram? Gramins?
The other was fat and tan with soft brown eyes.
They dipped their heads as she approached.
Mavis corked a brow.
“Hello,” she said.
“You’re Ms. Buckley, correct ma’am?” Stewart said.
Mavis looked between them awkwardly.
“Am I in trouble?”
The other laughed.
“No, but we do have a few questions,” she said.
Grant, that was her name. Her voice jogged something in Mavis. She dipped into a state of eerie calm, something which was honed over the years until Zed came along. She didn’t sweat a drop around these two, however.
Mavis hummed and conjured an easy smile.
“Yes sir, yes ma’am.”
They walked back up the stairs to a patrol car.
“Now what is all this? Am I under arrest?” she asked, affecting a high, squeaky voice as though she were alarmed.
Mavis was, deep down, but the emotion did not come through the thick walls in her mind should she need to find a clear exit out. It would be a real bummer if she missed the party because they found her out.
“Ma’am, we are questioning everyone who has come into contact with Sir Buck Collins. We have grounds to suspect that he was involved in a recent homicide,” Stewart said.
The man began to take on the same stoney appearance that Zed had, totally spaced out, as if he were in a Vietnam flashback.
They, Mavis concluded, had seen something that she wasn’t aware of. Yet they didn’t suspect her. Mavis was now truly at ease with them. In fact, this was quite the advantageous position. Collins was dead and he’d be pinned for her recent activities.
This was perfection.
She held down a grin, pleased inside like the cat that ate the canary.
Mavis got into the back of the car, the other two up front. They drove the short distance in silence to the police station.
2023.06.05 03:48 AC_the_Panther_007 Rebooking WWE Survivor Series: Part 2 (From Survivor Series 1992 to Survivor Series 1996)
Part 1: https://www.reddit.com/fantasybooking/comments/140vxxe/rebooking_wwe_survivor_series_part_1_from/
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Survivor Series '92 (November 25, 1992 at the Richfield Coliseum in Richfield Township, Ohio):
Jake Roberts def. Tatanka
The Headshrinkers (Fatu and Samu) (w/Afa) def. Owen Hart and The British Bulldog (w/Jim Neidhart)
Big Boss Man def. Repo Man
Team Santana (Tito Santana, The Natural Disasters (Earthquake and Typhoon), and The Legion of Doom (Animal and Hawk)) (w/Paul Ellering) def. Team Martel (Rick Martel, Money Inc. (Ted DiBiase and Irwin R. Schyster), and The Beverly Brothers (Beau and Blake Beverly)) (w/The Genius) (The Legion of Doom (Animal and Hawk) are the Sole Survivors)
Yokozuna (w/Mr. Fuji) def. Crush
Team Hogan (Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, The Ultimate Warrior, Roddy Piper, and Mr. Perfect) (w/Jimmy Hart) def. Team Flair (Ric Flair, Sid Justice, Papa Shango, The Mountie, and Razor Ramon) (w/Bobby Heenan and Harvey Wippleman) - 5-on-5 Survivor Series Elimination Match (Randy Savage and Mr. Perfect are the Sole Survivors)
"The Narcissist" Lex Luger def. Kerry Von Erich
The Undertaker (w/Paul Bearer) def. Kamala (w/Kim Chee and Harvey Wippleman) - Casket Match
Bret Hart (c) def. Shawn Michaels (w/Sensational Sherri) by Submission - WWE Championship Match
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Survivor Series '93 (November 24, 1993 at Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts):
Team Razor (Razor Ramon, Marty Jannetty, The 1-2-3 Kid, Mr. Perfect, and Randy Savage) (w/Miss Elizabeth) def. Team Money Inc. (Adam Bomb, Rick Martel, Shawn Michaels, and Money Inc. (Ted DiBiase and Irwin R. Schyster)) (w/Diesel and Harvey Wippleman) - 5-on-5 Survivor Series Elimination Match (The 1-2-3 Kid and Marty Jannetty are the Sole Survivors)
Sid Justice (w/Harvey Wippleman) def. Jim Duggan
Team Bret (Bret Hart, Owen Hart, and Men on a Mission (Mabel and Mo)) (w/Oscar and Jim Neidhart) vs. Team Lawler (Jerry Lawler, Bam Bam Bigelow, and The Headshrinkers (Fatu and Samu)) (w/Luna Vachon and Afa) - 4-on-4 Survivor Series Elimination Match (Bret Hart is a Sole Survivor)
Diesel (w/Shawn Michaels) def. Tatanka
The Heavenly Bodies (Jimmy Del Ray and Tom Prichard) (w/Jim Cornette) def. The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson) (c) - SMW Tag Team Championship Match (TITLES CHANGE)
Alundra Blayze and Wendi Ritcher def. Luna Vachon and Leilani Kai
The All-Americans (Lex Luger, The Undertaker, Hulk Hogan, and The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott Steiner)) (w/Jimmy Hart) def. The Foreign Fanatics (Yokozuna, Crush, Ludvig Borga, The Quebecers (Jacques and Pierre)) (w/Mr. Fuji, Johnny Polo, and Harley Wippleman) - 5-on-5 Survivor Series Elimination Match (Hulk Hogan and Lex Luger are the Sole Survivors)
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Survivor Series '94 (November 23, 1994 at the Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio, Texas):
The Bad Guys (Razor Ramon, The 1-2-3 Kid, The British Bulldog, Mabel, and Doink the Clown) (w/Mo, Oscar, and Dink the Clown) def. The Teamsters (Shawn Michaels, Diesel, Crush, Jim Neidhart, and Jerry Lawler) (w/Mr. Fuji) by Countout - 5-on-5 Survivor Series Elimination Match (Razor Ramon is a Sole Survivor)
Team Jarrett (Jeff Jarrett, The Quebecers (Jacques and Pierre) and The Heavenly Bodies (Jimmy Del Ray and Tom Pritchard)) (w/Jim Cornette and Johnny Polo) def. Team Savage (Randy Savage, The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott Steiner), and The Headshrinkers (Fatu and Samu)) (w/Afa, Lou Albano, Mr. Perfect, and Miss Elizabeth) - 5-on-5 Survivor Series Elimination Match (Jeff Jarrett and The Heavenly Bodies are the Sole Survivors)
Bret Hart def. Owen Hart (c) by Submission - Submission Match for the WWE Championship (with Bob Backlund as Special Guest Referee)
The Million Dollar Team (Bam Bam Bigelow, Tatanka, Irwin R. Schyster, Sycho Sid, and King Kong Bundy) (w/Ted DiBiase) def. Guts and Glory (Lex Luger, Adam Bomb, Bob Holly, and The Smoking Gunns (Billy and Bart Gunn)) - 5-on-5 Survivor Series Elimination Match (Bam Bam Bigelow and King Kong Bundy are the Sole Survivors)
Team Blayze (Alundra Blayze, Akira Hokuto, Mayumi Ozaki, and Cutie Suzuki) def. Team Nakano (Bull Nakano, Luna Vachon, Leilani Kai, and Heidi Lee Morgan) - 4-on-4 Survivor Series Elimination Match (Team Blayze clean sweep)
The Undertaker (w/Paul Bearer) def. Yokozuna (w/Mr. Fuji and Jim Cornette) - Casket Match (with Chuck Norris as a Special Guest Referee)
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Survivor Series '95 (November 19, 1995 at the USAir Arena in Landover, Maryland):
The BodyDonnas (Skip, Rad Radford, The 1-2-3 Kid, Tom Pritchard, and Goldust) (w/Sunny, Ted DiBiase, and Marlena) def. The Underdogs (Marty Jannetty, Hakushi, Barry Horowitz, Bob Holly, and Bam Bam Bigelow) - 5-on-5 Survivor Series Elimination Match (The 1-2-3 Kid is a Sole Survivor)
Team Faye (Bertha Faye, Luna Vachon, Aja Kong, Tomoko Watanabe, and Lioness Asuka) (w/Ted DiBiase and Harvey Wippleman) def. Team Blayze (Alundra Blayze, Manami Toyota, Kyoko Inoue, Sakie Hasegawa, and Chaparita Asari) - 5-on-5 Survivor Series Elimination Match (Aja Kong is a Sole Survivor)
The Smoking Gunns (Billy and Bart Gunn) (c) def. Jeff Jarrett and The Roadie - WWE Tag Team Championship Match
The Darkside (The Undertaker, Savio Vega, Fatu, Adam Bomb, and Henry O. Godwinn) (w/Paul Bearer and Hillbilly Jim) def. The Royals (Jerry Lawler, Isaac Yankem DDS, Hunter Hearst Helmsley, and Men on a Mission (Mabel and Mo)) (w/Harvey Wippleman) - 5-on-5 Survivor Series Elimination Match (Undertaker, Fatu, Savio, and Godwinn are the Sole Survivors)
Team Michaels (Shawn Michaels, Ahmed Johnson, The British Bulldog, Tatanka, and Sycho Sid) (w/Ted DiBiase) def. Team Razor (Razor Ramon, Yokozuna, Jean-Pierre Lafitte, Owen Hart, and Jim Neidhart) (w/Mr. Fuji, Jim Cornette, Dean Douglas) - 5-on-5 "Wild Card" Survivor Series Elimination Match (Ahmed, Bulldog, and HBK are the Sole Survivors)
Bret Hart def. Diesel (c) - No Disqualification Match for the WWE Championship (TITLE CHANGE)
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Survivor Series '96 (November 17, 1996 at the Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York):
Mark Henry def. Jerry Lawler by Countout
Team Bart (Bart Gunn, Phil LaFon, Doug Furnas, and The Godwinns (Henry O. and Phineas I. Godwinn)) def. Team Billy (Billy Gunn, Owen Hart, The British Bulldog, and The New Rockers (Marty Jannetty and Leif Cassidy)) - 5-on-5 Survivor Series Elimination Match (Doug Furnas and Phil LaFon are the Sole Survivors)
Bob Holly def. Justin Bradshaw (w/Uncle Zebekiah)
The Undertaker def. Mankind (Paul Bearer was suspended above the ring in a shark cage)
Faarooq (w/Clarence Mason) def. Ahmed Johnson (c) by Disqualification - WWE Intercontinental Championship Match
Team Wildman (Marc Mero, Jake Roberts, The Ultimate Warrior, Rocky Maivia, and Savio Vega) (w/Sable) def. Team Austin (Stone Cold Steve Austin, Hunter Hearst Helmsley, Goldust, Crush, and Sycho Sid) (w/Clerence Mason, Chyna and Marlena) - 5-on-5 Survivor Series Elimination Match (Rocky Maivia is a Sole Survivor)
Bret Hart def. Shawn Michaels and Vader (c) - Three-Way Dance Match for the WWE Championship (TITLE CHANGE)
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Part 3 is coming soon (Survivor Series 1997 to Survivor Series 2001).
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Survivor Series '92 (November 25, 1992 at the Richfield Coliseum in Richfield Township, Ohio):
Jake Roberts def. Tatanka
The Headshrinkers (Fatu and Samu) (w/Afa) def. Owen Hart and The British Bulldog (w/Jim Neidhart)
Big Boss Man def. Repo Man
Team Santana (Tito Santana, The Natural Disasters (Earthquake and Typhoon), and The Legion of Doom (Animal and Hawk)) (w/Paul Ellering) def. Team Martel (Rick Martel, Money Inc. (Ted DiBiase and Irwin R. Schyster), and The Beverly Brothers (Beau and Blake Beverly)) (w/The Genius) (The Legion of Doom (Animal and Hawk) are the Sole Survivors)
Yokozuna (w/Mr. Fuji) def. Crush
Team Hogan (Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, The Ultimate Warrior, Roddy Piper, and Mr. Perfect) (w/Jimmy Hart) def. Team Flair (Ric Flair, Sid Justice, Papa Shango, The Mountie, and Razor Ramon) (w/Bobby Heenan and Harvey Wippleman) - 5-on-5 Survivor Series Elimination Match (Randy Savage and Mr. Perfect are the Sole Survivors)
"The Narcissist" Lex Luger def. Kerry Von Erich
The Undertaker (w/Paul Bearer) def. Kamala (w/Kim Chee and Harvey Wippleman) - Casket Match
Bret Hart (c) def. Shawn Michaels (w/Sensational Sherri) by Submission - WWE Championship Match
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Survivor Series '93 (November 24, 1993 at Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts):
Team Razor (Razor Ramon, Marty Jannetty, The 1-2-3 Kid, Mr. Perfect, and Randy Savage) (w/Miss Elizabeth) def. Team Money Inc. (Adam Bomb, Rick Martel, Shawn Michaels, and Money Inc. (Ted DiBiase and Irwin R. Schyster)) (w/Diesel and Harvey Wippleman) - 5-on-5 Survivor Series Elimination Match (The 1-2-3 Kid and Marty Jannetty are the Sole Survivors)
Sid Justice (w/Harvey Wippleman) def. Jim Duggan
Team Bret (Bret Hart, Owen Hart, and Men on a Mission (Mabel and Mo)) (w/Oscar and Jim Neidhart) vs. Team Lawler (Jerry Lawler, Bam Bam Bigelow, and The Headshrinkers (Fatu and Samu)) (w/Luna Vachon and Afa) - 4-on-4 Survivor Series Elimination Match (Bret Hart is a Sole Survivor)
Diesel (w/Shawn Michaels) def. Tatanka
The Heavenly Bodies (Jimmy Del Ray and Tom Prichard) (w/Jim Cornette) def. The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson) (c) - SMW Tag Team Championship Match (TITLES CHANGE)
Alundra Blayze and Wendi Ritcher def. Luna Vachon and Leilani Kai
The All-Americans (Lex Luger, The Undertaker, Hulk Hogan, and The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott Steiner)) (w/Jimmy Hart) def. The Foreign Fanatics (Yokozuna, Crush, Ludvig Borga, The Quebecers (Jacques and Pierre)) (w/Mr. Fuji, Johnny Polo, and Harley Wippleman) - 5-on-5 Survivor Series Elimination Match (Hulk Hogan and Lex Luger are the Sole Survivors)
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Survivor Series '94 (November 23, 1994 at the Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio, Texas):
The Bad Guys (Razor Ramon, The 1-2-3 Kid, The British Bulldog, Mabel, and Doink the Clown) (w/Mo, Oscar, and Dink the Clown) def. The Teamsters (Shawn Michaels, Diesel, Crush, Jim Neidhart, and Jerry Lawler) (w/Mr. Fuji) by Countout - 5-on-5 Survivor Series Elimination Match (Razor Ramon is a Sole Survivor)
Team Jarrett (Jeff Jarrett, The Quebecers (Jacques and Pierre) and The Heavenly Bodies (Jimmy Del Ray and Tom Pritchard)) (w/Jim Cornette and Johnny Polo) def. Team Savage (Randy Savage, The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott Steiner), and The Headshrinkers (Fatu and Samu)) (w/Afa, Lou Albano, Mr. Perfect, and Miss Elizabeth) - 5-on-5 Survivor Series Elimination Match (Jeff Jarrett and The Heavenly Bodies are the Sole Survivors)
Bret Hart def. Owen Hart (c) by Submission - Submission Match for the WWE Championship (with Bob Backlund as Special Guest Referee)
The Million Dollar Team (Bam Bam Bigelow, Tatanka, Irwin R. Schyster, Sycho Sid, and King Kong Bundy) (w/Ted DiBiase) def. Guts and Glory (Lex Luger, Adam Bomb, Bob Holly, and The Smoking Gunns (Billy and Bart Gunn)) - 5-on-5 Survivor Series Elimination Match (Bam Bam Bigelow and King Kong Bundy are the Sole Survivors)
Team Blayze (Alundra Blayze, Akira Hokuto, Mayumi Ozaki, and Cutie Suzuki) def. Team Nakano (Bull Nakano, Luna Vachon, Leilani Kai, and Heidi Lee Morgan) - 4-on-4 Survivor Series Elimination Match (Team Blayze clean sweep)
The Undertaker (w/Paul Bearer) def. Yokozuna (w/Mr. Fuji and Jim Cornette) - Casket Match (with Chuck Norris as a Special Guest Referee)
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Survivor Series '95 (November 19, 1995 at the USAir Arena in Landover, Maryland):
The BodyDonnas (Skip, Rad Radford, The 1-2-3 Kid, Tom Pritchard, and Goldust) (w/Sunny, Ted DiBiase, and Marlena) def. The Underdogs (Marty Jannetty, Hakushi, Barry Horowitz, Bob Holly, and Bam Bam Bigelow) - 5-on-5 Survivor Series Elimination Match (The 1-2-3 Kid is a Sole Survivor)
Team Faye (Bertha Faye, Luna Vachon, Aja Kong, Tomoko Watanabe, and Lioness Asuka) (w/Ted DiBiase and Harvey Wippleman) def. Team Blayze (Alundra Blayze, Manami Toyota, Kyoko Inoue, Sakie Hasegawa, and Chaparita Asari) - 5-on-5 Survivor Series Elimination Match (Aja Kong is a Sole Survivor)
The Smoking Gunns (Billy and Bart Gunn) (c) def. Jeff Jarrett and The Roadie - WWE Tag Team Championship Match
The Darkside (The Undertaker, Savio Vega, Fatu, Adam Bomb, and Henry O. Godwinn) (w/Paul Bearer and Hillbilly Jim) def. The Royals (Jerry Lawler, Isaac Yankem DDS, Hunter Hearst Helmsley, and Men on a Mission (Mabel and Mo)) (w/Harvey Wippleman) - 5-on-5 Survivor Series Elimination Match (Undertaker, Fatu, Savio, and Godwinn are the Sole Survivors)
Team Michaels (Shawn Michaels, Ahmed Johnson, The British Bulldog, Tatanka, and Sycho Sid) (w/Ted DiBiase) def. Team Razor (Razor Ramon, Yokozuna, Jean-Pierre Lafitte, Owen Hart, and Jim Neidhart) (w/Mr. Fuji, Jim Cornette, Dean Douglas) - 5-on-5 "Wild Card" Survivor Series Elimination Match (Ahmed, Bulldog, and HBK are the Sole Survivors)
Bret Hart def. Diesel (c) - No Disqualification Match for the WWE Championship (TITLE CHANGE)
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Survivor Series '96 (November 17, 1996 at the Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York):
Mark Henry def. Jerry Lawler by Countout
Team Bart (Bart Gunn, Phil LaFon, Doug Furnas, and The Godwinns (Henry O. and Phineas I. Godwinn)) def. Team Billy (Billy Gunn, Owen Hart, The British Bulldog, and The New Rockers (Marty Jannetty and Leif Cassidy)) - 5-on-5 Survivor Series Elimination Match (Doug Furnas and Phil LaFon are the Sole Survivors)
Bob Holly def. Justin Bradshaw (w/Uncle Zebekiah)
The Undertaker def. Mankind (Paul Bearer was suspended above the ring in a shark cage)
Faarooq (w/Clarence Mason) def. Ahmed Johnson (c) by Disqualification - WWE Intercontinental Championship Match
Team Wildman (Marc Mero, Jake Roberts, The Ultimate Warrior, Rocky Maivia, and Savio Vega) (w/Sable) def. Team Austin (Stone Cold Steve Austin, Hunter Hearst Helmsley, Goldust, Crush, and Sycho Sid) (w/Clerence Mason, Chyna and Marlena) - 5-on-5 Survivor Series Elimination Match (Rocky Maivia is a Sole Survivor)
Bret Hart def. Shawn Michaels and Vader (c) - Three-Way Dance Match for the WWE Championship (TITLE CHANGE)
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Part 3 is coming soon (Survivor Series 1997 to Survivor Series 2001).
2023.06.05 03:41 thehighpriestess4 [Online][5e][LGBTQIA+ Friendly][18+][Sunday][Bi-Weekly] Looking for one player to join a long-term homebrew campaign!
Hello! Two of my friends and I are currently looking for another player for a homebrew campaign I've been running. We play every other weekend on Sunday or Saturday (usually Sunday) at 2pm EDT on Discord. We plan our next session at the end of every session. Sessions usually last ~4 hours. We are an all-queer group. New players are welcome.
Players:
This campaign setting is free of homophobia, racism, transphobia, misogyny, etc. I have no interest in playing these things, tension and conflict comes from other places. There will be no pvp without enthusiastic consent from all parties (including stealing from other PCs). I also have a consent-in-gaming form for you to fill out if you end up joining our group.
For the one-shot, make a level 11 character that is part of the wedding party of two brides. You can choose 1 rare magic item and 1 uncommon magic item (or you could choose items of lower rarity).
If you have any questions please leave a comment or send me a message :)
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About the Party
My name is Gavin and my pronouns are they/them and I'm the DM. I'm fairly new at DMing, but I've been playing DnD for over 2 years now. I'm a big rules nerd but I tend to favor the Rule of Cool.Players:
- River (they/them) plays Harry Cox (he/they), a copper dragonborn rangefighter multiclass who uses a heavy crossbow and excels at tracking and hunting monsters.
- Helene (she/they) plays Ariax Dapperling (he/they), an aasimar wild magic sorcerer who gets his powers from the spores of a giant divine mushroom located near his hometown and enjoys crafting weird potions/poisons.
About the Campaign
We are playing in a homebrew world I made with its own pantheon of gods. The world, Oberron, is roughly split into different city-states. You can find a google doc with info about the gods here. There is a lore channel in the discord with maps for the world and more lore. I continue to worldbuild as the campaign goes on.Lately, in the world of Oberron, monsters have been popping up all over the planet, terrorizing the inhabitants of the world. Where are these monsters coming from and how will the world defend itself from their onslaught?The party is currently level 4 and I plan on level-ups happening every 3 or 4 sessions. I plan on the campaign lasting until around level 15. I like to play in worlds with a lot of magic, so it will be common for NPCs to have at least some low-level magical abilities and magic items won't be super rare. I also like to make homebrew magic items specifically tailored for my players. We are using theater of the mind for our sessions. There is potential for inter-planar travel in this campaign as well as venturing into the underdark if that's something that interests you. There is a new monster every session or two, with an overarching villain that will become more obvious as the campaign goes on, and this will eventually lead to an epic ending to the campaign. If you've ever seen Supernatural, this campaign's structure is similar to that (though not intentionally lol).
A copper dragonborn from Kangto set off on a journey hunting these strange creatures after one of them ravaged his hometown. On his journey, he came across a village that had been terrorized by chicken-like creatures who could turn people into stone. He and a local tracked the creatures to a cave and, with some help, exterminated them and some strange hamsters they were with. Upon searching the cave the party found books written in sylvan detailing transmutation experiments and a map of the world with three glowing dots of red light, one of which was right at the spot they stood, and they watched as the dot marking the cave faded and disappeared.
They are now on a mission traveling to these spots and fighting new monsters, battling strange new creatures and, sometimes, fairies.
Will you join our heroes and protect the people of this world?
This campaign setting is free of homophobia, racism, transphobia, misogyny, etc. I have no interest in playing these things, tension and conflict comes from other places. There will be no pvp without enthusiastic consent from all parties (including stealing from other PCs). I also have a consent-in-gaming form for you to fill out if you end up joining our group.
Next Session
Our next session is on Sunday, June 11th, at 2pm EDT. I am hoping to have our new player join that session for a Pride one-shot to meet the party and get a chance to play with the group before continuing the main campaign. This should give you a few weeks to build your character for the main campaign.For the one-shot, make a level 11 character that is part of the wedding party of two brides. You can choose 1 rare magic item and 1 uncommon magic item (or you could choose items of lower rarity).
Building Your Character
When you build your character you have access to all official content and, with permission, any homebrew or UA content. I also have things I've homebrewed that are available, including a race of mushroom people called the boletarii and four sorcerer subclasses I'm currently working on. The sorcerer subclasses are meant to be for descendants of four of the five original gods in my world. They are fire/sun, knowledge/sky, earth/forge, and watechaos. Stats will be rolled in Discord by the usual 4d6 drop the lowest method. If your stat total is below 75, then you can re-roll if you want. HP will also be rolled on Discord. You also can modify your racial ability modifiers to be a +2 in one stat and a +1 in another, or a +1 in three different stats, like WOTC's recently released races. You can choose one uncommon magical item or we can work together to homebrew one for your character.Homerules
- You can cast more than one leveled spell in a turn (e.g. if you use your action to cast fireball, you can still use your bonus action to cast misty step)
- A spell scroll can be used by anybody no matter their class
- Death saving throws will be made for all NPCs and most villains (at least humanoid ones)
Are You Interested?
Fill out this google form if you're interested in joining.If you have any questions please leave a comment or send me a message :)
2023.06.05 03:32 sbourwest Books/Series with really good steady pacing that doesn't shotgun to the endgame?
One of the most jarring things for me is the excessive speed of power creep and harem acquisition in some of these books. It's like they wake up in Book 1 as a total noob who doesn't know anything and can barely hold a sword, and by the end of book 2 he's bedded a dozen women, half of which are in his harem, and he's knocking elbows with royalty and fixing to fight an evil god.
I'm being hyperbolic but really I want to soak in the atmosphere, world building, and character dynamics a little more before things just constantly try to go to maximum stakes.
I honestly don't know what to think of some of these book series that have like 10 entries, and the whole harem is established by book 3 and they are the top of their game.
I'm looking for something where the hero doesn't just have some inborn "I win" button ability that makes all encounters a joke and low consequence, nor do I want every book to throw 4 or 5 women at me and slow the pacing of the story to a crawl because books 2 - 5 are nothing but sex scenes and side stories.
I want a good series where each book builds on the last one without feeling like the MC got powerleveled sometime when I wasn't looking. I want each girl to have plenty of time to really examine their relationship with the MC and for feelings to be genuine and now just start from a "I'm horny, you're horny, we'll sort out the feelings later" premise.
I'm honestly finding it so hard to get into haremlit anymore because the pacing is all over the place, with books already reaching a power climax by book 2 or crawling to a stop with no plot advancement because there's so many women that need a sex scene every other chapter.
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I'm being hyperbolic but really I want to soak in the atmosphere, world building, and character dynamics a little more before things just constantly try to go to maximum stakes.
I honestly don't know what to think of some of these book series that have like 10 entries, and the whole harem is established by book 3 and they are the top of their game.
I'm looking for something where the hero doesn't just have some inborn "I win" button ability that makes all encounters a joke and low consequence, nor do I want every book to throw 4 or 5 women at me and slow the pacing of the story to a crawl because books 2 - 5 are nothing but sex scenes and side stories.
I want a good series where each book builds on the last one without feeling like the MC got powerleveled sometime when I wasn't looking. I want each girl to have plenty of time to really examine their relationship with the MC and for feelings to be genuine and now just start from a "I'm horny, you're horny, we'll sort out the feelings later" premise.
I'm honestly finding it so hard to get into haremlit anymore because the pacing is all over the place, with books already reaching a power climax by book 2 or crawling to a stop with no plot advancement because there's so many women that need a sex scene every other chapter.
2023.06.05 03:03 GamingInTheMoment Reviews Released Week of 5.28.23-6.4.23
I wanted to release my weekly round-up of reviews! I hope you guys enjoy it and are able to find something you like. If there is a game you would like to see a review of or would like to see get more attention, let me know! Check out the channel (found on my reddit profile) where I post video reviews of these games if you are at all interested (cannot link because it will be auto deleted). I did not find any big premium games this week so nothing on that front.
Remember that my 1 minute reviews are F2P Titles.
Premium Reviews
-NONE-
One Minute Reviews
Farlight 84
Shining Light For Mobile
Score 10/10
Did I enjoy it? Yes! Much more than I expected too.
Would I come back to it? Absolutely, I really want to hit top 300 on the server. This is partially the reason that I logged in way more hours than I typically do on my F2P titles. It is great.
Personal Playtime: ~15 hours
Yes, you read that right. I logged 15 hours into this F2P game and can easily see myself logging in for many more. It is a battle royale title that hits all of the notes that it is going for. Whether that be the movement that requires you to have a jetpack that can be used intermittently or vehicles that allow you to traverse the field both in an offensive and defensive manner, More than anything else. There is little downtime. It allows you to get right back into the action if you ever do have a bad round. The characters are all, for the most part, balanced. That being said, the only downside that I had in terms of the characters is that it takes an insane amount of time to unlock them as a F2P player. I have 15 hours and only have 1/3 of the currency needed to unlock it. I will say that there are few games that have kept my attention for as long as this did. If you enjoy battle royale games, I expect that you have already downloaded this. If you are completely new to the genre, I could not expect a better game on the market. This comes as a clear recommendation, especially since Apex Legends Mobile was discontinued.
TLDR: I logged 15 hours into this F2P battle royale game and can see myself playing more. The gameplay features jetpack movement and vehicles, ensuring little downtime and quick re-entry into action. Characters are mostly balanced, but unlocking them as a F2P player takes a long time. It kept my attention longer than most games. If you enjoy battle royale, it's a clear recommendation, especially with Apex Legends Mobile discontinued. The ranking system is something that is sure to keep players hooked.
iOS Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/farlight-84/id1673713581
Dig Odyssey: Comic Mining
Not Many Diamonds In The Rough
Score 5.5/10
Did I enjoy it? Initially yes. It has a nice design that makes you want to enjoy it. It wore on me especially at the very end. If you know, you know.
Would I come back to it? No, there is no long term progression, and the end game grind is brutal considering that ads play after every run (these runs last only ~1 minute).
Personal Playtime: ~2 hours
This game is not bad in terms of design, mechanics, and gameplay. It's your standard fare of a mining game experience, with some great design choices that made me give it a look in the first place. You will be mining,gathering resources, and upgrading gear to make your future runs better (the standard things). However, what you will find is that the game in its current state is very rough around the edges. With some inexplicable design choices- ads playing after every run, one item that is completely useless until the end game, at which point it becomes a requirement, and an additional unnecessary grind to truly complete the game- keeps it from being an easy recommendation to relax for an hour or so. I currently cannot in good faith recommend it in its current state.
TLDR: This game has decent design, mechanics, and gameplay. It's a typical mining game with some interesting choices that caught my attention. You mine, gather resources, and upgrade gear for better runs. However, it's rough around the edges with odd design choices like frequent ads, a useless item until the end game, and an unnecessary grind. It's not an easy recommendation for a relaxing gaming session. I can't recommend it in its current state.
iOS Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dig-odyssey-cosmic-mining/id6447781004
Alchemy Dungeon
A Wonderful Mix
Score 8/10
Did I enjoy it? Yes, I havent played too many games recently in this style and it was a refreshing take on the genre.
Would I come back to it? Yes, I am someone who likes to unlock everything and even with my playtime I still have quite a few more things to unlock.
Personal Playtime: ~3 hours
This game is a different take on the merging genre in that your score is tied not to how many rounds you make it or how many enemies you defeat but, rather, the number of coins you collect/utilize. Considering you can merge coins to enemies and then kill said enemies for coins there is a surprising amount of depth to how the game works. It takes a bit of getting used to understanding how the tiles lock and how certain items interact with said tiles. However, the more you play the more you understand and use that knowledge on later runs. I cannot even begin to imagine playing it ideally with the number of possible combinations that are available to you. I’m just going to continue grinding in my ignorance. There are some UI things I would have like such as seeing how close I am to unlocking my next world in my current run (I ended one prematurely because I thought I got the unlock only to realize that it was for a character because I was not paying complete attention). I think that its amount of unlockables may stop people from making it a long term score chaser game, but these are minor issues. I would suggest you join me in this unique experience if you haven't already.
TLDR: This game offers a unique twist on the merging genre, where your score is based on the number of coins you collect and use. Merging coins with enemies adds depth to the gameplay. Understanding tile locking and item interactions takes time but enhances later runs. The game's potential combinations are vast. Some UI improvements would be helpful, like tracking progress towards unlocking new worlds. The game's abundance of unlockables may deter long-term score chasers, but these are minor issues. Join me in this unique and engaging experience if you haven't already.
iOS Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/alchemy-dungeon/id1551476344
NFL Rivals- Football Game
Its No Good
Score 5/10
Did I enjoy it? Yes, at least in the beginning but the novelty quickly wears off.
Would I come back to it? No, the grind to create a really good team is going to be absurd and will become highly pay to win in the end.
Personal Playtime: ~4 hours
This game has a lot of things going for it, playing more akin to NFL Blitz than your typical Madden clone, an interesting pass system (though not much in the run game department), and the license to use NFL players names in the game. Unfortunately, it squanders it in the pay to win focus that has come to plague most of the sports simulators on the market. The gameplay is okay in that the passing is unique because you throw the ball in “real time”. Unfortunately, nothing else in the game has the same level of polish. The run game, though insanely strong, never felt like you could get a good long run off because of the way the stamina system works. You will not be controlling the defense side of the ball (my favorite part of football), you cannot run out of the pocket in the traditional sense because your qb always is in passing mode, you only get access to 3 plays at a time seemingly at random, and there is a really weird interaction with diving for the end zone where you get i-frames for some unknown reason meaning that you only have to make it to the 5 yard line instead of the end zone because you can dive and guarantee at touchdown even as you are hit. Running a regular season is lackluster because you don't keep stats outside of the record for the regular season. Lastly, there is a heavy focus on competing against other teams,which brings the P2W component of the game full circle.
TLDR: This game offers a unique gameplay experience resembling NFL Blitz, with an interesting pass system and licensed NFL player names. However, it falls short due to a pay-to-win focus. The passing mechanics are decent, but other aspects lack polish. The stamina system hinders long runs, controlling the defense isn't possible, and the interaction with diving for the end zone is strange. The regular season lacks stat tracking, and the heavy emphasis on competing against other teams brings pay-to-win elements to the forefront.
iOS Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nfl-rivals-football-game/id1640028998
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Premium Reviews
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One Minute Reviews
Farlight 84
Shining Light For Mobile
Score 10/10
Did I enjoy it? Yes! Much more than I expected too.
Would I come back to it? Absolutely, I really want to hit top 300 on the server. This is partially the reason that I logged in way more hours than I typically do on my F2P titles. It is great.
Personal Playtime: ~15 hours
Yes, you read that right. I logged 15 hours into this F2P game and can easily see myself logging in for many more. It is a battle royale title that hits all of the notes that it is going for. Whether that be the movement that requires you to have a jetpack that can be used intermittently or vehicles that allow you to traverse the field both in an offensive and defensive manner, More than anything else. There is little downtime. It allows you to get right back into the action if you ever do have a bad round. The characters are all, for the most part, balanced. That being said, the only downside that I had in terms of the characters is that it takes an insane amount of time to unlock them as a F2P player. I have 15 hours and only have 1/3 of the currency needed to unlock it. I will say that there are few games that have kept my attention for as long as this did. If you enjoy battle royale games, I expect that you have already downloaded this. If you are completely new to the genre, I could not expect a better game on the market. This comes as a clear recommendation, especially since Apex Legends Mobile was discontinued.
TLDR: I logged 15 hours into this F2P battle royale game and can see myself playing more. The gameplay features jetpack movement and vehicles, ensuring little downtime and quick re-entry into action. Characters are mostly balanced, but unlocking them as a F2P player takes a long time. It kept my attention longer than most games. If you enjoy battle royale, it's a clear recommendation, especially with Apex Legends Mobile discontinued. The ranking system is something that is sure to keep players hooked.
iOS Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/farlight-84/id1673713581
Dig Odyssey: Comic Mining
Not Many Diamonds In The Rough
Score 5.5/10
Did I enjoy it? Initially yes. It has a nice design that makes you want to enjoy it. It wore on me especially at the very end. If you know, you know.
Would I come back to it? No, there is no long term progression, and the end game grind is brutal considering that ads play after every run (these runs last only ~1 minute).
Personal Playtime: ~2 hours
This game is not bad in terms of design, mechanics, and gameplay. It's your standard fare of a mining game experience, with some great design choices that made me give it a look in the first place. You will be mining,gathering resources, and upgrading gear to make your future runs better (the standard things). However, what you will find is that the game in its current state is very rough around the edges. With some inexplicable design choices- ads playing after every run, one item that is completely useless until the end game, at which point it becomes a requirement, and an additional unnecessary grind to truly complete the game- keeps it from being an easy recommendation to relax for an hour or so. I currently cannot in good faith recommend it in its current state.
TLDR: This game has decent design, mechanics, and gameplay. It's a typical mining game with some interesting choices that caught my attention. You mine, gather resources, and upgrade gear for better runs. However, it's rough around the edges with odd design choices like frequent ads, a useless item until the end game, and an unnecessary grind. It's not an easy recommendation for a relaxing gaming session. I can't recommend it in its current state.
iOS Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dig-odyssey-cosmic-mining/id6447781004
Alchemy Dungeon
A Wonderful Mix
Score 8/10
Did I enjoy it? Yes, I havent played too many games recently in this style and it was a refreshing take on the genre.
Would I come back to it? Yes, I am someone who likes to unlock everything and even with my playtime I still have quite a few more things to unlock.
Personal Playtime: ~3 hours
This game is a different take on the merging genre in that your score is tied not to how many rounds you make it or how many enemies you defeat but, rather, the number of coins you collect/utilize. Considering you can merge coins to enemies and then kill said enemies for coins there is a surprising amount of depth to how the game works. It takes a bit of getting used to understanding how the tiles lock and how certain items interact with said tiles. However, the more you play the more you understand and use that knowledge on later runs. I cannot even begin to imagine playing it ideally with the number of possible combinations that are available to you. I’m just going to continue grinding in my ignorance. There are some UI things I would have like such as seeing how close I am to unlocking my next world in my current run (I ended one prematurely because I thought I got the unlock only to realize that it was for a character because I was not paying complete attention). I think that its amount of unlockables may stop people from making it a long term score chaser game, but these are minor issues. I would suggest you join me in this unique experience if you haven't already.
TLDR: This game offers a unique twist on the merging genre, where your score is based on the number of coins you collect and use. Merging coins with enemies adds depth to the gameplay. Understanding tile locking and item interactions takes time but enhances later runs. The game's potential combinations are vast. Some UI improvements would be helpful, like tracking progress towards unlocking new worlds. The game's abundance of unlockables may deter long-term score chasers, but these are minor issues. Join me in this unique and engaging experience if you haven't already.
iOS Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/alchemy-dungeon/id1551476344
NFL Rivals- Football Game
Its No Good
Score 5/10
Did I enjoy it? Yes, at least in the beginning but the novelty quickly wears off.
Would I come back to it? No, the grind to create a really good team is going to be absurd and will become highly pay to win in the end.
Personal Playtime: ~4 hours
This game has a lot of things going for it, playing more akin to NFL Blitz than your typical Madden clone, an interesting pass system (though not much in the run game department), and the license to use NFL players names in the game. Unfortunately, it squanders it in the pay to win focus that has come to plague most of the sports simulators on the market. The gameplay is okay in that the passing is unique because you throw the ball in “real time”. Unfortunately, nothing else in the game has the same level of polish. The run game, though insanely strong, never felt like you could get a good long run off because of the way the stamina system works. You will not be controlling the defense side of the ball (my favorite part of football), you cannot run out of the pocket in the traditional sense because your qb always is in passing mode, you only get access to 3 plays at a time seemingly at random, and there is a really weird interaction with diving for the end zone where you get i-frames for some unknown reason meaning that you only have to make it to the 5 yard line instead of the end zone because you can dive and guarantee at touchdown even as you are hit. Running a regular season is lackluster because you don't keep stats outside of the record for the regular season. Lastly, there is a heavy focus on competing against other teams,which brings the P2W component of the game full circle.
TLDR: This game offers a unique gameplay experience resembling NFL Blitz, with an interesting pass system and licensed NFL player names. However, it falls short due to a pay-to-win focus. The passing mechanics are decent, but other aspects lack polish. The stamina system hinders long runs, controlling the defense isn't possible, and the interaction with diving for the end zone is strange. The regular season lacks stat tracking, and the heavy emphasis on competing against other teams brings pay-to-win elements to the forefront.
iOS Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nfl-rivals-football-game/id1640028998
2023.06.05 03:02 GamingInTheMoment Reviews Released Week of 5.28.23-6.4.23
I wanted to release my weekly round-up of reviews! I hope you guys enjoy it and are able to find something you like. If there is a game you would like to see a review of or would like to see get more attention, let me know! Check out the channel (found on my reddit profile) where I post video reviews of these games if you are at all interested (cannot link because it will be auto deleted). I did not find any big premium games this week so nothing on that front.
Remember that my 1 minute reviews are F2P Titles.
Premium Reviews
-NONE-
One Minute Reviews
Farlight 84
Shining Light For Mobile
Score 10/10
Did I enjoy it? Yes! Much more than I expected too.
Would I come back to it? Absolutely, I really want to hit top 300 on the server. This is partially the reason that I logged in way more hours than I typically do on my F2P titles. It is great.
Personal Playtime: ~15 hours
Yes, you read that right. I logged 15 hours into this F2P game and can easily see myself logging in for many more. It is a battle royale title that hits all of the notes that it is going for. Whether that be the movement that requires you to have a jetpack that can be used intermittently or vehicles that allow you to traverse the field both in an offensive and defensive manner, More than anything else. There is little downtime. It allows you to get right back into the action if you ever do have a bad round. The characters are all, for the most part, balanced. That being said, the only downside that I had in terms of the characters is that it takes an insane amount of time to unlock them as a F2P player. I have 15 hours and only have 1/3 of the currency needed to unlock it. I will say that there are few games that have kept my attention for as long as this did. If you enjoy battle royale games, I expect that you have already downloaded this. If you are completely new to the genre, I could not expect a better game on the market. This comes as a clear recommendation, especially since Apex Legends Mobile was discontinued.
TLDR: I logged 15 hours into this F2P battle royale game and can see myself playing more. The gameplay features jetpack movement and vehicles, ensuring little downtime and quick re-entry into action. Characters are mostly balanced, but unlocking them as a F2P player takes a long time. It kept my attention longer than most games. If you enjoy battle royale, it's a clear recommendation, especially with Apex Legends Mobile discontinued. The ranking system is something that is sure to keep players hooked.
Google Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.miraclegames.farlight84&hl=en_US&gl=US
iOS Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/farlight-84/id1673713581
Dig Odyssey: Comic Mining
Not Many Diamonds In The Rough
Score 5.5/10
Did I enjoy it? Initially yes. It has a nice design that makes you want to enjoy it. It wore on me especially at the very end. If you know, you know.
Would I come back to it? No, there is no long term progression, and the end game grind is brutal considering that ads play after every run (these runs last only ~1 minute).
Personal Playtime: ~2 hours
This game is not bad in terms of design, mechanics, and gameplay. It's your standard fare of a mining game experience, with some great design choices that made me give it a look in the first place. You will be mining,gathering resources, and upgrading gear to make your future runs better (the standard things). However, what you will find is that the game in its current state is very rough around the edges. With some inexplicable design choices- ads playing after every run, one item that is completely useless until the end game, at which point it becomes a requirement, and an additional unnecessary grind to truly complete the game- keeps it from being an easy recommendation to relax for an hour or so. I currently cannot in good faith recommend it in its current state.
TLDR: This game has decent design, mechanics, and gameplay. It's a typical mining game with some interesting choices that caught my attention. You mine, gather resources, and upgrade gear for better runs. However, it's rough around the edges with odd design choices like frequent ads, a useless item until the end game, and an unnecessary grind. It's not an easy recommendation for a relaxing gaming session. I can't recommend it in its current state.
Google Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.doublereality.digodyssey
iOS Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dig-odyssey-cosmic-mining/id6447781004
Alchemy Dungeon
A Wonderful Mix
Score 8/10
Did I enjoy it? Yes, I havent played too many games recently in this style and it was a refreshing take on the genre.
Would I come back to it? Yes, I am someone who likes to unlock everything and even with my playtime I still have quite a few more things to unlock.
Personal Playtime: ~3 hours
This game is a different take on the merging genre in that your score is tied not to how many rounds you make it or how many enemies you defeat but, rather, the number of coins you collect/utilize. Considering you can merge coins to enemies and then kill said enemies for coins there is a surprising amount of depth to how the game works. It takes a bit of getting used to understanding how the tiles lock and how certain items interact with said tiles. However, the more you play the more you understand and use that knowledge on later runs. I cannot even begin to imagine playing it ideally with the number of possible combinations that are available to you. I’m just going to continue grinding in my ignorance. There are some UI things I would have like such as seeing how close I am to unlocking my next world in my current run (I ended one prematurely because I thought I got the unlock only to realize that it was for a character because I was not paying complete attention). I think that its amount of unlockables may stop people from making it a long term score chaser game, but these are minor issues. I would suggest you join me in this unique experience if you haven't already.
TLDR: This game offers a unique twist on the merging genre, where your score is based on the number of coins you collect and use. Merging coins with enemies adds depth to the gameplay. Understanding tile locking and item interactions takes time but enhances later runs. The game's potential combinations are vast. Some UI improvements would be helpful, like tracking progress towards unlocking new worlds. The game's abundance of unlockables may deter long-term score chasers, but these are minor issues. Join me in this unique and engaging experience if you haven't already.
Google Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.The717pixels.alchemyDungeon&hl=en_US&gl=US
iOS Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/alchemy-dungeon/id1551476344
NFL Rivals- Football Game
Its No Good
Score 5/10
Did I enjoy it? Yes, at least in the beginning but the novelty quickly wears off.
Would I come back to it? No, the grind to create a really good team is going to be absurd and will become highly pay to win in the end.
Personal Playtime: ~4 hours
This game has a lot of things going for it, playing more akin to NFL Blitz than your typical Madden clone, an interesting pass system (though not much in the run game department), and the license to use NFL players names in the game. Unfortunately, it squanders it in the pay to win focus that has come to plague most of the sports simulators on the market. The gameplay is okay in that the passing is unique because you throw the ball in “real time”. Unfortunately, nothing else in the game has the same level of polish. The run game, though insanely strong, never felt like you could get a good long run off because of the way the stamina system works. You will not be controlling the defense side of the ball (my favorite part of football), you cannot run out of the pocket in the traditional sense because your qb always is in passing mode, you only get access to 3 plays at a time seemingly at random, and there is a really weird interaction with diving for the end zone where you get i-frames for some unknown reason meaning that you only have to make it to the 5 yard line instead of the end zone because you can dive and guarantee at touchdown even as you are hit. Running a regular season is lackluster because you don't keep stats outside of the record for the regular season. Lastly, there is a heavy focus on competing against other teams,which brings the P2W component of the game full circle.
TLDR: This game offers a unique gameplay experience resembling NFL Blitz, with an interesting pass system and licensed NFL player names. However, it falls short due to a pay-to-win focus. The passing mechanics are decent, but other aspects lack polish. The stamina system hinders long runs, controlling the defense isn't possible, and the interaction with diving for the end zone is strange. The regular season lacks stat tracking, and the heavy emphasis on competing against other teams brings pay-to-win elements to the forefront.
Google Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mythical.superteam&hl=en_US&gl=US
iOS Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nfl-rivals-football-game/id1640028998
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Premium Reviews
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One Minute Reviews
Farlight 84
Shining Light For Mobile
Score 10/10
Did I enjoy it? Yes! Much more than I expected too.
Would I come back to it? Absolutely, I really want to hit top 300 on the server. This is partially the reason that I logged in way more hours than I typically do on my F2P titles. It is great.
Personal Playtime: ~15 hours
Yes, you read that right. I logged 15 hours into this F2P game and can easily see myself logging in for many more. It is a battle royale title that hits all of the notes that it is going for. Whether that be the movement that requires you to have a jetpack that can be used intermittently or vehicles that allow you to traverse the field both in an offensive and defensive manner, More than anything else. There is little downtime. It allows you to get right back into the action if you ever do have a bad round. The characters are all, for the most part, balanced. That being said, the only downside that I had in terms of the characters is that it takes an insane amount of time to unlock them as a F2P player. I have 15 hours and only have 1/3 of the currency needed to unlock it. I will say that there are few games that have kept my attention for as long as this did. If you enjoy battle royale games, I expect that you have already downloaded this. If you are completely new to the genre, I could not expect a better game on the market. This comes as a clear recommendation, especially since Apex Legends Mobile was discontinued.
TLDR: I logged 15 hours into this F2P battle royale game and can see myself playing more. The gameplay features jetpack movement and vehicles, ensuring little downtime and quick re-entry into action. Characters are mostly balanced, but unlocking them as a F2P player takes a long time. It kept my attention longer than most games. If you enjoy battle royale, it's a clear recommendation, especially with Apex Legends Mobile discontinued. The ranking system is something that is sure to keep players hooked.
Google Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.miraclegames.farlight84&hl=en_US&gl=US
iOS Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/farlight-84/id1673713581
Dig Odyssey: Comic Mining
Not Many Diamonds In The Rough
Score 5.5/10
Did I enjoy it? Initially yes. It has a nice design that makes you want to enjoy it. It wore on me especially at the very end. If you know, you know.
Would I come back to it? No, there is no long term progression, and the end game grind is brutal considering that ads play after every run (these runs last only ~1 minute).
Personal Playtime: ~2 hours
This game is not bad in terms of design, mechanics, and gameplay. It's your standard fare of a mining game experience, with some great design choices that made me give it a look in the first place. You will be mining,gathering resources, and upgrading gear to make your future runs better (the standard things). However, what you will find is that the game in its current state is very rough around the edges. With some inexplicable design choices- ads playing after every run, one item that is completely useless until the end game, at which point it becomes a requirement, and an additional unnecessary grind to truly complete the game- keeps it from being an easy recommendation to relax for an hour or so. I currently cannot in good faith recommend it in its current state.
TLDR: This game has decent design, mechanics, and gameplay. It's a typical mining game with some interesting choices that caught my attention. You mine, gather resources, and upgrade gear for better runs. However, it's rough around the edges with odd design choices like frequent ads, a useless item until the end game, and an unnecessary grind. It's not an easy recommendation for a relaxing gaming session. I can't recommend it in its current state.
Google Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.doublereality.digodyssey
iOS Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dig-odyssey-cosmic-mining/id6447781004
Alchemy Dungeon
A Wonderful Mix
Score 8/10
Did I enjoy it? Yes, I havent played too many games recently in this style and it was a refreshing take on the genre.
Would I come back to it? Yes, I am someone who likes to unlock everything and even with my playtime I still have quite a few more things to unlock.
Personal Playtime: ~3 hours
This game is a different take on the merging genre in that your score is tied not to how many rounds you make it or how many enemies you defeat but, rather, the number of coins you collect/utilize. Considering you can merge coins to enemies and then kill said enemies for coins there is a surprising amount of depth to how the game works. It takes a bit of getting used to understanding how the tiles lock and how certain items interact with said tiles. However, the more you play the more you understand and use that knowledge on later runs. I cannot even begin to imagine playing it ideally with the number of possible combinations that are available to you. I’m just going to continue grinding in my ignorance. There are some UI things I would have like such as seeing how close I am to unlocking my next world in my current run (I ended one prematurely because I thought I got the unlock only to realize that it was for a character because I was not paying complete attention). I think that its amount of unlockables may stop people from making it a long term score chaser game, but these are minor issues. I would suggest you join me in this unique experience if you haven't already.
TLDR: This game offers a unique twist on the merging genre, where your score is based on the number of coins you collect and use. Merging coins with enemies adds depth to the gameplay. Understanding tile locking and item interactions takes time but enhances later runs. The game's potential combinations are vast. Some UI improvements would be helpful, like tracking progress towards unlocking new worlds. The game's abundance of unlockables may deter long-term score chasers, but these are minor issues. Join me in this unique and engaging experience if you haven't already.
Google Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.The717pixels.alchemyDungeon&hl=en_US&gl=US
iOS Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/alchemy-dungeon/id1551476344
NFL Rivals- Football Game
Its No Good
Score 5/10
Did I enjoy it? Yes, at least in the beginning but the novelty quickly wears off.
Would I come back to it? No, the grind to create a really good team is going to be absurd and will become highly pay to win in the end.
Personal Playtime: ~4 hours
This game has a lot of things going for it, playing more akin to NFL Blitz than your typical Madden clone, an interesting pass system (though not much in the run game department), and the license to use NFL players names in the game. Unfortunately, it squanders it in the pay to win focus that has come to plague most of the sports simulators on the market. The gameplay is okay in that the passing is unique because you throw the ball in “real time”. Unfortunately, nothing else in the game has the same level of polish. The run game, though insanely strong, never felt like you could get a good long run off because of the way the stamina system works. You will not be controlling the defense side of the ball (my favorite part of football), you cannot run out of the pocket in the traditional sense because your qb always is in passing mode, you only get access to 3 plays at a time seemingly at random, and there is a really weird interaction with diving for the end zone where you get i-frames for some unknown reason meaning that you only have to make it to the 5 yard line instead of the end zone because you can dive and guarantee at touchdown even as you are hit. Running a regular season is lackluster because you don't keep stats outside of the record for the regular season. Lastly, there is a heavy focus on competing against other teams,which brings the P2W component of the game full circle.
TLDR: This game offers a unique gameplay experience resembling NFL Blitz, with an interesting pass system and licensed NFL player names. However, it falls short due to a pay-to-win focus. The passing mechanics are decent, but other aspects lack polish. The stamina system hinders long runs, controlling the defense isn't possible, and the interaction with diving for the end zone is strange. The regular season lacks stat tracking, and the heavy emphasis on competing against other teams brings pay-to-win elements to the forefront.
Google Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mythical.superteam&hl=en_US&gl=US
iOS Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nfl-rivals-football-game/id1640028998
2023.06.05 03:01 GamingInTheMoment Reviews Released Week of 5.28.23-6.4.23
I wanted to release my weekly round-up of reviews! I hope you guys enjoy it and are able to find something you like. If there is a game you would like to see a review of or would like to see get more attention, let me know! Check out the channel (found on my reddit profile) where I post video reviews of these games if you are at all interested (cannot link because it will be auto deleted). I did not find any big premium games this week so nothing on that front.
Remember that my 1 minute reviews are F2P Titles.
Premium Reviews
-NONE-
One Minute Reviews
Farlight 84
Shining Light For Mobile
Score 10/10
Did I enjoy it? Yes! Much more than I expected too.
Would I come back to it? Absolutely, I really want to hit top 300 on the server. This is partially the reason that I logged in way more hours than I typically do on my F2P titles. It is great.
Personal Playtime: ~15 hours
Yes, you read that right. I logged 15 hours into this F2P game and can easily see myself logging in for many more. It is a battle royale title that hits all of the notes that it is going for. Whether that be the movement that requires you to have a jetpack that can be used intermittently or vehicles that allow you to traverse the field both in an offensive and defensive manner, More than anything else. There is little downtime. It allows you to get right back into the action if you ever do have a bad round. The characters are all, for the most part, balanced. That being said, the only downside that I had in terms of the characters is that it takes an insane amount of time to unlock them as a F2P player. I have 15 hours and only have 1/3 of the currency needed to unlock it. I will say that there are few games that have kept my attention for as long as this did. If you enjoy battle royale games, I expect that you have already downloaded this. If you are completely new to the genre, I could not expect a better game on the market. This comes as a clear recommendation, especially since Apex Legends Mobile was discontinued.
TLDR: I logged 15 hours into this F2P battle royale game and can see myself playing more. The gameplay features jetpack movement and vehicles, ensuring little downtime and quick re-entry into action. Characters are mostly balanced, but unlocking them as a F2P player takes a long time. It kept my attention longer than most games. If you enjoy battle royale, it's a clear recommendation, especially with Apex Legends Mobile discontinued. The ranking system is something that is sure to keep players hooked.
Google Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.miraclegames.farlight84&hl=en_US&gl=
Dig Odyssey: Comic Mining
Not Many Diamonds In The Rough
Score 5.5/10
Did I enjoy it? Initially yes. It has a nice design that makes you want to enjoy it. It wore on me especially at the very end. If you know, you know.
Would I come back to it? No, there is no long term progression, and the end game grind is brutal considering that ads play after every run (these runs last only ~1 minute).
Personal Playtime: ~2 hours
This game is not bad in terms of design, mechanics, and gameplay. It's your standard fare of a mining game experience, with some great design choices that made me give it a look in the first place. You will be mining,gathering resources, and upgrading gear to make your future runs better (the standard things). However, what you will find is that the game in its current state is very rough around the edges. With some inexplicable design choices- ads playing after every run, one item that is completely useless until the end game, at which point it becomes a requirement, and an additional unnecessary grind to truly complete the game- keeps it from being an easy recommendation to relax for an hour or so. I currently cannot in good faith recommend it in its current state.
TLDR: This game has decent design, mechanics, and gameplay. It's a typical mining game with some interesting choices that caught my attention. You mine, gather resources, and upgrade gear for better runs. However, it's rough around the edges with odd design choices like frequent ads, a useless item until the end game, and an unnecessary grind. It's not an easy recommendation for a relaxing gaming session. I can't recommend it in its current state.
Google Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.doublereality.digodyssey
Alchemy Dungeon
A Wonderful Mix
Score 8/10
Did I enjoy it? Yes, I havent played too many games recently in this style and it was a refreshing take on the genre.
Would I come back to it? Yes, I am someone who likes to unlock everything and even with my playtime I still have quite a few more things to unlock.
Personal Playtime: ~3 hours
This game is a different take on the merging genre in that your score is tied not to how many rounds you make it or how many enemies you defeat but, rather, the number of coins you collect/utilize. Considering you can merge coins to enemies and then kill said enemies for coins there is a surprising amount of depth to how the game works. It takes a bit of getting used to understanding how the tiles lock and how certain items interact with said tiles. However, the more you play the more you understand and use that knowledge on later runs. I cannot even begin to imagine playing it ideally with the number of possible combinations that are available to you. I’m just going to continue grinding in my ignorance. There are some UI things I would have like such as seeing how close I am to unlocking my next world in my current run (I ended one prematurely because I thought I got the unlock only to realize that it was for a character because I was not paying complete attention). I think that its amount of unlockables may stop people from making it a long term score chaser game, but these are minor issues. I would suggest you join me in this unique experience if you haven't already.
TLDR: This game offers a unique twist on the merging genre, where your score is based on the number of coins you collect and use. Merging coins with enemies adds depth to the gameplay. Understanding tile locking and item interactions takes time but enhances later runs. The game's potential combinations are vast. Some UI improvements would be helpful, like tracking progress towards unlocking new worlds. The game's abundance of unlockables may deter long-term score chasers, but these are minor issues. Join me in this unique and engaging experience if you haven't already.
Google Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.The717pixels.alchemyDungeon&hl=en_US&gl=US
NFL Rivals- Football Game
Its No Good
Score 5/10
Did I enjoy it? Yes, at least in the beginning but the novelty quickly wears off.
Would I come back to it? No, the grind to create a really good team is going to be absurd and will become highly pay to win in the end.
Personal Playtime: ~4 hours
This game has a lot of things going for it, playing more akin to NFL Blitz than your typical Madden clone, an interesting pass system (though not much in the run game department), and the license to use NFL players names in the game. Unfortunately, it squanders it in the pay to win focus that has come to plague most of the sports simulators on the market. The gameplay is okay in that the passing is unique because you throw the ball in “real time”. Unfortunately, nothing else in the game has the same level of polish. The run game, though insanely strong, never felt like you could get a good long run off because of the way the stamina system works. You will not be controlling the defense side of the ball (my favorite part of football), you cannot run out of the pocket in the traditional sense because your qb always is in passing mode, you only get access to 3 plays at a time seemingly at random, and there is a really weird interaction with diving for the end zone where you get i-frames for some unknown reason meaning that you only have to make it to the 5 yard line instead of the end zone because you can dive and guarantee at touchdown even as you are hit. Running a regular season is lackluster because you don't keep stats outside of the record for the regular season. Lastly, there is a heavy focus on competing against other teams,which brings the P2W component of the game full circle.
TLDR: This game offers a unique gameplay experience resembling NFL Blitz, with an interesting pass system and licensed NFL player names. However, it falls short due to a pay-to-win focus. The passing mechanics are decent, but other aspects lack polish. The stamina system hinders long runs, controlling the defense isn't possible, and the interaction with diving for the end zone is strange. The regular season lacks stat tracking, and the heavy emphasis on competing against other teams brings pay-to-win elements to the forefront.
iOS Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nfl-rivals-football-game/id1640028998
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Remember that my 1 minute reviews are F2P Titles.
Premium Reviews
-NONE-
One Minute Reviews
Farlight 84
Shining Light For Mobile
Score 10/10
Did I enjoy it? Yes! Much more than I expected too.
Would I come back to it? Absolutely, I really want to hit top 300 on the server. This is partially the reason that I logged in way more hours than I typically do on my F2P titles. It is great.
Personal Playtime: ~15 hours
Yes, you read that right. I logged 15 hours into this F2P game and can easily see myself logging in for many more. It is a battle royale title that hits all of the notes that it is going for. Whether that be the movement that requires you to have a jetpack that can be used intermittently or vehicles that allow you to traverse the field both in an offensive and defensive manner, More than anything else. There is little downtime. It allows you to get right back into the action if you ever do have a bad round. The characters are all, for the most part, balanced. That being said, the only downside that I had in terms of the characters is that it takes an insane amount of time to unlock them as a F2P player. I have 15 hours and only have 1/3 of the currency needed to unlock it. I will say that there are few games that have kept my attention for as long as this did. If you enjoy battle royale games, I expect that you have already downloaded this. If you are completely new to the genre, I could not expect a better game on the market. This comes as a clear recommendation, especially since Apex Legends Mobile was discontinued.
TLDR: I logged 15 hours into this F2P battle royale game and can see myself playing more. The gameplay features jetpack movement and vehicles, ensuring little downtime and quick re-entry into action. Characters are mostly balanced, but unlocking them as a F2P player takes a long time. It kept my attention longer than most games. If you enjoy battle royale, it's a clear recommendation, especially with Apex Legends Mobile discontinued. The ranking system is something that is sure to keep players hooked.
Google Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.miraclegames.farlight84&hl=en_US&gl=
Dig Odyssey: Comic Mining
Not Many Diamonds In The Rough
Score 5.5/10
Did I enjoy it? Initially yes. It has a nice design that makes you want to enjoy it. It wore on me especially at the very end. If you know, you know.
Would I come back to it? No, there is no long term progression, and the end game grind is brutal considering that ads play after every run (these runs last only ~1 minute).
Personal Playtime: ~2 hours
This game is not bad in terms of design, mechanics, and gameplay. It's your standard fare of a mining game experience, with some great design choices that made me give it a look in the first place. You will be mining,gathering resources, and upgrading gear to make your future runs better (the standard things). However, what you will find is that the game in its current state is very rough around the edges. With some inexplicable design choices- ads playing after every run, one item that is completely useless until the end game, at which point it becomes a requirement, and an additional unnecessary grind to truly complete the game- keeps it from being an easy recommendation to relax for an hour or so. I currently cannot in good faith recommend it in its current state.
TLDR: This game has decent design, mechanics, and gameplay. It's a typical mining game with some interesting choices that caught my attention. You mine, gather resources, and upgrade gear for better runs. However, it's rough around the edges with odd design choices like frequent ads, a useless item until the end game, and an unnecessary grind. It's not an easy recommendation for a relaxing gaming session. I can't recommend it in its current state.
Google Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.doublereality.digodyssey
Alchemy Dungeon
A Wonderful Mix
Score 8/10
Did I enjoy it? Yes, I havent played too many games recently in this style and it was a refreshing take on the genre.
Would I come back to it? Yes, I am someone who likes to unlock everything and even with my playtime I still have quite a few more things to unlock.
Personal Playtime: ~3 hours
This game is a different take on the merging genre in that your score is tied not to how many rounds you make it or how many enemies you defeat but, rather, the number of coins you collect/utilize. Considering you can merge coins to enemies and then kill said enemies for coins there is a surprising amount of depth to how the game works. It takes a bit of getting used to understanding how the tiles lock and how certain items interact with said tiles. However, the more you play the more you understand and use that knowledge on later runs. I cannot even begin to imagine playing it ideally with the number of possible combinations that are available to you. I’m just going to continue grinding in my ignorance. There are some UI things I would have like such as seeing how close I am to unlocking my next world in my current run (I ended one prematurely because I thought I got the unlock only to realize that it was for a character because I was not paying complete attention). I think that its amount of unlockables may stop people from making it a long term score chaser game, but these are minor issues. I would suggest you join me in this unique experience if you haven't already.
TLDR: This game offers a unique twist on the merging genre, where your score is based on the number of coins you collect and use. Merging coins with enemies adds depth to the gameplay. Understanding tile locking and item interactions takes time but enhances later runs. The game's potential combinations are vast. Some UI improvements would be helpful, like tracking progress towards unlocking new worlds. The game's abundance of unlockables may deter long-term score chasers, but these are minor issues. Join me in this unique and engaging experience if you haven't already.
Google Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.The717pixels.alchemyDungeon&hl=en_US&gl=US
NFL Rivals- Football Game
Its No Good
Score 5/10
Did I enjoy it? Yes, at least in the beginning but the novelty quickly wears off.
Would I come back to it? No, the grind to create a really good team is going to be absurd and will become highly pay to win in the end.
Personal Playtime: ~4 hours
This game has a lot of things going for it, playing more akin to NFL Blitz than your typical Madden clone, an interesting pass system (though not much in the run game department), and the license to use NFL players names in the game. Unfortunately, it squanders it in the pay to win focus that has come to plague most of the sports simulators on the market. The gameplay is okay in that the passing is unique because you throw the ball in “real time”. Unfortunately, nothing else in the game has the same level of polish. The run game, though insanely strong, never felt like you could get a good long run off because of the way the stamina system works. You will not be controlling the defense side of the ball (my favorite part of football), you cannot run out of the pocket in the traditional sense because your qb always is in passing mode, you only get access to 3 plays at a time seemingly at random, and there is a really weird interaction with diving for the end zone where you get i-frames for some unknown reason meaning that you only have to make it to the 5 yard line instead of the end zone because you can dive and guarantee at touchdown even as you are hit. Running a regular season is lackluster because you don't keep stats outside of the record for the regular season. Lastly, there is a heavy focus on competing against other teams,which brings the P2W component of the game full circle.
TLDR: This game offers a unique gameplay experience resembling NFL Blitz, with an interesting pass system and licensed NFL player names. However, it falls short due to a pay-to-win focus. The passing mechanics are decent, but other aspects lack polish. The stamina system hinders long runs, controlling the defense isn't possible, and the interaction with diving for the end zone is strange. The regular season lacks stat tracking, and the heavy emphasis on competing against other teams brings pay-to-win elements to the forefront.
iOS Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nfl-rivals-football-game/id1640028998
2023.06.05 02:38 _Triple_ [STORE] 900+ KNIVES/GLOVES/SKINS, 50.000$+ INVENTORY. M9 Fade, M4 Poseidon, BFK Freehand, Crimson Kimono, Nomad Fade, Skeleton, Kara Lore, Bayo Autotronic, AWP Fade, Kara Damas, BFK Ultra, Kara Freehand, Kara Bright, M9 Damas, Omega, Tiger Strike, Flip MF, Bayo Tiger, Deagle Blaze, Talon & More
Everything in my inventory is up for trade. The most valuable items are listed here, the rest you can find in My Inventory
Feel free to Add Me or even better send a Trade Offer. Open for any suggestions: upgrades, downgrades / knives, gloves, skins / stickers, patterns, floats.
All Buyouts are listed in cash value.
KNIVES
★ Butterfly Knife Freehand FN #1, B/O: $2500
★ Butterfly Knife Ultraviolet FT, B/O: $822
★ Butterfly Knife Scorched FT, B/O: $616
⎯★ Bayonet Tiger Tooth MW #1, B/O: $1300
★ Bayonet Autotronic FN, B/O: $1050
★ Bayonet Tiger Tooth MW, B/O: $629
★ Bayonet Bright Water FT, B/O: $326
★ Bayonet Safari Mesh BS, B/O: $233
⎯★ Karambit Lore FT, B/O: $1110
★ Karambit Damascus Steel FT, B/O: $840
★ Karambit Freehand MW, B/O: $784
★ Karambit Bright Water MW, B/O: $759
⎯★ M9 Bayonet Fade FN, B/O: $1801
★ M9 Bayonet Fade FN, B/O: $1801
★ M9 Bayonet Damascus Steel FN, B/O: $751
⎯★ Nomad Knife Fade FN, B/O: $1156
★ Nomad Knife Slaughter MW, B/O: $544
★ Nomad Knife Blue Steel WW, B/O: $318
⎯★ Flip Knife Marble Fade FN, B/O: $646
★ Flip Knife Doppler (Phase 4) FN, B/O: $574
★ Flip Knife Gamma Doppler (Phase 1) MW, B/O: $552
★ Flip Knife Case Hardened FT, B/O: $257
★ Flip Knife Freehand FT, B/O: $255
★ StatTrak™ Flip Knife Bright Water FN, B/O: $287
⎯★ Huntsman Knife Lore FN, B/O: $461
★ Huntsman Knife Gamma Doppler (Phase 4) FN, B/O: $436
★ Huntsman Knife Doppler (Phase 3) FN, B/O: $353
★ Huntsman Knife Autotronic FT, B/O: $212
★ Huntsman Knife Bright Water FT, B/O: $129
★ Huntsman Knife Forest DDPAT MW, B/O: $129
★ Huntsman Knife Forest DDPAT BS, B/O: $123
★ StatTrak™ Huntsman Knife Rust Coat BS, B/O: $127
⎯★ Bowie Knife Gamma Doppler (Phase 2) FN, B/O: $375
★ Bowie Knife Gamma Doppler (Phase 1) FN, B/O: $363
★ Bowie Knife Tiger Tooth FN, B/O: $269
★ Bowie Knife Crimson Web WW, B/O: $192
★ Bowie Knife Bright Water FN, B/O: $159
★ Bowie Knife Ultraviolet FT, B/O: $126
⎯★ Stiletto Knife Slaughter FN, B/O: $616
★ Stiletto Knife Crimson Web FT, B/O: $412
★ StatTrak™ Stiletto Knife Night Stripe FT, B/O: $227
⎯★ Falchion Knife Lore FT, B/O: $214
★ Falchion Knife Autotronic FT, B/O: $192
★ Falchion Knife Scorched WW, B/O: $105
⎯★ Survival Knife Crimson Web BS, B/O: $216
★ Survival Knife Case Hardened FT, B/O: $198
★ Survival Knife Scorched FT, B/O: $111
⎯★ Shadow Daggers Fade FN, B/O: $368
★ Shadow Daggers Doppler (Phase 3) FN, B/O: $228
★ Shadow Daggers, B/O: $201
★ Shadow Daggers Damascus Steel FT, B/O: $108
★ Shadow Daggers Ultraviolet FT, B/O: $105
★ Shadow Daggers Black Laminate FT, B/O: $99
★ Shadow Daggers Forest DDPAT FT, B/O: $85
⎯★ Gut Knife Doppler (Sapphire) MW #1, B/O: $1700
★ Gut Knife Gamma Doppler (Phase 1) FN, B/O: $223
★ Gut Knife Marble Fade FN, B/O: $203
★ Gut Knife Doppler (Phase 2) FN, B/O: $191
★ Gut Knife Case Hardened BS, B/O: $127
⎯★ Navaja Knife Doppler (Phase 4) FN, B/O: $199
★ Navaja Knife Doppler (Phase 4) FN, B/O: $199
★ Navaja Knife, B/O: $138
★ Navaja Knife Damascus Steel FN, B/O: $111
⎯★ Classic Knife Urban Masked FT, B/O: $146
★ StatTrak™ Classic Knife Stained BS, B/O: $168
⎯★ Ursus Knife Doppler (Phase 3) FN, B/O: $476
★ Ursus Knife, B/O: $375
⎯★ Skeleton Knife, B/O: $1137
★ Talon Knife, B/O: $608
★ Paracord Knife, B/O: $305
★ Survival Knife Forest DDPAT FT, B/O: $97
GLOVES
★ Moto Gloves Transport MW, B/O: $204
★ Moto Gloves Polygon BS, B/O: $142
★ Moto Gloves Blood Pressure BS, B/O: $84
★ Moto Gloves Blood Pressure BS, B/O: $84
★ Moto Gloves 3rd Commando Company BS, B/O: $63
★ Moto Gloves 3rd Commando Company BS, B/O: $63
⎯★ Specialist Gloves Crimson Kimono WW, B/O: $1215
★ Specialist Gloves Tiger Strike FT, B/O: $672
★ Specialist Gloves Lt. Commander FT, B/O: $305
★ Specialist Gloves Lt. Commander BS, B/O: $140
★ Specialist Gloves Crimson Web BS, B/O: $137
★ Specialist Gloves Buckshot FT, B/O: $75
⎯★ Driver Gloves Crimson Weave FT, B/O: $359
★ Driver Gloves Imperial Plaid BS, B/O: $229
★ Driver Gloves Overtake BS, B/O: $77
★ Driver Gloves Racing Green FT, B/O: $48
⎯★ Sport Gloves Omega FT, B/O: $739
★ Sport Gloves Amphibious BS #2, B/O: $733
★ Sport Gloves Arid BS, B/O: $292
⎯★ Hand Wraps Giraffe MW, B/O: $212
★ Hand Wraps Leather FT, B/O: $160
★ Hand Wraps Desert Shamagh MW, B/O: $101
⎯★ Broken Fang Gloves Yellow-banded MW, B/O: $185
★ Broken Fang Gloves Needle Point FT, B/O: $67
★ Broken Fang Gloves Needle Point WW, B/O: $59
⎯★ Hydra Gloves Case Hardened BS, B/O: $65
★ Hydra Gloves Emerald FT, B/O: $65
★ Hydra Gloves Emerald BS, B/O: $62
WEAPONS
AK-47 Case Hardened BS, B/O: $130
AK-47 Bloodsport MW, B/O: $79
AK-47 Fuel Injector BS, B/O: $76
AK-47 Fuel Injector BS, B/O: $76
AK-47 Bloodsport FT, B/O: $70
AK-47 Neon Rider MW, B/O: $60
StatTrak™ AK-47 Aquamarine Revenge FT, B/O: $72
⎯AWP Fade FN, B/O: $1039
AWP Asiimov FT, B/O: $139
AWP Asiimov FT, B/O: $139
AWP Wildfire MW, B/O: $95
AWP BOOM MW, B/O: $93
AWP BOOM MW, B/O: $93
AWP Duality FN, B/O: $81
AWP Asiimov BS, B/O: $79
AWP Asiimov BS, B/O: $79
AWP Chromatic Aberration FN, B/O: $60
StatTrak™ AWP Hyper Beast FT, B/O: $68
StatTrak™ AWP Hyper Beast FT, B/O: $68
StatTrak™ AWP Electric Hive FT, B/O: $55
⎯Desert Eagle Blaze FN, B/O: $623
Desert Eagle Emerald Jörmungandr FN, B/O: $241
Desert Eagle Cobalt Disruption FN, B/O: $81
Desert Eagle Cobalt Disruption FN, B/O: $81
Desert Eagle Cobalt Disruption FN, B/O: $81
Desert Eagle Printstream FT, B/O: $54
⎯M4A1-S Blue Phosphor FN, B/O: $434
StatTrak™ M4A1-S Bright Water MW, B/O: $55
⎯M4A4 Poseidon FN, B/O: $1465
M4A4 Asiimov BS, B/O: $55
M4A4 Hellfire MW, B/O: $50
⎯USP-S Kill Confirmed MW, B/O: $72
USP-S Printstream FT, B/O: $69
StatTrak™ USP-S Kill Confirmed FT, B/O: $139
⎯AUG Flame Jörmungandr FN, B/O: $234
P90 Run and Hide FT, B/O: $147
Five-SeveN Candy Apple FN, B/O: $61
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2023.06.05 02:35 Particular-Cry-778 I wonder which one I should pick...
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2023.06.05 02:17 Bladerunner3039 Current PvP FPS games w lobbies separated by input and/or no aim-assisted controllers??
Old-school M&K FPS player trying to get into some new games. No desire to either use a controller or play against controller users who are granted aim-assist. Anyone know off the top of their head a list of current games where lobbies are separated by input type, or else no aim-assist on controllers? Battle Royales, TDM, Looter Shooter, Arena, whatever as long as it has PVP.
Escape from Tarkov and I think Valorant and Overwarch might be examples? What about Destiny 2 PvP, Warzone 1 or 2, or any of the newer Battlefield titles?
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Escape from Tarkov and I think Valorant and Overwarch might be examples? What about Destiny 2 PvP, Warzone 1 or 2, or any of the newer Battlefield titles?
2023.06.05 02:17 DinoDracko Freezeman Scenario is just the worst.
Now that I replayed Battle Network 2, as much as I liked the game, I realized how much of a DRAG the Freezeman Scenario is. Layered fetch quests and many other BS. Please tell me someone actually got fired over this. (I'm gonna explain/rant about this as if legacy collection isn't a thing yet)
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- First you have to save Roll for Mayl, but you can't go to Yumland without the RedCure to break the red ice, which you have to get it from some random purple Navi in Kotobuki Area, which then you have to bring it to your dad to make a RedCure, THEN only you can go to Yumland.
- To get the HeatData, you have to jack in to the BBQ stove to talk to the program to give it to you. But he says to go save his brother first, which is the same area Roll was held in. Then after you saved him, you have run ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE STOVE to just tell him the news, only then he gives it to you.
- To even meet the Doc, you have to go read posts on the board just to get a clue. Lan says to get some info, but was a little vague about where. Then, you have to run all the way from the Netopia Area to the Undernet Area. Good luck getting there without getting any encounters! This arc burned all the SneakRuns I bought tbh, because the random encounters were relentless. If you have a crap folder then good luck with that! At this point, you have to alternate between Netopia Area and Undernet a lot, seriously, running back and forth is so fun am I right? Then, the greedy Navi asks for a ZapRing2 B. This is the part I got stuck on for a LONG TIME, because of the possibly abysmal folder you have, S Ranking the TuffBunnies is HARD. Hope to god you have Gater or something to S Rank them, but good luck getting them on the first turn!
- After that, before the Doc even shows up, you have to go to the Undernet Board just to post that one phrase just to get him to show up. After making the YellowCure for you, he says he just HAPPENS to know some guy's brother who's trying to break the ice. After rescuing that trapped Navi, he asks you to go find his brother in the Undernet, so back to the Undernet, AGAIN. When you finally make it to Undernet 3, the so called "brother" tells you to relay the news back to his brother telling him he's alright. Ughhhh, you have to jack out and jack in for the umpteenth time, go back to the green Navi brother, and only then he will give you a BlueFragA. Then you have to go back to Undernet 3, AGAIN. Then, this asshat makes it worse and teases you with the BlueFrag from somewhere you can't reach, ugh.
- After that, you have to Jack out and jack in AGAIN, to go to the NetSquare where the pink Navi brother is, to get the GateKeyD, which allows access to UnderKoto. Where does UnderKoto lead you may ask? Yep, Undernet 3, AGAIN. Finally, you get to confront that Navi who teased you, and it feels, anti-climatic. He spills everything right then and there and dies on the spot, and only THEN you receive the Second BlueFrag.
- When you finally confront Freezeman, he is a goddamn cakewalk, even with the shitty folder I had. After you receive the third BluFrag, it breaks. Only then that Doc guy shows up somehow and tells you that you destroyed the power source, so the BlueFrags are no longer needed. Get this, I basically went through hell, constant backtracking and doing fetch quests all over, from Yumland to Okuden, then Netopia and Undernet for the YellowCure and those two goddamn BlueFrags, only then to tell me after I defeated Freezeman, those are no longer needed?? Why the hell can't I just confront Freezeman in the first place to avoid all that aggravation?!
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2023.06.05 01:47 soul2197 [FS/FT] [US-NJ][07042] [H] Arena: the Contest + Tanares Adventures big bundle - fully sleeved and sorted, Earth KS w/ insert, Rising Sun bundle, Kabuto Sumo bundle, Frostpunk, Forest of Radgost, Maglev Maps Volume 1, Power Plants, Bardsung, Destinies, and more - [W] $$$, a few trades
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Clearing out a bunch of mostly unplayed games from my collection. Buyer pays shipping from 07042 or local pickup available. Happy to combine multiple items to ease shipping costs.
Available games
All items marked as condition 5 are new in shrink wrap.
Arena: the Contest + Tanares Adventures big bundle - all fully sleeved and sorted [4.5* aside from two points listed below] - $650 (local only for now, I will drive up to 1 hour to meet you part way if needed), contains the following consolidated boxes:
Call to Adventure [5] - $20
Champions of Midgard [3] (box a bit worn, components in excellent condition) - $30
Clank! Legacy: Acquisitions Incorporated - The C Team Pack [5] - $15
Concordia Venus [5] - $55
Dandelions [5] - $15
Destinies [4] + Destinies: Sea of Sand [5] (base game only played once) - $40
Earth [4] (only played once, includes upgraded KS bits, wooden insert fully assembled and all cards sleeved) - $90
Equinox Golem Edition [5] - $25
Forest of Radgost [4.5] (oak pledge, opened but never played) - $85
Frostpunk [5] (Kickstarter core pledge w/ Frostlander expansion) - $100 CLAIMED
It's a Wonderful World: War or Peace [4.5] (opened box but envelopes inside are untouched) - $15
Kabuto Sumo bundle [4] (contains base game and Insect All-Stars together in base box, only played once, Total Mayhem expansion NIS and Andre the Goliath promo NIS) - $65
Kingdomino [3] (good condition, a bit of shelf wear) - $10
Maglev Maps Volume 1 [4.5] (box was opened just to remove the screen printed meeples from the kickstarter, nothing else was touched) - $85
Meeples & Monsters: Kickstarter Edition [4] (excellent condition, played twice) - $35
On Tour: Paris and New York + Promo Dice [5] - $35
Power Plants [5] (KS edition) - $45
Rising Sun [5] (base game in shrink) - $70
Rising Sun bundle [4*] (contains base game, daimyo box, dynasty invasion, kami unbound, monster pack, anad metal coin pack all stored in main game box, no inserts or expansion boxes, received in trade - minor issues: From the Monster Pack, the Jorogumo miniature was damaged: The clear plastic post mounting the miniature to the base was snapped at the base insertion point and at the insertion point on the underside of the miniature; both have been repaired with super glue, also box had one corner starting to split, also repaired) - $200
Rolling Heights [4] (only played once, excellent condition) - $60
Rumi K [2] (pretty beat up, also awkwardly long box to ship) - $5 local only
Tiny Towns [4] (played once, excellent condition) - $20
The Magnificent [5] - $25
Valor & Villainy: Minions of Mordak [5] - $30
Wishlist
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Clearing out a bunch of mostly unplayed games from my collection. Buyer pays shipping from 07042 or local pickup available. Happy to combine multiple items to ease shipping costs.
Available games
All items marked as condition 5 are new in shrink wrap.
Arena: the Contest + Tanares Adventures big bundle - all fully sleeved and sorted [4.5* aside from two points listed below] - $650 (local only for now, I will drive up to 1 hour to meet you part way if needed), contains the following consolidated boxes:
- Arena: the Contest core box, with plastic token set
- Tanares Adventures, with Medusa extra hero (*one of the minis, Oguemir, came with no base attached. I have requested a replacement mini and will be happy to ship it along when I receive it.)
- Dragon Collection Box, with updated rule book
- Legendary Box, with Hero Pack 2 inside as well
- Penumbral Box, with Character Pack, Mystical Pack, Class Pack, and Villain Pack inside (*box has a tear on cover from being poorly packed during shipping)
- Madness Box
- Scenario Pack
- 3 assembled figures outside of the boxes: Elder Dragon, Gold Dragon, and Dread/Tarrasque
Call to Adventure [5] - $20
Champions of Midgard [3] (box a bit worn, components in excellent condition) - $30
Clank! Legacy: Acquisitions Incorporated - The C Team Pack [5] - $15
Concordia Venus [5] - $55
Dandelions [5] - $15
Destinies [4] + Destinies: Sea of Sand [5] (base game only played once) - $40
Earth [4] (only played once, includes upgraded KS bits, wooden insert fully assembled and all cards sleeved) - $90
Equinox Golem Edition [5] - $25
Forest of Radgost [4.5] (oak pledge, opened but never played) - $85
It's a Wonderful World: War or Peace [4.5] (opened box but envelopes inside are untouched) - $15
Kabuto Sumo bundle [4] (contains base game and Insect All-Stars together in base box, only played once, Total Mayhem expansion NIS and Andre the Goliath promo NIS) - $65
Kingdomino [3] (good condition, a bit of shelf wear) - $10
Maglev Maps Volume 1 [4.5] (box was opened just to remove the screen printed meeples from the kickstarter, nothing else was touched) - $85
Meeples & Monsters: Kickstarter Edition [4] (excellent condition, played twice) - $35
On Tour: Paris and New York + Promo Dice [5] - $35
Power Plants [5] (KS edition) - $45
Rising Sun [5] (base game in shrink) - $70
Rising Sun bundle [4*] (contains base game, daimyo box, dynasty invasion, kami unbound, monster pack, anad metal coin pack all stored in main game box, no inserts or expansion boxes, received in trade - minor issues: From the Monster Pack, the Jorogumo miniature was damaged: The clear plastic post mounting the miniature to the base was snapped at the base insertion point and at the insertion point on the underside of the miniature; both have been repaired with super glue, also box had one corner starting to split, also repaired) - $200
Rolling Heights [4] (only played once, excellent condition) - $60
Rumi K [2] (pretty beat up, also awkwardly long box to ship) - $5 local only
Tiny Towns [4] (played once, excellent condition) - $20
The Magnificent [5] - $25
Valor & Villainy: Minions of Mordak [5] - $30
Wishlist
- Moonrakers: First Encounters expansion
- Village Attacks
- Tigris & Euphrates
- Quodd Heroes
- War Room
- For Science!
- Sniper Elite deluxe upgrade kit
- Heroes of Tenefyr
- Mage Knight standard edition (no ultimate edition or expansions)
- Mindbug
- Bus
- Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation
- Claustrophobia 1643
- Path of Light and Shadow