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Silksong and Sonic Crossworlds reviews (Spoilers)
Posted 2 days agoSilksong:
I want to preface this by noting that I never played the first Hollow Knight. The characters and world didn't interest me. I did, however, watch a playthrough of it by
tsuki-akurei so I know all the story in it and did like the character of Hornet, who interested me enough that when Silksong was announced, I wanted to get it to play as her.
Graphics:
The art style is the same as the OG Hollow Knight, however there are more details on things and better shading. That said, characters can vary on how much detail they have. Hornet for example is a literal stick figure despite allegedly having an exoskeleton like the rest of the bugs. This sadly continues into the pre rendered animations and not just gameplay. The game also is generally pretty poor about indications of secret placements as cracked walls you can damage are often nearly impossible to tell apart from other walls.
Music:
Most of the music in the game is very dour and depressing to match the setting and as a result nearly nothing stands out. In fact the only theme I can even somewhat remember is the battle against the boss Skarrsinger. It's fitting for where you go during the game but it makes for a rather unremarkable OST as a whole.
Controls:
While I was playing this on the Switch, I chose to use only the 4 Directional buttons, not the analogue stick since it has no actual function. Items and skills are mapped to simple to remember buttons, however it is very notable during certain fights or platforming segments that the game will randomly mess up your inputs. For instance, you could jump, then press down and attack and Hornet does a standard attack, leading to you dying in the boss fight or failing your platforming. I can confirm that is not controller related as i continually swapped between several controls during my gameplay and this happened repeatedly.
Gameplay:
Hornet is very fun to move around and attack foes and do platforming with and grows more fun the more techniques you learn. HOWEVER... the problem is that the developers don't know how to balance a boss fight. In most cases, a boss is a very powerful foe who doesn't react to your attacks and only leaves specific openings for you to hit that while you carefully dodge their attack in a very elegant type of dance. The issue is that the developers wanted to make the battles "harder", but instead of making the bosses faster with limited tells, they instead often chose to implement multiple mooks in a gang fight. Said mooks will not be synchronized with the boss in any manner. This become so much worse later on in the game as you will have multi stage boss fights that start throwing random attacks from random directions while random mooks spawn in throwing random attack patterns, all while the boss is doing their scripted movements. This often is made worse by making you walk three miles from a bench to even reach the boss again. For the last leg of the game, all the bosses have pre-fight arena fights, often consisting of ten (10) powerful mooks that you must kill before you have a chance to fight the boss and with no breaks inbetween. This often gets squished all together so you will have a mook arena fight, a boss that summons mooks, and when you die you have a 3 mile hike back to the room where you home the RNG gods work on your side. Want to make a Silksong player feel rage? Ask them "So how was Bilewater?"
Story
Taking place about 200+ years after Hollow Knight, the story opens with Hornet being captured and hauled across the lands before she finally builds enough strength to slaughter her captors and destroy her imprisonment, but she's drained of all her energy and needs to slowly regroup. You soon find the area she's in is one of the origin points of the Weavers and everyone is trying to go to the castle-like area at the peak of the lands here for some sort of holy journey. naturally this is a farce as the people here have Thread weaved deep inside of their bodies and the one at the citadel is pulling on said strings. The game initially follows Hornet cutting her way through the processed people to the one who captured her and then killing her. The only issue with that is the being who is doing all this is "The Primordial Silk" and she allegedly made the weavers intelligent in the first place but they abandoned her when they learned she was a corrupt controlling monster. Said monster sent out soldiers to try and capture weavers and bring them back, willing or unwilling, to make them slaves so she could have them around her. In the normal ending, Hornet kills her and absorbs her, something Weavers can do to gain the power of foes. This causes hornet to fully grow into her true six eyed, six armed weaver Goddess form, but the game ends before it gives any clarification on if she would be a positive or negative influence on the world. By doing all the side quests and talking to a specific NPC, you can kill the queen a different way, but this instead causes the Void to come back and use her silk threads. The game proceeds to become about 4x HARDER than it already was. By doing increasingly more bullshit bossfights, you eventually fight again in the void in a supremely bullshit three stage fight. Your reward is an ending that leaves no explanation on where things go or what becomes of the entire place you spent hours trying to liberate. It honestly left me feeling infuriated that i went through that much bullshit gameplay to get such a shitty reward.
Summary:
While i applaud Team Cherry for only charging $20 in a day where $70 is the fucking norm for games, don't get this game unless you're a masochist. You put in a ton of effort and a ton of pain for extremely little reward.
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Sonic Racing Crossworlds:
I've played Mario kart since 64 days all the way up to Mario Kart 8, and the best one was Double Dash as driving was more important than spamming items. The best mario kart game after double dash was actually Sonic Racing Transformed. After seeing the stupid "Open World" aspect of Mario Kart World that is filled with nothing and no reliable tracks with laps, I had no interest in it, but Crossworlds did interest me. So... how is it?
Graphics:
This game is freaking gorgeous. While retaining the typical sonic style, lots of color is in every track and every racer. Every car and board is wonderfully detailed and even has custom decals you can apply as well as mix and match parts. it's honestly lovely to look at. I never had any issue of not seeing where I was going.
Music:
Me oh my the music in this game is just excellent. Remixes of well known tracks as well as all new tunes are a treat to listen to. They also have sped up lap 3 remixes and have really well done transition points for when you slip into a crossover world.
Controls:
Oh so simple yet slick, anyone who ever played a kart racer will pick this up with no issue. Accelerate, break, drifting, item usage, all super simple to use. This goes for aquatic and air portions of maps as well.
Gameplay:
So as soon as you boot up the game, you can choose a racer and their vehicle and right away you see the freedom given to you. NO racer is locked to any "type" of vehicle. Want to play as Eggman, a power character, but use a Speed vehicle? You can. Characters and vehicles are split into 5 different types: Power, Speed, Acceleration, Handling, and Boost. The boost types are the Extreme Gear air boards and get the most from drifting, speed pad, and other boosting methods. next, you likely will go to a grand prix, which will have 8 cups you can go to. Each cup has 3 tracks on them and when you pick your character, you'll be given a rival. Said rival will have much higher abilities than the other racers and will share a banter with your character before the beginning of the whole race. A race on a track consists of three laps, however after the first lap, you will be sent to a crossworld. The person in first place will get to choose. While there are many places that only exist in this one lap crossworld, there is the ability to go to a Random selection, which will pull from ANY course for the second lap. After you complete the one lap in the crossworld, you'll come back to the original track which in some later cases can have some modifications, mostly rings being worth more or some elaborate jump. The fourth and final race of a grand prix is a crossworld event where you start in the first course of the cup, do lap two in the second course, then do lap three on the third course, so I hope you know the best places to do tricks. Speaking of, while drifting can build a boost, you also can do tricks off of jumps, all of which give boosts upon landing, and no you can't flub a trick. The items are very wild but easy to understand. There are in fact 2 "blue shell" items, but they are vastly more destructive. The first are the Gold and Silver weights, which crush first AND second place. No more sandbagging to steal an easy win. The most powerful is King Boom Boo. "But doesn't he shrink into a shadow during the daylight?" He has a fancy set of shades and proceeds to smash first place with five pillars of fire, which will destroy anyone and everyone around first place and down the track. There ARE ways to counter this with a couple defensive items, but you gotta drive well in first place in order to keep it as being hit by an item causes you to DROP your items to disable mario kart's style of constant backlash item fests. This is also only one mode as there is an entire area dedicated to gimmick type races, even team based races. All events will net you tickets, which are used to buy new car parts, decals, horns, and the ability to RETRY A RACE MID GRAND PRIX THAT YOU GOT ROBBED IN. The only penalty is that it will say you won with a little ticket item by the cup showing you needed to retry, which goes away if you win it with no retries. You also can spent tickets on a "friendship" function. This is where you donate tickets to a character and they complement you and give you things such as their name tag, decals, and other amusing things. There is also going to be free updates adding more sega characters over time. You also upgrade a "plaque" that allows you to bring specific abilities with you for different races. Things such as boosting when you touch another car, get a boost when you respawn after falling off the track, don't lose your items when hit, but also goes more in depth with more powerful abilities. Sadly online is the worst place to be as you often end up in lobbies with 2 players who have already blown the game open and 9 other racers who are just trolls and will somehow target YOU, despite you never getting above 5th place. if you get into first somehow, expect all hell to rain down on you. Stick with friends.
Story:
Dodonpa invited everyone here for a virtual reality race. The only deeper story is the personal interactions in the Rival mechanic or a quip certain characters will say when you use them on specific courses.
Summary:
I want to preface this by noting that I never played the first Hollow Knight. The characters and world didn't interest me. I did, however, watch a playthrough of it by
tsuki-akurei so I know all the story in it and did like the character of Hornet, who interested me enough that when Silksong was announced, I wanted to get it to play as her.Graphics:
The art style is the same as the OG Hollow Knight, however there are more details on things and better shading. That said, characters can vary on how much detail they have. Hornet for example is a literal stick figure despite allegedly having an exoskeleton like the rest of the bugs. This sadly continues into the pre rendered animations and not just gameplay. The game also is generally pretty poor about indications of secret placements as cracked walls you can damage are often nearly impossible to tell apart from other walls.
Music:
Most of the music in the game is very dour and depressing to match the setting and as a result nearly nothing stands out. In fact the only theme I can even somewhat remember is the battle against the boss Skarrsinger. It's fitting for where you go during the game but it makes for a rather unremarkable OST as a whole.
Controls:
While I was playing this on the Switch, I chose to use only the 4 Directional buttons, not the analogue stick since it has no actual function. Items and skills are mapped to simple to remember buttons, however it is very notable during certain fights or platforming segments that the game will randomly mess up your inputs. For instance, you could jump, then press down and attack and Hornet does a standard attack, leading to you dying in the boss fight or failing your platforming. I can confirm that is not controller related as i continually swapped between several controls during my gameplay and this happened repeatedly.
Gameplay:
Hornet is very fun to move around and attack foes and do platforming with and grows more fun the more techniques you learn. HOWEVER... the problem is that the developers don't know how to balance a boss fight. In most cases, a boss is a very powerful foe who doesn't react to your attacks and only leaves specific openings for you to hit that while you carefully dodge their attack in a very elegant type of dance. The issue is that the developers wanted to make the battles "harder", but instead of making the bosses faster with limited tells, they instead often chose to implement multiple mooks in a gang fight. Said mooks will not be synchronized with the boss in any manner. This become so much worse later on in the game as you will have multi stage boss fights that start throwing random attacks from random directions while random mooks spawn in throwing random attack patterns, all while the boss is doing their scripted movements. This often is made worse by making you walk three miles from a bench to even reach the boss again. For the last leg of the game, all the bosses have pre-fight arena fights, often consisting of ten (10) powerful mooks that you must kill before you have a chance to fight the boss and with no breaks inbetween. This often gets squished all together so you will have a mook arena fight, a boss that summons mooks, and when you die you have a 3 mile hike back to the room where you home the RNG gods work on your side. Want to make a Silksong player feel rage? Ask them "So how was Bilewater?"
Story
Taking place about 200+ years after Hollow Knight, the story opens with Hornet being captured and hauled across the lands before she finally builds enough strength to slaughter her captors and destroy her imprisonment, but she's drained of all her energy and needs to slowly regroup. You soon find the area she's in is one of the origin points of the Weavers and everyone is trying to go to the castle-like area at the peak of the lands here for some sort of holy journey. naturally this is a farce as the people here have Thread weaved deep inside of their bodies and the one at the citadel is pulling on said strings. The game initially follows Hornet cutting her way through the processed people to the one who captured her and then killing her. The only issue with that is the being who is doing all this is "The Primordial Silk" and she allegedly made the weavers intelligent in the first place but they abandoned her when they learned she was a corrupt controlling monster. Said monster sent out soldiers to try and capture weavers and bring them back, willing or unwilling, to make them slaves so she could have them around her. In the normal ending, Hornet kills her and absorbs her, something Weavers can do to gain the power of foes. This causes hornet to fully grow into her true six eyed, six armed weaver Goddess form, but the game ends before it gives any clarification on if she would be a positive or negative influence on the world. By doing all the side quests and talking to a specific NPC, you can kill the queen a different way, but this instead causes the Void to come back and use her silk threads. The game proceeds to become about 4x HARDER than it already was. By doing increasingly more bullshit bossfights, you eventually fight again in the void in a supremely bullshit three stage fight. Your reward is an ending that leaves no explanation on where things go or what becomes of the entire place you spent hours trying to liberate. It honestly left me feeling infuriated that i went through that much bullshit gameplay to get such a shitty reward.
Summary:
While i applaud Team Cherry for only charging $20 in a day where $70 is the fucking norm for games, don't get this game unless you're a masochist. You put in a ton of effort and a ton of pain for extremely little reward.
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Sonic Racing Crossworlds:
I've played Mario kart since 64 days all the way up to Mario Kart 8, and the best one was Double Dash as driving was more important than spamming items. The best mario kart game after double dash was actually Sonic Racing Transformed. After seeing the stupid "Open World" aspect of Mario Kart World that is filled with nothing and no reliable tracks with laps, I had no interest in it, but Crossworlds did interest me. So... how is it?
Graphics:
This game is freaking gorgeous. While retaining the typical sonic style, lots of color is in every track and every racer. Every car and board is wonderfully detailed and even has custom decals you can apply as well as mix and match parts. it's honestly lovely to look at. I never had any issue of not seeing where I was going.
Music:
Me oh my the music in this game is just excellent. Remixes of well known tracks as well as all new tunes are a treat to listen to. They also have sped up lap 3 remixes and have really well done transition points for when you slip into a crossover world.
Controls:
Oh so simple yet slick, anyone who ever played a kart racer will pick this up with no issue. Accelerate, break, drifting, item usage, all super simple to use. This goes for aquatic and air portions of maps as well.
Gameplay:
So as soon as you boot up the game, you can choose a racer and their vehicle and right away you see the freedom given to you. NO racer is locked to any "type" of vehicle. Want to play as Eggman, a power character, but use a Speed vehicle? You can. Characters and vehicles are split into 5 different types: Power, Speed, Acceleration, Handling, and Boost. The boost types are the Extreme Gear air boards and get the most from drifting, speed pad, and other boosting methods. next, you likely will go to a grand prix, which will have 8 cups you can go to. Each cup has 3 tracks on them and when you pick your character, you'll be given a rival. Said rival will have much higher abilities than the other racers and will share a banter with your character before the beginning of the whole race. A race on a track consists of three laps, however after the first lap, you will be sent to a crossworld. The person in first place will get to choose. While there are many places that only exist in this one lap crossworld, there is the ability to go to a Random selection, which will pull from ANY course for the second lap. After you complete the one lap in the crossworld, you'll come back to the original track which in some later cases can have some modifications, mostly rings being worth more or some elaborate jump. The fourth and final race of a grand prix is a crossworld event where you start in the first course of the cup, do lap two in the second course, then do lap three on the third course, so I hope you know the best places to do tricks. Speaking of, while drifting can build a boost, you also can do tricks off of jumps, all of which give boosts upon landing, and no you can't flub a trick. The items are very wild but easy to understand. There are in fact 2 "blue shell" items, but they are vastly more destructive. The first are the Gold and Silver weights, which crush first AND second place. No more sandbagging to steal an easy win. The most powerful is King Boom Boo. "But doesn't he shrink into a shadow during the daylight?" He has a fancy set of shades and proceeds to smash first place with five pillars of fire, which will destroy anyone and everyone around first place and down the track. There ARE ways to counter this with a couple defensive items, but you gotta drive well in first place in order to keep it as being hit by an item causes you to DROP your items to disable mario kart's style of constant backlash item fests. This is also only one mode as there is an entire area dedicated to gimmick type races, even team based races. All events will net you tickets, which are used to buy new car parts, decals, horns, and the ability to RETRY A RACE MID GRAND PRIX THAT YOU GOT ROBBED IN. The only penalty is that it will say you won with a little ticket item by the cup showing you needed to retry, which goes away if you win it with no retries. You also can spent tickets on a "friendship" function. This is where you donate tickets to a character and they complement you and give you things such as their name tag, decals, and other amusing things. There is also going to be free updates adding more sega characters over time. You also upgrade a "plaque" that allows you to bring specific abilities with you for different races. Things such as boosting when you touch another car, get a boost when you respawn after falling off the track, don't lose your items when hit, but also goes more in depth with more powerful abilities. Sadly online is the worst place to be as you often end up in lobbies with 2 players who have already blown the game open and 9 other racers who are just trolls and will somehow target YOU, despite you never getting above 5th place. if you get into first somehow, expect all hell to rain down on you. Stick with friends.
Story:
Dodonpa invited everyone here for a virtual reality race. The only deeper story is the personal interactions in the Rival mechanic or a quip certain characters will say when you use them on specific courses.
Summary:
HACK going around!
Posted 3 weeks agoMy very good friend 
trias just got his discord profile hacked and his server was nuked along with the profile.
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/11218375/
We're still investigating the extent of the damages.
trias just got his discord profile hacked and his server was nuked along with the profile.https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/11218375/
We're still investigating the extent of the damages.
Can we just stop being awful to other people?
Posted 3 weeks agoI don't know where to begin with this...
I do my best to keep away from harshness as I have an extremely difficult life. When I go online, I seek relaxation and sanctuary. However I'm seeing a gross uptick in people who cheer when something bad happens to a person that they "just don't like".
They can NEVER know who this person was and then hear something bad happened to them and be told "Oh they did [moderately bad thing that's been blown out of proportion], so they deserved it." and they will accept it at face value.
One of my very closest friends got disturbed by this trend and asked why "it's okay" to hurt or even KILL someone you "just don't like." Maybe this person would talk and say stupid things. maybe they would do stupid things, but they didn't physically hurt anyone else.
Instead of any logic, he was dogpiled. He was told how it was a "good thing" that someone who never physically hurt anyone was hurt/murdered. He was told that the person who performed the assault was " a hero" instead of a murderer. They ignored how the assault of this person shines a spotlight on THEIR community as to where such a cold blooded killer could come from.
No logic was found anywhere, just pure hatred was spewed forth from the "supposedly peaceful" community towards him.
My close friend NUKED his gallery and profile as a result.
I came online to find a few shreds of messages and my friend GONE.
I don't know how to handle this other than as another loss in my life.
I do my best to keep away from harshness as I have an extremely difficult life. When I go online, I seek relaxation and sanctuary. However I'm seeing a gross uptick in people who cheer when something bad happens to a person that they "just don't like".
They can NEVER know who this person was and then hear something bad happened to them and be told "Oh they did [moderately bad thing that's been blown out of proportion], so they deserved it." and they will accept it at face value.
One of my very closest friends got disturbed by this trend and asked why "it's okay" to hurt or even KILL someone you "just don't like." Maybe this person would talk and say stupid things. maybe they would do stupid things, but they didn't physically hurt anyone else.
Instead of any logic, he was dogpiled. He was told how it was a "good thing" that someone who never physically hurt anyone was hurt/murdered. He was told that the person who performed the assault was " a hero" instead of a murderer. They ignored how the assault of this person shines a spotlight on THEIR community as to where such a cold blooded killer could come from.
No logic was found anywhere, just pure hatred was spewed forth from the "supposedly peaceful" community towards him.
My close friend NUKED his gallery and profile as a result.
I came online to find a few shreds of messages and my friend GONE.
I don't know how to handle this other than as another loss in my life.
Gallery Restored and new posts uploaded
Posted 5 months agoYup, everything viable is back and I have uploaded my current backlog.
Gallery restoration and new posts.
Posted 5 months agoWith the current administration of FA willing to talk 1 on 1 on specific posts, I no longer have fear of something violating the terms in my gallery.
I will be reposting most of my removed images, but not my scraps.
I will also be uploading new posts, though a little slowly since I am still rebuilding my gallery from when I purged it.
I will be reposting most of my removed images, but not my scraps.
I will also be uploading new posts, though a little slowly since I am still rebuilding my gallery from when I purged it.
Posting again? I think so.
Posted 5 months agoI decided to talk to the administration and verify every image I wished to upload.
This appears to be no issue along with most of the images I removed from the gallery barring, like, 3.
So expect some uploads.
This appears to be no issue along with most of the images I removed from the gallery barring, like, 3.
So expect some uploads.
Yeah okay... So where to find me.
Posted 6 months agoPLACES I ACTIVELY POST CONTENT:
- Itaku:
https://itaku.ee/profile/legion_beast
This is where I post my new commissions for the most part.
- Bluesky:
https://bsky.app/profile/legionbeast.bsky.social
I will also frequently post my commissions obtained here.
- e621:
https://e621.net/users/14432
I will also post my commissions here, even if I upload content that I find hasn't been uploaded and isn't a commission for me.
What about other places?
- FA:
Until I can be 200% certain that content I've been posting for the last 10+ years, which includes 0% cub artwork, can be freely posted without being instantly banned, I will not post a single image here or replace anything in my gallery.
I WILL STILL RESPOND TO PM AND COMMENTS.
- Inkbunny:
Until IB bans ALL AI cancer, I will not post a single thing here.
I WILL STILL RESPOND TO PM AND COMMENTS.
I also am a moderator for trias 's Discord server, so you can find me there as well if you want to directly communicate.
- Itaku:
https://itaku.ee/profile/legion_beast
This is where I post my new commissions for the most part.
- Bluesky:
https://bsky.app/profile/legionbeast.bsky.social
I will also frequently post my commissions obtained here.
- e621:
https://e621.net/users/14432
I will also post my commissions here, even if I upload content that I find hasn't been uploaded and isn't a commission for me.
What about other places?
- FA:
Until I can be 200% certain that content I've been posting for the last 10+ years, which includes 0% cub artwork, can be freely posted without being instantly banned, I will not post a single image here or replace anything in my gallery.
I WILL STILL RESPOND TO PM AND COMMENTS.
- Inkbunny:
Until IB bans ALL AI cancer, I will not post a single thing here.
I WILL STILL RESPOND TO PM AND COMMENTS.
I also am a moderator for
trias 's Discord server, so you can find me there as well if you want to directly communicate.So, can short characters be posted?
Posted 6 months agoOr is that still just an automatic "everything is cub and you're banned" mindset for this place?
I love small MATURE males with LARGE ladies, but how soon would I post one before some one on the mod crew decides that THEY don't like it and nuke my gallery with the excuse it's Cub?
Or how about the reverse? A small MATURE female who has a larger boyfriend/husband?
October of 2024 showed that the entire mod crew was guilty of AND flooded with the deletion and requests of deletion of "small characters" for some unknown metric they couldn't quantify what passed and what didn't.
This was so bad, I went into my gallery and removed ALL images that could even be misconstrued as remotely unacceptable, replacing the image with a rather obviously repeating meme image.
Even if the rules are firmly repealed, they will NOT be re-uploaded here.
So, CAN short MATURE character be posted?
Feral ones?
Small Digimon?
Single form Pokemon?
Or is this place still locked down and I shouldn't risk anything here?
I love small MATURE males with LARGE ladies, but how soon would I post one before some one on the mod crew decides that THEY don't like it and nuke my gallery with the excuse it's Cub?
Or how about the reverse? A small MATURE female who has a larger boyfriend/husband?
October of 2024 showed that the entire mod crew was guilty of AND flooded with the deletion and requests of deletion of "small characters" for some unknown metric they couldn't quantify what passed and what didn't.
This was so bad, I went into my gallery and removed ALL images that could even be misconstrued as remotely unacceptable, replacing the image with a rather obviously repeating meme image.
Even if the rules are firmly repealed, they will NOT be re-uploaded here.
So, CAN short MATURE character be posted?
Feral ones?
Small Digimon?
Single form Pokemon?
Or is this place still locked down and I shouldn't risk anything here?
October 30th 2.7
Posted 11 months agolol
lmao even.
I could have told everyone here that such mass reports would happen.
That is why I stopped uploading anything here since it would be so easy for some punk with a chip on their shoulder to just report me for having a male character smaller than a female. You know, ignoring the male character is close to6 feet tall and holds a job and that the female is nearly 12 feet tall.
lmao even.
I could have told everyone here that such mass reports would happen.
That is why I stopped uploading anything here since it would be so easy for some punk with a chip on their shoulder to just report me for having a male character smaller than a female. You know, ignoring the male character is close to6 feet tall and holds a job and that the female is nearly 12 feet tall.
Always a "new policy"
Posted 11 months agoBack in May of 2023 came the announcement of a stipulation of 2.7's crackdown on small statured characters.
The writing was on the wall and I knew this would go south very quickly and I promptly removed all the images in my gallery featuring any such characters.
Now, Dragoneer is gone and the rule of 2.7 was so vague that now pregnancy images and egg laying images are at risk of being offenses to the site.
Next will come the depiction of fertilization being classified as "a minor in an explicit image".
But this all is the astroturf because the inevitable tumblrification of this place.
Don't trust the mods and administrative crew. They could have implemented firm age verification and site secure functions that would mean any minor who DID come in here was at fault, NOT the artists who just want a gallery to showcase art. They could have implemented a blacklist function.
They COULD have. That COULD have spans around 20 years, and they never DID.
Keep that in mind and remember why I stopped uploading here.
The writing was on the wall and I knew this would go south very quickly and I promptly removed all the images in my gallery featuring any such characters.
Now, Dragoneer is gone and the rule of 2.7 was so vague that now pregnancy images and egg laying images are at risk of being offenses to the site.
Next will come the depiction of fertilization being classified as "a minor in an explicit image".
But this all is the astroturf because the inevitable tumblrification of this place.
Don't trust the mods and administrative crew. They could have implemented firm age verification and site secure functions that would mean any minor who DID come in here was at fault, NOT the artists who just want a gallery to showcase art. They could have implemented a blacklist function.
They COULD have. That COULD have spans around 20 years, and they never DID.
Keep that in mind and remember why I stopped uploading here.
Dragoneer
Posted a year agoI never knew him personally. I did not agree with how the site was run and I still have many gripes in regards to the infrastructure and rules in place, however I can't say I ever hated him.
I was overjoyed that he favorited one of my submissions, of which I had to edit out the image from as the small stature of some pokemon now violates the rules, but I archived the image of him favoriting it mainly because I wanted to be able to show folks it happened and because I was archiving one of Athus' last conversations.
Little did I know I would archive a favorite of Dragoneer.
It's horrible how he died and how the health care system held his life for ransom.
Hopefully in the hereafter, he will be able to rest.
I was overjoyed that he favorited one of my submissions, of which I had to edit out the image from as the small stature of some pokemon now violates the rules, but I archived the image of him favoriting it mainly because I wanted to be able to show folks it happened and because I was archiving one of Athus' last conversations.
Little did I know I would archive a favorite of Dragoneer.
It's horrible how he died and how the health care system held his life for ransom.
Hopefully in the hereafter, he will be able to rest.
Today is 2.7 day
Posted a year agoHere it is, the big day where the mods and admins of FA get to destroy your gallery because you had a shortstack in it or a first form pokemon.
All content of that nature has been removed from my gallery here, replaced with wholesome images of my OC Dinosaur cop telling you he has some donuts. I won't be uploading anything here for fear it may set off a mod/admin as i do like size difference between two adults.
Inkbunny is still full on stupid with Ai so I've not been uploading anything there either.
All content of that nature has been removed from my gallery here, replaced with wholesome images of my OC Dinosaur cop telling you he has some donuts. I won't be uploading anything here for fear it may set off a mod/admin as i do like size difference between two adults.
Inkbunny is still full on stupid with Ai so I've not been uploading anything there either.
No April Fools
Posted a year agoI never do april fools.
Does torture stop?
Posted 2 years agoI haven't said much and I haven't done much as of late. There are reasons for that.
Internet related:
-FA: With the new policies in place, I can't risk anything I post being deemed "under aged" just because it doesn't happen to be tall enough. This is horribly irritating for someone who loves smaller males on larger females and thus, I won't be uploading to FA anymore because of it, though I'll still use it.
-IB: I've made a firm point that I will not upload so much as a single image to IB until they ban and remove all "AI" images. As it stands, IB is being flooded with metric truckloads of it and it's drowning out actual content made by hard working artists. There also is no guarantee that anything I upload WON'T be scraped for their machines, which is a theft I will not accept.
As it stands, Itaku, e621, and rule34xxx are the only places I upload content.
IRL related:
So I've been quiet on this but now I must speak it in full.
I am the oldest of 3 siblings, all brothers. Middle brother got married in 2018 and things began to go bad ever since. Said wife lives with her grandfather. She does not have a place of her own. My brother never officially moved in, he just "stopped coming home" one day. What was hidden from us is that his wife has very bad Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. She is missing about 25% of her brain, her body is riddled with health issues, and she will have manic screaming events where she lashes out at anyone and everyone, but usually targets someone. People with FAS ALWAYS project their issues onto someone they don't like.
My family has the misfortune of having my mother's sister with full blown FAS, and she gave that to her son, along with having a full outbreak of genital herpes, meaning he was born not just with 25% of his brain missing ,but he's insane on top of it. The problem in all this is my brother is autistic and can "act" like a functioning adult, but he isn't one. He only sees things on a surface level and is the poster child for the phrase "if it was a snake ,it would have bit you".
After many hellish years dealing with insane aunt and cousin, we warned Brother and his wife to NOT interact with cousin and aunt because the yare violent, abusive manipulators.
Brother did exactly the opposite and socialized with his cousin. Said cousin wanted my brother for himself to be his personal "husband" who would pay for him to sit around, eat, and play video games and him getting a wife angered him greatly, so he devised to torture brother's wife. He did this by making fake facebook profiles of my mother's profile and harassing said wife relentlessly.
See, my mother knows all my aunt and cousin's tricks, so it was important to twist things so my brother would NEVER see her face to face. This has worked because 2020 happened and said cousin and aunt got to "face time" over facebook without any interruptions. My cousin soaked my brother's brain for a solid year. This was perfectly in their plan because brother and wife had a daughter and my aunt is a violent child abuser who is obsessed with children under 5 and she will do anything she can to be interacting with them as she hallucinates that they are her own, so further demonizing my mother on baseless claims is her go-to. As a result, we never saw my brother or his daughter for all of 2021, 2022, and 2023. But the insane aunt has had free access to her all this time.
The following three years have been nothing but me supporting my mother emotionally. Every morning she wakes in tears because said brother is such an idiot he believes hearsay from his cousin instead of actual facts. I know this as I saw him as of April 2023 and he is making up excuses on the spot as to why he shouldn't see his mother and see the truth.
Said cousin has blown out his kidneys intentionally with diabetes so he could be unemployed, but now he's in the hospital as this is the 5th year of dialysis. He dies this year and no one will mourn him. Said aunt is rotting away in a similar manner, though she's degenerating in different areas, namely her sight and claiming everyone in the world is a chronic liar EXCEPT her.
And finally, we found out that the grandfather of the Wife is ALSO full of FAS and he's a total coward who tried to call the cops on my father for trying to talk to my brother. This failed hard for the old man since he has zero right to prevent a father from seeing his child and the cops now have it logged that the old man made a bogus emergency call.
But even with that said, this is reaching a breaking point for me and I cannot handle it.
My father has issues he won't address and he frequently causes many issues around the house and for our family on a GOOD day, so he is NOT helpful in the emotional damage my mother is suffering. She lost her son and her granddaughter to her disgusting, insane sister who ALWAYS stole things from her all her life, and she mourns it every single day, and it won't end until those THINGS stop breathing.
And now we know the old man is an accomplice keeping my brother hidden from his own family.
No joy is in my life in any manner, just fleeting moments. My brain is filled with chaotic events of what I should do, what I could do, and never anything useful. I wake and all I know is that I will try and fail to console my mother. That my father will be useless, and hinderance, and sabotage everything because of his issues he refuses to address.
This is robbing me of years of my life I needed to prep for the real world, where I would get some "final teachings" from my parents to go and make it on my own.
No, I don't get that.
Dark thoughts swirl in my brain all day long, though I've managed to keep them at bay. Something in this insane stalemate has to break...
I hope it's not my mind...
Internet related:
-FA: With the new policies in place, I can't risk anything I post being deemed "under aged" just because it doesn't happen to be tall enough. This is horribly irritating for someone who loves smaller males on larger females and thus, I won't be uploading to FA anymore because of it, though I'll still use it.
-IB: I've made a firm point that I will not upload so much as a single image to IB until they ban and remove all "AI" images. As it stands, IB is being flooded with metric truckloads of it and it's drowning out actual content made by hard working artists. There also is no guarantee that anything I upload WON'T be scraped for their machines, which is a theft I will not accept.
As it stands, Itaku, e621, and rule34xxx are the only places I upload content.
IRL related:
So I've been quiet on this but now I must speak it in full.
I am the oldest of 3 siblings, all brothers. Middle brother got married in 2018 and things began to go bad ever since. Said wife lives with her grandfather. She does not have a place of her own. My brother never officially moved in, he just "stopped coming home" one day. What was hidden from us is that his wife has very bad Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. She is missing about 25% of her brain, her body is riddled with health issues, and she will have manic screaming events where she lashes out at anyone and everyone, but usually targets someone. People with FAS ALWAYS project their issues onto someone they don't like.
My family has the misfortune of having my mother's sister with full blown FAS, and she gave that to her son, along with having a full outbreak of genital herpes, meaning he was born not just with 25% of his brain missing ,but he's insane on top of it. The problem in all this is my brother is autistic and can "act" like a functioning adult, but he isn't one. He only sees things on a surface level and is the poster child for the phrase "if it was a snake ,it would have bit you".
After many hellish years dealing with insane aunt and cousin, we warned Brother and his wife to NOT interact with cousin and aunt because the yare violent, abusive manipulators.
Brother did exactly the opposite and socialized with his cousin. Said cousin wanted my brother for himself to be his personal "husband" who would pay for him to sit around, eat, and play video games and him getting a wife angered him greatly, so he devised to torture brother's wife. He did this by making fake facebook profiles of my mother's profile and harassing said wife relentlessly.
See, my mother knows all my aunt and cousin's tricks, so it was important to twist things so my brother would NEVER see her face to face. This has worked because 2020 happened and said cousin and aunt got to "face time" over facebook without any interruptions. My cousin soaked my brother's brain for a solid year. This was perfectly in their plan because brother and wife had a daughter and my aunt is a violent child abuser who is obsessed with children under 5 and she will do anything she can to be interacting with them as she hallucinates that they are her own, so further demonizing my mother on baseless claims is her go-to. As a result, we never saw my brother or his daughter for all of 2021, 2022, and 2023. But the insane aunt has had free access to her all this time.
The following three years have been nothing but me supporting my mother emotionally. Every morning she wakes in tears because said brother is such an idiot he believes hearsay from his cousin instead of actual facts. I know this as I saw him as of April 2023 and he is making up excuses on the spot as to why he shouldn't see his mother and see the truth.
Said cousin has blown out his kidneys intentionally with diabetes so he could be unemployed, but now he's in the hospital as this is the 5th year of dialysis. He dies this year and no one will mourn him. Said aunt is rotting away in a similar manner, though she's degenerating in different areas, namely her sight and claiming everyone in the world is a chronic liar EXCEPT her.
And finally, we found out that the grandfather of the Wife is ALSO full of FAS and he's a total coward who tried to call the cops on my father for trying to talk to my brother. This failed hard for the old man since he has zero right to prevent a father from seeing his child and the cops now have it logged that the old man made a bogus emergency call.
But even with that said, this is reaching a breaking point for me and I cannot handle it.
My father has issues he won't address and he frequently causes many issues around the house and for our family on a GOOD day, so he is NOT helpful in the emotional damage my mother is suffering. She lost her son and her granddaughter to her disgusting, insane sister who ALWAYS stole things from her all her life, and she mourns it every single day, and it won't end until those THINGS stop breathing.
And now we know the old man is an accomplice keeping my brother hidden from his own family.
No joy is in my life in any manner, just fleeting moments. My brain is filled with chaotic events of what I should do, what I could do, and never anything useful. I wake and all I know is that I will try and fail to console my mother. That my father will be useless, and hinderance, and sabotage everything because of his issues he refuses to address.
This is robbing me of years of my life I needed to prep for the real world, where I would get some "final teachings" from my parents to go and make it on my own.
No, I don't get that.
Dark thoughts swirl in my brain all day long, though I've managed to keep them at bay. Something in this insane stalemate has to break...
I hope it's not my mind...
Who's that dinosaur?!
Posted 2 years agoSome folks say they see a dinosaur with donuts who claims that they are growing stronger as they go through my gallery.
I'm here to say it's OKAY, he's here to help. There WAS a picture there containing an offending image as per FA's impending 2.7 policy, but he's replaced it with assurance that he's getting stronger.
He is making sure that all the comments, especially from those who are no longer with us, are still present and archived.
I'm here to say it's OKAY, he's here to help. There WAS a picture there containing an offending image as per FA's impending 2.7 policy, but he's replaced it with assurance that he's getting stronger.
He is making sure that all the comments, especially from those who are no longer with us, are still present and archived.
The "image swap" method?
Posted 2 years agoI'm finding it virtually impossible to delete these older submissions...
I can't watch the comments go.
Artists who aren't around, artists who have passed away... I can't do that.
But if the submission doesn't have the "thing that breaks the rules" in it, then it should be fine, right?
Has anyone done this? How effective is it?
I can't watch the comments go.
Artists who aren't around, artists who have passed away... I can't do that.
But if the submission doesn't have the "thing that breaks the rules" in it, then it should be fine, right?
Has anyone done this? How effective is it?
Important words for everyone here.
Posted 2 years agoIn a normal situation, I'd not touch my gallery, I have nothing they can pin on me as "cub" as I made certain I swept through my gallery with a fine toothed comb.
But just a couple days ago, I realized I never backed up the art made by my deceased sweetheart
renamon19 and so I did so.
To my horror, one of his images had been deleted (that I thankfully already had saved) because it was a spur of the moment thing. I then found other images he did, including one including my character, his character, and
keeperofjunk and I realized... I'm the only one out of those three who's still alive... It was soul rattling and I'm still not over the loss of my sweetheart 13 years ago.
Then the clarification came out, specifically tagging "small" pokemon or "first stage" pokemon... So what does this mean for Zangoose who only has one stage? I refuse to send out a ticket, that puts you in the bullseye and they will FIND something that they deem violates the rules.
But the more damning one is that they listed Gatomon. I had two gatomon OCs and even though I specifically have them anthroed, what the hell will the ruling be?
I normally would do nothing. I would leave my gallery as is.
... but as I went into my early gallery pics... I saw comments left by users who aren't alive anymore. I saw images done by people who have outright vanished. I run the risk of my gallery being banned simply because ONE image that some mod/admin doesn't like and those comments, those images, can be lost... And I can't let that happen.
I therefore will be going through my gallery and removing all of my Zangoose and gatomon images and backing them up on IB.
I hate this so much...
Because what is this for? What is this witch hunt aimed at? Vore and Teen Pregnancy doesn't "protect minors". Deleting Gatomon and Cubone pics doesn't protect minors.
But just a couple days ago, I realized I never backed up the art made by my deceased sweetheart
renamon19 and so I did so.To my horror, one of his images had been deleted (that I thankfully already had saved) because it was a spur of the moment thing. I then found other images he did, including one including my character, his character, and
keeperofjunk and I realized... I'm the only one out of those three who's still alive... It was soul rattling and I'm still not over the loss of my sweetheart 13 years ago.Then the clarification came out, specifically tagging "small" pokemon or "first stage" pokemon... So what does this mean for Zangoose who only has one stage? I refuse to send out a ticket, that puts you in the bullseye and they will FIND something that they deem violates the rules.
But the more damning one is that they listed Gatomon. I had two gatomon OCs and even though I specifically have them anthroed, what the hell will the ruling be?
I normally would do nothing. I would leave my gallery as is.
... but as I went into my early gallery pics... I saw comments left by users who aren't alive anymore. I saw images done by people who have outright vanished. I run the risk of my gallery being banned simply because ONE image that some mod/admin doesn't like and those comments, those images, can be lost... And I can't let that happen.
I therefore will be going through my gallery and removing all of my Zangoose and gatomon images and backing them up on IB.
I hate this so much...
Because what is this for? What is this witch hunt aimed at? Vore and Teen Pregnancy doesn't "protect minors". Deleting Gatomon and Cubone pics doesn't protect minors.
Gallery reminder!
Posted 2 years agoInkbunny is my PRIMARY gallery, FA is my secondary. be sure to follow me there if case the worst happens with FA.
Ultraman + Monster Rancher!
Posted 3 years agoThis game is a joy, it's the familiar Monster Rancher formula, but you raise the monsters from the Ultraman series. It's very beginner friendly and all the monsters are quite amusing.
The only downside is it's currently a Nintendo Switch exclusive, but if you have a switch, go for it ^^.
Signal Boost! Trias needs your help!
Posted 3 years agohttps://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10122502/
trias Is a fantastic artist of who I've commissioned many great images from and who'd love to make some sexy comics, but cannot feasibly do so without proper funding so that they can take fewer individual commissions per month and use the time to make the comic pages.
If YOU can't donate, then share the journal with your friends and people who would LIKE to donate to it.
trias Is a fantastic artist of who I've commissioned many great images from and who'd love to make some sexy comics, but cannot feasibly do so without proper funding so that they can take fewer individual commissions per month and use the time to make the comic pages.If YOU can't donate, then share the journal with your friends and people who would LIKE to donate to it.
Monster Rancher 1&2 OUT on Switch/pc!
Posted 4 years agohttps://www.koeitecmoamerica.com/mrdx/
Today is the day! Get two awesome classic (and glitch cleaned) monster raising and battling sims on Switch or PC for only $30, which is a STEAL for how deep these games are.
Today is the day! Get two awesome classic (and glitch cleaned) monster raising and battling sims on Switch or PC for only $30, which is a STEAL for how deep these games are.
Laptop replacement
Posted 4 years agoI'm making this message to minimize the amount of times I have to say this. I do ALL my online work and hobbies via a laptop. I've been doing this for about 10 years and this current laptop I'v been using for 5 of them. The "e" key, the "3" key, and the Spacebar are all fucked and won't work properly. How did I make this message? By using a copy and paste of all the letters I needed, which is a massive pain in the ass. This has made me massively depressed and I likely won't be better until I get a replacement laptop since I can't even properly type and write fantasy stories to escape from this nightmare. It's like having your voice slashed and your only communication to the outside world is via phone calls. See you all soon...
MLP G5 movie review (spoilers)
Posted 4 years agoSo I finally saw it. After all the media, all the other assorted stuff around it, I sat and watched it.
However, I should bring something up: When going into the movie, one must be aware that the script was finalized in 2017 before season 8 and 9 of G4 was ever made, and season 9 went through no less than 3 rewrites before reaching the finale that we currently know. As a result, if you just came off season 9's finale and into this movie, it doesn't make any sense and there are so many plotholes as to be obscene, but knowing it was made before seasons 8 and 9 were made, it makes much more sense.
Story: Taking place an unknown number of years after G4, somehow the three pony tribes live in separate cities across Equestria while they make up long standing boogieman stories of the other races. Earth ponies live in a ponyville-ish place by the seaside where the main commerce is totally ineffective anti unicorn and pegasus equipment. Pegasus live in a very fancy city where everything centers around the royal family who are singers and are the only pegasus who can fly. Unicorns live in a forest and live extremely dull, boring lives with only one being remotely happy, and it's because he's a master at puzzles and games and wins every bet that's made. To make all matters worse, magic is gone from the world. All that is left are old ruins of a time many ages ago where remnants of what we know as G4 existed. The plot follows one of the two ponies who believe that the races can get along and can bring magic back to the world.
The plot is rather predictable from here on out and inoffensive. It doesn't really talk down to the viewer, nor does it preach anything stupid.
Characters:
Sunny: An earth pony and our main character who we follow who wants to bring magic back. Her relationship with her father is very sweet and explains why she’s ostracized from the rest of the town. It was clunky with her suddenly shifting attitudes to deliver lore or plot progression, such as when her house has just been destroyed and the first thing she does amid the rubble is tell everyone they should be friends. Other than that she was nice.
Hitch is a stallion, sheriff of the town he lives in and best friend of Sunny. He was my favorite. He fit the role of “everyday guy” just trying to do his thing, when suddenly crazy stuff starts happening. He does his best to try and do his job, but he also shows he can think on his feet and he isn’t instantly accepting of what Sunny is preaching, but when he does he fights for it with every fiber of his being. I noted that when the group separated, Zipp was the only one to actually say anything to him, as if she’d personally miss him, and the two of them worked quite well together during the climax.
Izzy is a unicorn. I don’t have much to say about beyond the fact that she was very much “new pinkie pie”, but with a horn. She breaks the 4th wall, breaks reality, is seemingly whimsical and uncaring, comes from a family/setting that is depressing, but does everything out of her desire to make others happy.
Pipp is a pretty pegasus with fluffy wings. She loves everything that being popular royalty means, namely the attention. I thought she’d be “lmao phone pony” but after her mother, Queen Haven is arrested and her sister tells her what they are doing is more important, her phone aspect is dropped, but she sadly doesn’t do much of anything after that point and doesn’t have any real contributions, often being in the shadow of Izzy.
Zipp is a pegasis, sister to Pipp. It seems like they really wanted to expand on her as the “rebellious royalty” who sneaks out to do daredevil stuff and dislikes the stuffy royalty aspect, thus why she styles her mane in a punk-rocker poof. However that never got explored beyond the brief moment in the canyon and her willingness to go with Hitch to try and stop the antagonist. Aside from her loredumping the hidden pegasus room and instantly following the protagonists, she doesn’t have much to her at the moment. She has no troubles or strife to conflict with and is perfectly content the entire film beyond her worry that Sunny and Izzy would blow her secret, which is resolved in 5 seconds.
Oddly, the pegasus queen, Queen Haven, had a lot more personality than either Pipp or Zipp in this movie and actually is quite interesting as she, much like celestia, ignores her regal title and status in an instant when it comes to the safety of her daughters and the betterment of her people.
Music: I have to say this was arguably the WEAKEST point in the movie. Sunny has a song early on, then she has a duet with Izzy, Pipp has a stage performance. The only song that stood out was "Become a Mob" because it was a literal Nirvana song. I mean, not like it has some vibes to it, but it's LITERALLY a nirvana song with the lyrics traded out. Like, they had to have paid Nirvana royalties. On that note, G4 didn't have very enjoyable songs until midway through the first season with the main two songs being Art of the Dress and Best Night Ever. Giggle at the Ghosties was not that good.
"Isn't the movie full of woke trash?"
No it actually isn't. I'll be the first to rip a product a new asshole for catering to it, but I can't say that this has any of it. Some key points that argue against it:
-The main character may be a female, but she owes everything she's made of to the legacy of her father's work in archaeology and is involved in a very sweet father/daughter relationship.
-The main antagonist is a guy, but he just wants to make his mother happy. A mother whos is a power tripping karen who can't see how insane she is until her son shows what her attitude and pushing actually drives him to do
-The unicorns "leader" is a massive burly stallion who is intimidating because of how smart and skillful he is, he's not a lughead who's shat on.
-The pegasus queen is thrown in jail for her actions of deceiving the public and abusing her power the INSTANT it's found out she did so.
"But doesn't Izzy make some comment to Hitch that she's happier that he doesn't have his badge?"
She does, but she mentions it because Hitch was initially following Sunny out of obligation to arrest her. Without his badge, he has no authority in that manner and is able to see himself on equal footing with the other ponies of the group instead of obsessing on his job.
"But isn't Zipp a total lesbian with problem hair?"
I can't say so. Her character (what little there is) shows her as coming from a prissy royal family who's all about singing, looking pretty, and being on tv all the time. She wants to be an athlete and a daredevil, so she has a "punk rocker" haircut and something of a rebellious spirit. She also is the only one of the group other than Sunny to try to be friendly to Hitch. She invites him over to the fire, not heckling him when he had bad luck making his own fire, coaxing him to stay close and keep warm. When they "sadly part", she is the only one who says anything, and it's "Goodbye, Sheriff..." specifically to Hitch in a mournful manner. She also joins him in his daring plan to take out the machine at the climax of the film, leading me to simply see her as a tomboy and enjoying the company of the one guy who isn't treating her like a prissy princess.
"But the bad guy is totally a trump pony!"
The antagonist is a mostly-red pony who has a golden mane and tail. His mother is the main mare of the town and maker of the goods that are for defense against the other pony species. From a young age, he's fed the idea that he other two pony types are evil and dangerous and his mother always insists that he can be great in the world. As a result, he tries to get into positions of power, but falls short. He tries to be sheriff but is stuck as deputy under Hitch. When Hitch leaves town, she grants her son the role of Sheriff, but not long after he's sheriff, he's faced with the townsponies being terrified that the other tribes are going to attack any moment. So, he agrees and decides they need to attack them first. This results in him painting himself as a comically bad dictator, yet every step of the way, fully states he's "only doing what his mom wants". She is supportive of him at first until it gets far too out of control and she finally realizes he's only as nutty as he is because of her perpetuating the fearmongering to boost her sales. In the end of the film, after everything is said and done, he doesn't ask for power or ask for a promotion, he asks his mother "Was I a good sheriff?" and his mother avoids the question.
The long and short of it is "no". Nothing about what he does, why he does it, or how he acts has anything to do with trump.
Overall:
It's... Good. It's not great, but it's good. The animation is stellar, the voicework is very nice quality, but the story is rather weak. Pipp and Zipp have almost no characterization with their mother having drastically more personality in her limited presence. The music is... I'll be blunt, I didn't like any of it and felt it was very bad. Several songs that had no staying power with jarring melodies that broke their rhythm, and one straight up campy parody of a well known song.
It's decent but it won't hold up to repeat viewings beyond the pretty visuals. It's certainly not the woke trashfire I was expecting.
However, I should bring something up: When going into the movie, one must be aware that the script was finalized in 2017 before season 8 and 9 of G4 was ever made, and season 9 went through no less than 3 rewrites before reaching the finale that we currently know. As a result, if you just came off season 9's finale and into this movie, it doesn't make any sense and there are so many plotholes as to be obscene, but knowing it was made before seasons 8 and 9 were made, it makes much more sense.
Story: Taking place an unknown number of years after G4, somehow the three pony tribes live in separate cities across Equestria while they make up long standing boogieman stories of the other races. Earth ponies live in a ponyville-ish place by the seaside where the main commerce is totally ineffective anti unicorn and pegasus equipment. Pegasus live in a very fancy city where everything centers around the royal family who are singers and are the only pegasus who can fly. Unicorns live in a forest and live extremely dull, boring lives with only one being remotely happy, and it's because he's a master at puzzles and games and wins every bet that's made. To make all matters worse, magic is gone from the world. All that is left are old ruins of a time many ages ago where remnants of what we know as G4 existed. The plot follows one of the two ponies who believe that the races can get along and can bring magic back to the world.
The plot is rather predictable from here on out and inoffensive. It doesn't really talk down to the viewer, nor does it preach anything stupid.
Characters:
Sunny: An earth pony and our main character who we follow who wants to bring magic back. Her relationship with her father is very sweet and explains why she’s ostracized from the rest of the town. It was clunky with her suddenly shifting attitudes to deliver lore or plot progression, such as when her house has just been destroyed and the first thing she does amid the rubble is tell everyone they should be friends. Other than that she was nice.
Hitch is a stallion, sheriff of the town he lives in and best friend of Sunny. He was my favorite. He fit the role of “everyday guy” just trying to do his thing, when suddenly crazy stuff starts happening. He does his best to try and do his job, but he also shows he can think on his feet and he isn’t instantly accepting of what Sunny is preaching, but when he does he fights for it with every fiber of his being. I noted that when the group separated, Zipp was the only one to actually say anything to him, as if she’d personally miss him, and the two of them worked quite well together during the climax.
Izzy is a unicorn. I don’t have much to say about beyond the fact that she was very much “new pinkie pie”, but with a horn. She breaks the 4th wall, breaks reality, is seemingly whimsical and uncaring, comes from a family/setting that is depressing, but does everything out of her desire to make others happy.
Pipp is a pretty pegasus with fluffy wings. She loves everything that being popular royalty means, namely the attention. I thought she’d be “lmao phone pony” but after her mother, Queen Haven is arrested and her sister tells her what they are doing is more important, her phone aspect is dropped, but she sadly doesn’t do much of anything after that point and doesn’t have any real contributions, often being in the shadow of Izzy.
Zipp is a pegasis, sister to Pipp. It seems like they really wanted to expand on her as the “rebellious royalty” who sneaks out to do daredevil stuff and dislikes the stuffy royalty aspect, thus why she styles her mane in a punk-rocker poof. However that never got explored beyond the brief moment in the canyon and her willingness to go with Hitch to try and stop the antagonist. Aside from her loredumping the hidden pegasus room and instantly following the protagonists, she doesn’t have much to her at the moment. She has no troubles or strife to conflict with and is perfectly content the entire film beyond her worry that Sunny and Izzy would blow her secret, which is resolved in 5 seconds.
Oddly, the pegasus queen, Queen Haven, had a lot more personality than either Pipp or Zipp in this movie and actually is quite interesting as she, much like celestia, ignores her regal title and status in an instant when it comes to the safety of her daughters and the betterment of her people.
Music: I have to say this was arguably the WEAKEST point in the movie. Sunny has a song early on, then she has a duet with Izzy, Pipp has a stage performance. The only song that stood out was "Become a Mob" because it was a literal Nirvana song. I mean, not like it has some vibes to it, but it's LITERALLY a nirvana song with the lyrics traded out. Like, they had to have paid Nirvana royalties. On that note, G4 didn't have very enjoyable songs until midway through the first season with the main two songs being Art of the Dress and Best Night Ever. Giggle at the Ghosties was not that good.
"Isn't the movie full of woke trash?"
No it actually isn't. I'll be the first to rip a product a new asshole for catering to it, but I can't say that this has any of it. Some key points that argue against it:
-The main character may be a female, but she owes everything she's made of to the legacy of her father's work in archaeology and is involved in a very sweet father/daughter relationship.
-The main antagonist is a guy, but he just wants to make his mother happy. A mother whos is a power tripping karen who can't see how insane she is until her son shows what her attitude and pushing actually drives him to do
-The unicorns "leader" is a massive burly stallion who is intimidating because of how smart and skillful he is, he's not a lughead who's shat on.
-The pegasus queen is thrown in jail for her actions of deceiving the public and abusing her power the INSTANT it's found out she did so.
"But doesn't Izzy make some comment to Hitch that she's happier that he doesn't have his badge?"
She does, but she mentions it because Hitch was initially following Sunny out of obligation to arrest her. Without his badge, he has no authority in that manner and is able to see himself on equal footing with the other ponies of the group instead of obsessing on his job.
"But isn't Zipp a total lesbian with problem hair?"
I can't say so. Her character (what little there is) shows her as coming from a prissy royal family who's all about singing, looking pretty, and being on tv all the time. She wants to be an athlete and a daredevil, so she has a "punk rocker" haircut and something of a rebellious spirit. She also is the only one of the group other than Sunny to try to be friendly to Hitch. She invites him over to the fire, not heckling him when he had bad luck making his own fire, coaxing him to stay close and keep warm. When they "sadly part", she is the only one who says anything, and it's "Goodbye, Sheriff..." specifically to Hitch in a mournful manner. She also joins him in his daring plan to take out the machine at the climax of the film, leading me to simply see her as a tomboy and enjoying the company of the one guy who isn't treating her like a prissy princess.
"But the bad guy is totally a trump pony!"
The antagonist is a mostly-red pony who has a golden mane and tail. His mother is the main mare of the town and maker of the goods that are for defense against the other pony species. From a young age, he's fed the idea that he other two pony types are evil and dangerous and his mother always insists that he can be great in the world. As a result, he tries to get into positions of power, but falls short. He tries to be sheriff but is stuck as deputy under Hitch. When Hitch leaves town, she grants her son the role of Sheriff, but not long after he's sheriff, he's faced with the townsponies being terrified that the other tribes are going to attack any moment. So, he agrees and decides they need to attack them first. This results in him painting himself as a comically bad dictator, yet every step of the way, fully states he's "only doing what his mom wants". She is supportive of him at first until it gets far too out of control and she finally realizes he's only as nutty as he is because of her perpetuating the fearmongering to boost her sales. In the end of the film, after everything is said and done, he doesn't ask for power or ask for a promotion, he asks his mother "Was I a good sheriff?" and his mother avoids the question.
The long and short of it is "no". Nothing about what he does, why he does it, or how he acts has anything to do with trump.
Overall:
It's... Good. It's not great, but it's good. The animation is stellar, the voicework is very nice quality, but the story is rather weak. Pipp and Zipp have almost no characterization with their mother having drastically more personality in her limited presence. The music is... I'll be blunt, I didn't like any of it and felt it was very bad. Several songs that had no staying power with jarring melodies that broke their rhythm, and one straight up campy parody of a well known song.
It's decent but it won't hold up to repeat viewings beyond the pretty visuals. It's certainly not the woke trashfire I was expecting.
Monster Rancher 1&2 coming to Switch/pc!
Posted 4 years agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ttBeT-shVM
And along with it are a bunch of bug fixes and QOL improvements, including allowing the obtaining of boss-only monsters and Secret subspecies actually having unique stats.
And along with it are a bunch of bug fixes and QOL improvements, including allowing the obtaining of boss-only monsters and Secret subspecies actually having unique stats.
Nintendo E3 2021
Posted 4 years agoBecause no one else had jack shit to talk about, here is my breakdown of what I felt during Nintendo's showcase. I will only mention things I have input about:
-Smash Bros: Fighter pack 2: Fighter number 5: Kazuya from Tekken.
I'm very loosely connected to Tekken with most of my experience being Tekken 1 and 2. I mained King and Alex so it didn't mean much to me, but a lot of people were stoked for it. I'm glad it's another villain and not meme material and I'm happy for the folks who wanted a proper Tekken Rep.
-Mario Party Superstars:
YES. Holy smokes. The main issue with mario party games is the minigames and how as the series progressed, the minigames stopped being about skill, reflexes, and memory test, and just boiled down to random chance. By going back to the minigames of Party 1, 2, 3, and 4, we return to the GOOD stuff. Online is a bonus.
-Metroid DREAD:
Holy hell... While the focus was on Prime 4 for the last few years, the hopes of a "proper metroid 5" was somewhat buried. Thus, when Metroid 5 was announced, and it was showcased to be a 2d game AND is slated for THIS YEAR, AND is the phantom Dread project? No one was expecting it, and I have to say, I'm beyond happy for it, especially for Metroid's 35th anniversary.
-Monster Hunter Stories 2:
While I've known about it, this direct was the first time some avid pokemon fans have actually even heard of the game and are stunned by what they are seeing. Hopefully this exposure draws yet more people away from the bloated corpse that is pokemon.
-Advance Wars:
Well hell, look at this. Not only is Metroid back, but so is advance wars. Kudos to everyone who has been a fan!
-Age of Calamity DLC:
Weak. So fucking weak. I've 100%ed the game ages ago, meaning all the characters are done, they have top tier weapons with top tier abilities, and all missions, ALL missions, are done. DLC wave 1 hits and... We get ONE new playable character, ONE new weapon for Link, ONE new weapon for Zelda, a new difficulty level, and two foe variants. Where is Sooga?
-BotW2:
I'm not sure yet. BotW1 was pretty but it was shallow as hell and offered nothing to do with no reward. Will this game re-focus and drive the player to actually have rewards that are worthwhile?
And that concludes my views. Here is hoping all is going to go well.
-Smash Bros: Fighter pack 2: Fighter number 5: Kazuya from Tekken.
I'm very loosely connected to Tekken with most of my experience being Tekken 1 and 2. I mained King and Alex so it didn't mean much to me, but a lot of people were stoked for it. I'm glad it's another villain and not meme material and I'm happy for the folks who wanted a proper Tekken Rep.
-Mario Party Superstars:
YES. Holy smokes. The main issue with mario party games is the minigames and how as the series progressed, the minigames stopped being about skill, reflexes, and memory test, and just boiled down to random chance. By going back to the minigames of Party 1, 2, 3, and 4, we return to the GOOD stuff. Online is a bonus.
-Metroid DREAD:
Holy hell... While the focus was on Prime 4 for the last few years, the hopes of a "proper metroid 5" was somewhat buried. Thus, when Metroid 5 was announced, and it was showcased to be a 2d game AND is slated for THIS YEAR, AND is the phantom Dread project? No one was expecting it, and I have to say, I'm beyond happy for it, especially for Metroid's 35th anniversary.
-Monster Hunter Stories 2:
While I've known about it, this direct was the first time some avid pokemon fans have actually even heard of the game and are stunned by what they are seeing. Hopefully this exposure draws yet more people away from the bloated corpse that is pokemon.
-Advance Wars:
Well hell, look at this. Not only is Metroid back, but so is advance wars. Kudos to everyone who has been a fan!
-Age of Calamity DLC:
Weak. So fucking weak. I've 100%ed the game ages ago, meaning all the characters are done, they have top tier weapons with top tier abilities, and all missions, ALL missions, are done. DLC wave 1 hits and... We get ONE new playable character, ONE new weapon for Link, ONE new weapon for Zelda, a new difficulty level, and two foe variants. Where is Sooga?
-BotW2:
I'm not sure yet. BotW1 was pretty but it was shallow as hell and offered nothing to do with no reward. Will this game re-focus and drive the player to actually have rewards that are worthwhile?
And that concludes my views. Here is hoping all is going to go well.
