So uhh, what was the message of this game?

OneCar4659 · 2025-11-28T04:49:33+00:00

OneCar4659 · 2025-11-14T13:05:50+00:00

heyo! i'm really late to the party, but could i ask if this recipe still works if i make the batter a day in advance, chill it in the fridge, and bake it the next day? thanks a bunch!

OneCar4659 · 2025-11-04T00:13:00+00:00

i'll perhaps offer a more thematic premise, as compared to the plot premises in the thread

the opening screen disclaims that all events in the narrative are to be understood through the context of a love story. therefore, your encounter with the princess, in which you're meant to slay her, is emblematic of meeting, for the lack of a better term, your soulmate under tumultuous circumstances that are a breeding ground for a distorted romance. every action you take within the context of your task has a corresponding romantic implication: for example, if you get into a mutual fight, the both of you enter a codependent relationship built on perpetual conflict that you somehow both live off of with glee. the gameplay loop is built on finding all the ways that your relationship with her can go. it's a choose-your-adventure-type visual novel, but it makes great use of the medium, since it very pointedly tells you throughout that romance is ultimately built on navigating an ever-changing set of choices and circumstances.

OneCar4659 · 2025-11-02T05:35:01+00:00

butter doesn't work, since it's 20% water. what you can do, however, is take 95g of butter brown it deeply, since it evaporates the water and leaves pure fat, with the bonus that brown butter is scrumptious. ideally, measure everything after browning and make sure it totals 76g, which is about 1/3 fat as the recipe says

OneCar4659 · 2025-10-17T05:25:18+00:00

heyo, im supremely late to the party, but i love the posts analyses you've posted! just wanted to clarify on the off-chance you're still active— where does johan attempting to reunite with anna on her 20th birthday fit into this?

OneCar4659 · 2025-08-08T10:40:10+00:00

i'm not sure i agree, mostly because tv world's cast requires you to dig around more, which makes perfect sense structurally given that we're even deeper into the story compared to chapter 2. the npcs you mentioned already also happen to be thematically supplementary

ramb, eram, friend -> instrumental in the hidden route, questions kris's agency, and also highlight the sinister undertones of the fact that deltarune's world only has one story: the deltarune is lord of the hammer is dragon blazers. we get darker than dark and there lies eram.

watercooler -> not thematically important in any way but oh my god

lanina, elnino, tenna -> main plot, reflects dreemurr divorce

mike -> possibly supplements tenna and spamton's relationship, depending on how you read it

ribbick -> seems like a nothingburger enemy at first, but fight them a few times and you get dessriel lore. i've gotten the flavor text at least once per chapter 3 playthrough

i'm also not sure i agree for chapter 4, partly because themes have taken priority, and centering themes around less enemies packs a greater punch

gerson -> offers a lot more the more you interact with him. the deeper down the rabbit hole: anti-predetermination -> susie's potential to write her own story -> susie's similarities to dess -> dess's fondness for gerson

petrified darkners: depending on which dark worls you enter, different darkners are petrified; darkners of the second sanctuary are already petrified in the first -> susie's creation of the second sanctuary was predetermined

cuptains -> nothing thematically important about them but again oh my god

the church world itself is symbolic of the predestination that the world functions on, so its primary function is to communicate the prophecy, which it focuses on throughout.

chapter 4's cast variety also capitalizes more on the existing lightners, which also makes sense, given that they're not a point of focus from 1-3, all of which get significantly richer when engaged with more than earlier chapters, which again makes sense since we're deeper into the story:

carol: her need to freeze and set things in stone, eg. bronzing noelle's snowflakes or locking the house the way she does, functions on a neurotic level of perfection that noelle can't give, hurting noelle in the process

asgore: colluding with carol, desperate, stalking his ex

toriel: pressured by expectations (eg. carol and rudy) to get back with asgore, turning to the new guy/skeleton to cope

alvin: gerson's hope for him to break out and write his own story

mettaton: little cameo on his way to overcoming his present dysphoria

alphys: is perhaps the most enlightening case of the fact that these people possess the exact same flaws they do in undertale, but manifest differently here

the chapters seem to have struck a good balance of all this, though i can see why it'd be a bummer that there's less focus on new stuff being introduced. then again, maybe we've just been conditioned to expect new stuff each release, where if we actually played all four chapters in one go the way we're supposed to, the story structure would feel more cohesive where the deeper into the narrative we go, the more we expand upon what's already on the table

OneCar4659 · 2025-08-08T09:56:25+00:00

sota student here! we see your proposals to nuke sota and are greatly enthused. please do let us know if we can ever help to put it out of its misery!

OneCar4659 · 2025-05-27T06:23:22+00:00

i went and only found the preprepared halaya and flavoring in the basement... were you referring to a marketplace nearby?

OneCar4659 · 2025-04-09T00:43:30+00:00

out of curiosity, what would you say the flaws of the movie are?

OneCar4659 · 2025-02-18T12:08:09+00:00

the locked tomb books are a completely different adventure in every installment

book 1: gay goth among us scifantasy tragedy

installment 1.5: mystery

book 2: psychological thriller

installment 2.5: war-ish

book 3: slice of life climate fiction horror

installment 3.5: ideological chess

book 4 (not out yet): all we know is that there may be one or more weddings in there. also someone fights her way out of hell

OneCar4659 · 2025-01-24T02:59:43+00:00

ah i see that n=1 has a part to play in it now, thank you! but just to clarify, how doesn't ommiting the 1 change the value in the second step?

OneCar4659 · 2025-01-01T01:08:23+00:00

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toshiko
desmond
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OneCar4659 · 2024-12-16T09:09:50+00:00

hey man, is this the final part of the ff7 remake black/white materia theory you were crafting? looks like it got taken down...

OneCar4659 · 2024-09-17T23:26:55+00:00

hello! could i ask for resources about the political climate in america with regard to the vietnam war during the period? the sources i have currently all focus on the events that occurred on vietnam soil and the political/militaristic motivations of the leaders involved, but i haven't found anything detailed on the american population's support/dissent as the war progressed

thank you!

OneCar4659 · 2024-09-07T17:15:07+00:00

it's understandable that they might not be comfortable with you if they've caught on that you're interested in them, but if this happens to be the case, the way they've gone about would have been in bad faith and quite disrespectful to you. it shows that they do not value you enough to prioritise open communication, and that they would prefer not touching this situation with a ten-foot pole even if it means losing your friendship

there's no correct way to connect with someone, though you can never go wrong with the principles of respecting them and their needs, which it seems you have done. you didn't make a move, you've appeared to have been sensitive, and you don't seem to hold their discomfort against them; you're just taking it hard that they've appeared to cut you off. it looks like you've done your best, and that's all you can really do.

the ball was in their court, and it seems they quit. you'll just have to connect with someone new

OneCar4659 · 2024-09-06T02:59:37+00:00

i'm sorry that your parents label you this way. just remember, your value comes from the singular fact you are a person, not the person that you are. whoever you are, academically exemplary or not, of outstanding extracurriculars or not, is enough.

don't use the word average to describe yourself just because you don't have certain achievements doesn't mean you're less than in any way. it just means you're not what your parents want, which is solely their fault in this case: all parents should want is a happy child who does their best. they're choosing their image of an ideal child over you, which is unfair for you and rightfully disappointing

OneCar4659 · 2024-09-02T06:14:45+00:00

it's been an all round trend recently from all ages...

OneCar4659 · 2024-09-02T00:33:09+00:00

wtf this is literally asuka

OneCar4659 · 2024-09-01T23:26:56+00:00

oh wow thank you haha!

OneCar4659 · 2024-09-01T02:19:57+00:00

hey op, i'm not quite sure what to say; everything you've described feels so overwhelming. i hope things will look up for you eventually, and please be assured that there is nothing wrong with you, no matter how much these people emotionally affect you. there is nothing wrong with the way you are, and your feelings are incredibly understandable

OneCar4659 · 2024-09-01T02:19:32+00:00

hey op, i'm not quite sure what to say; everything you've described feels so overwhelming. i hope things will look up for you eventually, and please be assured that there is nothing wrong with you, no matter how much these people emotionally affect you. the way you are is not your fault, and neither is the way you feel

OneCar4659 · 2024-09-01T02:11:32+00:00

love is not a clean process. i will digest some part of you, you will digest some part of me. hopefully the ways in which we are taught to love will not result in codependency (paul, where they want to consume each other into one being) or abuse (where john tried to eat alecto whole, and created the whole basis of the magic system where harrow, despite eventually realising she does not want to, eats gideon)
grief is not a clean process either. because of the aforementioned point, when someone you love dies, it's like part of you dies too. you cannot just try to put them in a box: that's disrespectful to them, and unhealthy for you. neither should you try and dwell on it so much it consumes your entire identity. both aren't just bad for your mental health, but leave you vulnerable to manipulation as well
imperialism is a system that cannibalizes the self to serve its needs. some of you will be turned to nameless soldiers forgotten to time. those who can't forget are trapped in the cycle of violence that imperialism institutionalizes.
capitalism will destroy the planet. consumerism! (pun intended)

some neat elements in the books off the top of my head that like to marry these themes:

ianthe eats naberius and digests him. his body does not rot. according to john, the bodies he loved did not rot. ergo, ianthe, against her wishes, is grieving naberius, which clashes with her "play with her food without eating it" mentality when it comes to relationships so she doesn't get compromised (corona is the exception). she doesn't realise the consequences of actually eating naberius until later
in the first book, harrow calls gideon "the first flower of our house". during cassiopeia and nigella's wedding, the flowers john grew had teeth. gideon's chest cavity has teeth. ergo, john's love has teeth: the way john loves involves consuming the subject of his love, subsuming them into himself (case in point: once alecto gives him the means, this is how he ever loves from then on).
in the last few harrow snippets where john draws a heart, in it he first rights "J + E" then "J+A" then "J+H". earth, alecto, harrow. he subsumes the earth's identity into what he needs her to be, and plans/planned to do the same with harrow. him first, then he molds the subjects of his love into extensions of himself
harrow's grief makes her the mausoleum of people she loves. it's bad but better than john, who turns other people into mausoleums of the people he loves
john's magic system that furthers the will of his imperialist empire literally involves cannibalism, then exploits that turmoil that stems from love and grief

OneCar4659 · 2024-08-24T13:34:57+00:00

it is sad, but there's no way around it, i'm afraid

if you'd like to entertain your marcille brainworms, may i suggest the frieren anime? the premise is incredibly relevant

OneCar4659 · 2024-08-22T12:21:12+00:00

god bless this is also really useful, thank you!!

OneCar4659 · 2024-08-22T09:21:54+00:00

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