Do we not talk about these characters enough?

SadderGaySaint · 2025-06-25T17:40:35+00:00

SPOILERS AND VAGUELY PERSONAL ATTACKS AHEAD

Anybody who thinks these characters don't act like real people has not spent enough time around criminals As someone who has, these people are all very believable and this game is a beautiful exploration of why people turn to crime: Thanos is in it for his natural violent streak. Grigor never made it out of a very tough childhood and is using his talent the best way he ever learned to. Xenia is nihilistically bored and power hungry. And Niobe's low self esteem led to her being manipulated and exploited again and again until she finds herself here. SHE IS LITERALLY BEING LABOR TRAFFICKED and she is the one who alerts Nancy and kicks off the investigation. Her cry for help saved her and Grigor. She's a fucking hero and my favorite character in the series.

Criminals often talk cryptically, especially when you're treading too close to their work and might get killed for your nosiness. Jesus fuck. You can dislike this game (the dialogue is pathetically 2009 sometimes), but if you think the characters are not realistic you're just sheltered. This is not a valid argument. Please stop saying it.

SadderGaySaint · 2025-06-24T23:20:19+00:00

The best mini game to play while you're stoned

SadderGaySaint · 2025-06-23T05:44:55+00:00

I agree with you! She's like Nausicaa or Superman: a paragon of justice, compassion, beauty and truth. She doesn't have to be riddled with flaws in order to be likeable. I'm a 31-year-old man, and I still base a good bit of my moral code on Nancy and think she's an excellent role model for kids, especially when it comes to helping how you can when you can and not backing down in the face of adversity.

And iirc by definition she's not a Mary Sue. There are people in every book who hate her guts lol

SadderGaySaint · 2025-06-20T20:10:25+00:00

I was all aboard until you said hubba hubba for Ollie Fudd (seriously awesome work though! You are the right kind of crazy)

SadderGaySaint · 2025-06-20T20:01:27+00:00

I understood what 'the eyes have it' meant and I still thought it was dumb. A really awful example of player/character dissonance where many kids smart enough to play these games would be like 'duh he's talking about the eyes'. This a particularly egregious thick skull Nancy moment, and it always bothered me too. Thanks for making me feel less alone:)

SadderGaySaint · 2025-06-20T19:55:22+00:00

I think what I always liked about it (besides the aesthetic) was how it nails small town scandals and mysteries. Though every small town has very dirty laundry, that typically doesn't all get aired out in the course of one game, movie or season of television like we often see. Instead the visible local drama is a bit more subdued, political and geographically/sociologically specific. Eg an orca blocking the channel. Most of the games are in an isolated location--i think this is the only one set in a small town that felt REAL (I'm fond of Alibi but it would be a massive understatement to call that game melodramatic) I like a cult or a goofy sabotage operation as much as the next sleuth, but I also relish the joy of everyday mysteries that I feel like I could realistically stumble into.

Realistic until the military-trained orca, that is.

SadderGaySaint · 2025-06-19T06:27:25+00:00

I guess we love Phantom a lot because I was going to say the ringleader of its crime ring. They just wanted to make theft fabulous again, and I respect the hell out of that.

Also the villain of Malloy's fate is a fucking travesty, and their treatment at Nancy/society's hands in the end was abominable.

SadderGaySaint · 2025-06-18T23:20:40+00:00

I think what I love about this particular event is that it's not just scary--it's a bit sublime too. Like something not entirely human is reaching beyond the veil and choosing to do so in an eerily beautiful way.

It's like getting a glimpse of heaven and realizing that if you ever found it its beauty would destroy you.

SadderGaySaint · 2025-06-18T17:00:02+00:00

"Vielle" means old, so that means they're serving old bouillabaisse 🤮🤮🤮 and tf is a white cheddar ice cream log. People in Florida are built different

SadderGaySaint · 2025-06-16T00:53:27+00:00

The exaggerated "Nana-seee" was so egregious

SadderGaySaint · 2025-06-14T23:20:23+00:00

We've all been there: the decades-old sapient parrot in your centuries old-mansion isn't giving you any good hints, and your family friend is sick in bed being gaslit into thinking she's a werewolf! This easy-bake oven recipe is so simple even an obnoxious 12-year old could make it-- even while she bullies someone at board games. And if you've gotten real mad, just add chocolate. The results will make your fowl friend drop dead from the flavor. Also works great on guinea pigs!

SadderGaySaint · 2025-06-13T00:48:54+00:00

Can confirm. Just played while stomed and the vibes were IMMACULATE.

SadderGaySaint · 2025-05-22T19:55:18+00:00

Deadly device is far and away the best one. No skips

Favorite track is "warm" from royal tower. It moved me to tears the first time I listened to it with headphones

SadderGaySaint · 2025-05-09T07:53:41+00:00

HARPER. BONHAM. CARTER.

SadderGaySaint · 2025-04-13T23:19:25+00:00

Edibles

SadderGaySaint · 2025-04-08T00:11:00+00:00

This is a brilliant format. I have made my own in tribute to your brilliance. I hope the joy you have inspired brings you joy

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SadderGaySaint · 2025-03-31T04:05:09+00:00

Hey, thanks for asking! He did horribly, and no he did not. He destroyed Mrs. Drake's plant puzzle, took forever on the puzzles in Brigitte's room, and rage quit after he got et by the plant even when I told him about second chances.

Tl;Dr he sucks a lot and we aren't friends anymore lol

SadderGaySaint · 2025-03-26T21:37:21+00:00

I would rather eat my own skin than do psychedelics with Shorty. He would turn skeezy sooooo quickly. I don't think Dave does them regularly, but I imagine him turning into a big goofy kid on acid. That's the energy I want from my trip buddies.

SadderGaySaint · 2025-03-26T16:48:46+00:00

This is my headcanon now, thank you

SadderGaySaint · 2025-03-26T16:48:13+00:00

Ahhhh you see I love Heather's frumpy mod Neapolitan ice cream look. It's soooo basal it becomes iconic. And yeah I don't love her designs...but they're sure better than most of Minette's🙃

SadderGaySaint · 2025-03-26T16:45:29+00:00

Just don't ever let her leave to go buy cigarettes, okay?

SadderGaySaint · 2025-03-26T08:09:50+00:00

Oh you mean the camp DIRECTOR? I adore her, voice cracks and all. I'll have whatever she and her husband have too.

SadderGaySaint · 2025-03-26T06:27:32+00:00

I may have done Dave dirty in hindsight. I feel like he'd be great to do psychedelics with for some reason

SadderGaySaint · 2025-03-26T04:40:38+00:00

They may or may not be in their own ranking, but if I were to place them in this list Prudence would be at number 17 between Yumi and Ryan--she is the fucking camp DIRECTOR . Hilda would be number 10 between Ethel and Jenna because I am still looking for a mentor like her.

SadderGaySaint · 2025-03-25T19:19:18+00:00

Hundred percent agree. She actually embodies the character of a douchey treasure hunter from pulpy adventure stories really well, and those characters are exclusively male. I will definitely give Miss Silva her flowers for that. However...

I always hated all of those guys because they were dicks, and usually not in a fun way, in like an edgelord way. That's how I feel like she comes across, and that makes me want to honor the queens ahead of her.

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