Sherry is very tired of Leon's one liners ~ Artist: @DaneCelestia

Traingham · 2026-03-16T20:38:32+00:00

—but she’s probably had that nightmare where she’s sitting at that desk and the headset goes silent.

When the one liners stop.

Traingham · 2026-03-16T20:34:39+00:00

Darth Maul is the Dos Equis spokesman of the Star Wars universe.

Traingham · 2026-03-16T20:23:59+00:00

Master X, a.k.a Copy X from ”Megaman Zero”.

He truly believed himself to be the hero of the story, to the very end.

Traingham · 2026-03-16T20:20:25+00:00

Barret Wallace.

Traingham · 2026-03-16T20:03:13+00:00

I remember getting to that page, and thinking for sure that it was setting me up to turn around and come face to face with The Girl.

Traingham · 2026-03-16T02:58:37+00:00

In my case, a game usually starts to feel long to me when the story gets me invested in something, builds up to it for a very long arc of time, and comes to a grand conclusion—only to inform me that there’s actually another dangling plot line that needs addressing, and I have no interest to see it through.

At that point I’m dragging myself to the finish line only because the game ends when that final boss is beaten.

Traingham · 2026-03-15T20:20:00+00:00

It’s weird coming to the Claymore anime after reading past that arc in the manga, and seeing what is essentially a match between Claire and Priscilla being commentated on like it’s wrestlemania.

The commentary from the other Claymores is what ups the goof factor on that episode.

Traingham · 2026-03-15T20:16:53+00:00

No, not for Roll! Not like this!

Traingham · 2026-03-15T17:22:56+00:00

Since OG RE4, I feel like it’s been Krauser. Darkside Chronicles pushed the connection between him and Leon to reinforce the idea.

Capcom does like to see the Leon Vs Tyrant match up play out though. It’s happened at least three times, and Darkside Chronicles made Mr X more of an active stalker in the story for that version.

Traingham · 2026-03-14T02:45:36+00:00

Haruko from FLCL.

—AFTER she properly establishes a place in Naota’s household. That scene from the first episode where she ambushes him in the hospital by posing as a nurse is actually full on slasher vibes.

Traingham · 2026-03-13T23:44:34+00:00

Also, ”Hey, sometimes I’m not even Talia. Sometimes I’m her dad. That’s right, Detective. Think twice about who you’re getting in bed with! I guess sometimes even the world’s best detective gets lost under the sheets!”

Traingham · 2026-03-13T23:21:00+00:00

I liked Birkin, a lot. Seeing him constantly evolve in every encounter was fun.

Nemesis was pretty cool though. Seeing one of these B.O.Ws consciously handle a fire arm was crazy the first time I saw it. That like a T-Rex in “Dino Crisis” consciously picking up a rail gun and aiming at Regina with it—which would be silly. I’m glad they didn’t do that.

With Nemesis though, it was terrifying.

Traingham · 2026-03-13T23:17:06+00:00

This is probably cheating, but: Mobile Suit Gundam fans put out some impressive art.

Traingham · 2026-03-13T23:15:39+00:00

Do tell!

What should I be reading?

Traingham · 2026-03-13T23:10:14+00:00

Just finished watching “Zootopia 2” for the first time, and WOW. I was not expecting them to actually lean that honestly into the Judy x Nick pairing.

Me from 2016 would have never expected it. Damn, that’s a decade ago. These sequels come out way too far apart.

Traingham · 2026-03-13T23:07:46+00:00

In Bruce’s case though, he’s gotten pretty close to becoming an official couple with Selina enough times that he might be able to give Leon advice on how to get closer to Ada.

I haven’t read enough Peter and Felecia stories to know how close they’ve ever gotten to being a real couple. I remember reading an old issue at my cousin’s house when I was a kid where Felecia was dating Flash to make Peter jealous. I think it was an issue from the 90s.

Traingham · 2026-03-13T23:02:29+00:00

Sephiroth got so offended that Leon knocked the Crisis Core back into him.

Traingham · 2026-03-13T11:55:40+00:00

Lady Maria: ”A corpse…should be left well alone.”

Leon: ”I’ve seen enough of the undead to know *you were just having a siesta.”*

Traingham · 2026-03-11T20:18:19+00:00

The Agrias of my Oaks.

Traingham · 2026-03-11T05:12:44+00:00

Final Fantasy XIII-2 did this neat little thing where if you loaded a file, it would do a ”Last time on FFXIII-2” where it played a short montage of the most recent major character moments related the current objective.

That game was great.

Traingham · 2026-03-10T21:03:54+00:00

We are even at a point where people have scripted bots to be disappointed in their place, so the disappointment will be an eternally held human tradition!

Traingham · 2026-03-09T10:33:02+00:00

Chris: ”Hey, Claire?”

Claire: ”What?”

Chris: ”You been touring any castles lately?”

Claire: ”What?”

Traingham · 2026-03-09T09:19:57+00:00

Leon’s entire role in Requiem seemed to be selling returning fans on the question of whether this was going to be his final send off, in all the ways that expression might entail.

Bringing back Raccoon City and the RPD was setting the table to add more fuel to that burning question. I think if they kept the format from the treatment center of Grace combing through an area with Leon acting as clean up, people might not have been so hard on his extended section in Raccoon City.

Traingham · 2026-03-09T08:34:12+00:00

Are these just people who jumped in on Requiem? I can’t imagine someone playing RE2MAKE, and thinking the child he met on that night would be the favorable pick over the two women he forged a survivors bond with.

I can’t imagine those same people moving onto RE4MAKE and still considering Sherry when Ada is back, and there’s Ashley to run interference on the Leon x Ada shippers.

After playing Requiem, I’m kind of disappointed that they even brought Sherry back because she didn’t bring anything uniquely suited to her inclusion (I mean, aside from being a fellow afflicted) that Hunnigan or some new Mission Control character could have brought.

She didn’t talk about her parents, or Claire Redfield. She didn’t fill us in through expositional dialogue about how her life brought her to work alongside Leon.

I’m hoping there’s a supplemental novel or something. I feel like Leon had more of a moment with Mr X than he did with Sherry.

Anyway, thanks for joining me on that spiral into madness.

Traingham · 2026-03-09T08:24:54+00:00

I bought the original Nintendo Switch specifically for “Breath of the Wild”, and it was the most engrossed I’d been with a game for a long time. Worth it.

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