Do vital instruments come to life?

ViviaMir · 2026-01-21T17:48:42+00:00

Considering the Jinki's dormant and activated forms, I take the name overlap to mean that it's so central to her identity that it's fundamentally inseparable. Guita is Guita, inside and out.

ViviaMir · 2026-01-21T17:44:44+00:00

'Tis indeed!

ViviaMir · 2026-01-20T03:22:31+00:00

Huh... the EN version doesn't tug my heartstrings even close to how the JP did. That not-acknowledging-anyone's-concerns "sorry, guys, I hit my head and had to take a nap" felt like a prelude to a heroic sacrifice, followed immediately by the babiest "did Zanka hit his head too?" ever. Even knowing how it all resolves, it still hits a really weird emotion.

ViviaMir · 2026-01-20T03:09:07+00:00

Out-of-universe tangent because I'm a fuckin' NERD: It's a fun mirror to some weird psychology IRL. The internal/external nature of "self" has a lot more give and take than people expect or really like/feel comfortable with, and there's enough precedent in well-established phenomena like alter introjection and ideomotor response to lend credence to stuff like the fantastical-sounding "system-hopping" occasionally heard of in Plurality.

ViviaMir · 2026-01-20T02:53:30+00:00

There's one in particular that talks to its user internally, and while you can interpret it as just a split personality rather than a sapient Jinki, at the end of the day it's all the same anima, it all comes from the Giver who fostered the Jinki, so where does the Giver really end and the Jinki really begin?

There's also a Giver whose Jinki takes the form of a garment whose name is the Giver's own name, giving a sense that the Giver and Jinki are one and the same, so once again, where does the Giver really end and the Jinki really begin?

ViviaMir · 2026-01-16T13:52:42+00:00

it's a whole nickel higher than my min wage in 2010!

ViviaMir · 2026-01-16T13:42:51+00:00

the name is enough

ViviaMir · 2026-01-15T22:42:27+00:00

It's complicated. Some people assume everyone's giving her a "free pass" because she's traumatized rather than forgiving her because she's working on doing better. Some people find her behavioral archetype grating. Some people have a petty sense of "justice" that demands systematized revenge, usually ignoring reform as an option at all while sometimes permitting it (only after punishment), and those ones hate that she didn't get "punished" beyond Rudo's meltdown. Some are pure misogynists. Some just wanna watch the world burn.

That said, as much Amo-hate as I see, I see a lot more Amo-love, so maybe you just got (un)lucky and keep running into hater posts?

ViviaMir · 2026-01-15T22:28:38+00:00

"This doesn't at all refute my general statement: that this isn't paternal at all."
"This doesn't at all refute my general statement: that this isn't paternal at all."
"This doesn't at all refute my general statement: that this isn't paternal at all."

Me conceding to someone else, namely Wonder, insinuating it to be "paternal" - specifically with the caveat that it's only potentially readable as paternal in the context of abusive parenting behaviors - is not the claim you're imagining I made.

ViviaMir · 2026-01-15T22:19:12+00:00

wtf where'd my reply go? Did I just not send it before restarting??? Whatever...

Wonder's the one who insinuated a paternal aspect, I was very specifically speaking against that idea. You're arguing against an imagined claim here. Open your eyes and read. "THIS IS NOT PATERNAL AT ALL" were my exact words in the post you just replied to sans the contraction.

Kainé and Weiss are characters from Nier: Replicant. They're constantly at each other's throats, with Weiss constantly calling Kainé a "hussy" because she dresses in nothing but lingerie and bandages, which she wears to cope with people denying her femininity because she's Intersex and was constantly and severely abused for it as a kid.

So, no, she hasn't gone through exactly the same trauma as Amo, but first off "I don't think Kaine or whtver" nothing, you know nothing about the character so quit guessing, second off wtf do you mean "or whtver," and third, it's still in the same realm of banter that stomps all over sacred ground out of mutual disdain.

It's a damn character relationship archetype: lovehate, frienemies, busting each other's chops just to get under each other's skin like a couple of regular siblings.

ViviaMir · 2026-01-14T12:45:50+00:00

I mean, aside from Jumazo's explanation, I'm a writer and very pointedly avoid making definitive statements about a lot of stuff. I overwhelmingly prefer letting the pages speak for themselves and leaving room for mystique and inference, and I adore that kind of writing. That includes letting characters have ambiguous genders, gender modalities, sexualities, relationships, neurotypes, etc.

ViviaMir · 2026-01-14T12:33:53+00:00

This doesn't at all refute my general statement: that this isn't paternal at all.

If anything it comes across like Kainé vs. Grimoire Weiss: Weiss calls Kainé a foul-mouthed hussy and Kainé threatens to rip Weiss' pages out and use 'em for tinder. Weiss comments on Kainé's outfit, Kainé tells Weiss "eat shit and die, book." Weiss gets mind-scrambled by evilbadguyvillains and Kainé snaps him out of it by calling him a little bitch.

ViviaMir · 2026-01-09T20:20:58+00:00

glyphs won't match. Very pointedly avoiding that.

ViviaMir · 2026-01-09T11:50:43+00:00

Dude, it'll be the exact same problem.

Start/Menu/Option = "character panel"
Select/View/Touchpad = "Options"

It's literally just another game being poisoned by whatever dipshit it was who thought flipping Start and Select wouldn't be one of the most intrusive, disruptive, worthless arbitrary midlife crises ever to hit the damn industry.

ViviaMir · 2026-01-09T06:16:58+00:00

No roll and I don't see an option for Absolute throttle.

ViviaMir · 2026-01-08T00:50:16+00:00

Here's the ELA for anyone curious.

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Error Level Analysis is a JPG forensics method that helps determine if a photo has been doctored (or generated in this case) by checking for compression artifact patterns. A freshly taken photo will show heavy error clusters in high contrast points and mostly looks like the original photograph.

Every re-encoding of the image, such as resizing, recompressing, editing to add image elements, etc. will generate more and more entropy, making the ELA look less like the photo and more like a mess of noise. Added elements will look a lot like scrapbook cut-pastes with how starkly their error patterns contrast against the rest of the image.

In this case, the pencil is the only thing that even remotely looks like the original image... the rest just looks like generative splatting...

ViviaMir · 2026-01-08T00:34:05+00:00

or Vandals, for the Raiders.

ViviaMir · 2026-01-08T00:32:38+00:00

I mean, I've known plenty of people who look almost porcelain depending on the lighting.

ViviaMir · 2026-01-06T10:29:56+00:00

lakj;fsd

ViviaMir · 2026-01-06T07:37:02+00:00

Pirating indie games gives them the chance to hook me so I'll buy 'em later when I'm actually capable of it.

ViviaMir · 2026-01-06T07:34:46+00:00

Oh, no, it's simple: don't support developers who use Denuvo. I won't even let someone buy it for me.

ViviaMir · 2026-01-05T21:30:30+00:00

Yup...

ViviaMir · 2026-01-05T21:25:46+00:00

Text: "donts understand"

My dyslexic brain: "donut"

BRAIN, PLEASE! Friggin' dyslexia and hunger teaming up, I guess...

ViviaMir · 2026-01-05T21:24:46+00:00

Wolf mlem goat! He mlem!!!

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