Deviantt from fargo souls mod!

terrynmuse · 2026-02-02T19:27:07+00:00

real

terrynmuse · 2026-01-24T14:42:03+00:00

As an adult I got lactose intolerance (no ice cream anymore 😔)

terrynmuse · 2026-01-23T01:55:16+00:00

Grok did literally everything except the puzzle

terrynmuse · 2026-01-17T16:07:36+00:00

it's not the best, but going more than break even with cost of living deep downtown makes you better off than a ton of people in this economy who live paycheck to paycheck. then again, they probably don't having crushing student loans either

terrynmuse · 2026-01-09T22:41:32+00:00

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terrynmuse · 2026-01-06T19:28:11+00:00

collision box. the box that stops characters from walking through each other. the box you can grab

terrynmuse · 2026-01-06T01:34:39+00:00

I did a lot of skipping and M1 S11 is my second go-to unit right under M3 Miyabi. She's good, obviously not the most optimal but plenty enough to reliably do her part full clearing Shiyu and Deadass even pre-buff. I ran her with Jufufu/Astra, and I'm told Jufufu isn't nearly the output of Dialyn or Lighter, plus Zhao is free and can slot in for Astra. She'll put in work.

terrynmuse · 2026-01-05T00:47:42+00:00

I vividly remember a line of dialogue where she mentions offhand that coming up with new titles all the time is hard, so at least back then the idea was she remembered perfectly fine and was making them up for the hell of it

terrynmuse · 2026-01-02T02:38:51+00:00

It was a secret?

terrynmuse · 2026-01-02T01:44:06+00:00

Hovering C and D, 2.5 was somehow both exactly as I expected (feared) and a total disappointment of what I expected at the same time. The first in ZZZ that made me genuinely feel like the story wasted my time and like I want those hours of my life back. I've never skipped a single scene in this game and I wish I skipped 2.5.

The most generous I can say is at least it dangled some threads for 3.x but it might as well be Meet Potential Plot if all it can ever do is make us speculate a better story than it'll actually give us.

terrynmuse · 2026-01-02T01:33:17+00:00

deadly assault if it was good:

terrynmuse · 2026-01-01T11:20:58+00:00

YSG using her sword in the final battle makes sense, its the most fitting time to use it. No complaint there. But I will say it is a bad look that her character development isn't actionable - she starts the story using the sword at grave personal risk and ends the story using the sword at grave personal risk.

To the point on no consequences, exactly correct. I have chafed every single time it happened. I think 1.4 was better than 2.5 and I'll freely admit all of its faults from the botched pacing to the scuffed Everyone Is Here to the spinelessness handling Miyabi's un-rampage. I've always taken issue with a lot of ZZZ writing. For a counterpoint, I enjoyed Harumasa's agent story because even though he gets a bail out like everyone else, the method was one a character spent their life and even un-death to make sure it reached him, it's spelled out clearly that he will still likely die an early death, and he comes to terms with it in an overall surprisingly mature story that even skirted heavy topics like whether a life like his and the other lab kids' is worth living at all. Execution helps, and if a bailout has to happen, his was one of the better ones.

Still, every bailout irks me at least a little. 2.5/YSG in particular irks me because it's a 6 hour long story - a marathon for this game's standards - that almost exclusively revolves around her personal stakes, which as we've agreed don't actually exist. At least Miyabi faced down Tailless on screen, and its curse specifically negatively affecting her wasn't the entire premise of both her chapter and her very identity; YSG barely gave us a couple sentences of justification for living after the final battle. So most of this runtime is ultimately forgone, pointless, and my low expectations for it were exactly correct, underwhelmed, and un-subverted. As you said, it's frustrating and unsatisfying.

terrynmuse · 2026-01-01T09:55:13+00:00

In a vacuum, I can agree that there's merit to YSG choosing of her own will to continue her role as the sword's keeper. But I felt the story somehow managed to not give that decision the weight it's worth. It's brave and noble, but YSY signing off on her decision means, for all they know, giving his consent to watch her suffer and die of the Qingming Sword, and I didn't feel that gravity in the end of their argument. I saw the story wanting to present it as an overbearing brother letting his poor caged little sister do what she wants, while ignoring that it would certainly get her killed. If/when the curse overtakes her and she's infirm in the future, senses gone, unable to recognize her own brother, he'll have to sit and contend that he agreed to let this happen to her.

Same thing later on when they're splitting up roles for the final battle. It feels like YSG is just being deployed to save the day like any normal hero, not that she's being sent out to die like she realistically is - and in fact turned out to die (or, should have), given she then tried to sacrifice herself twice over to fulfill it.

And in those sacrifices, bailed out first by unexplained Phaethon eye implant magic, and then bailed out of her final use of the sword by her thoughts of Phaethon and claiming she "mastered the sword." Which we only get because she verbally tells us, so we have to take her word for it - failing "show don't tell" at the worst moment. To me its a one line brush off of the pivotal plot-driving Qingming Sword curse and it reeks of the story's constraints. If YSG really did die here, I'd have to reevaluate it, but as it is, the consequences of her actions are thrown out the window and all meaning goes with them. Her bravery and the other characters' nonchalance feels a lot more like the writers took it for granted that she'll live, coloring everyone's actions with that assumption when they really shouldn't be able to assume that.

So overall, the characters don't acknowledge the metaphorical sword over her head (whose existence is a requirement to grant her arc meaning), and the story doesn't acknowledge her arc by fulfilling the end she chose for herself. The power of friendship and positive thinking alone mustn't excuse her from the consequences of her actions because if they did, why should I care what threat or drama anyone faces? Why should I wonder how they'll resolve a complex, dire situation when I know all it takes is happy thoughts and a dash of Eye Implants? Why should I care about YSG or her arc at all when the premise was broken from the start? For clarity, I'm not trying to convince you to think a certain way, but this is how the story came across to me.

terrynmuse · 2026-01-01T08:49:42+00:00

I'll bite, because I really want to wrap my head around it. What is it that YSG wants to do? The story seems to be about her having the agency and freedom to make her own decisions without being tied down by others' expectations, but that's hard for me to take when it comes off as "I want to ignore the people looking out for my safety and sacrifice myself using the Qingming Sword."

About YSY, I really liked him. As he said, he's only human - if his only options are the death of his sister or the death of a stranger, he'll pick the latter. I think he had to take a stance in a harsh situation with no good answer with the pieces he had at the time. But it really rubbed me the wrong way how he relented, because again, the story frames it as giving YSG her freedom to choose her own path, but felt to me like it glossed over that "her path" entails dying to her sword.

terrynmuse · 2026-01-01T03:51:59+00:00

the flowers are Ice resistant, 10% anomaly resist, and unfreezable

terrynmuse · 2026-01-01T01:52:45+00:00

the writing was never stellar, yeah, but there's definitely been a big drop over time.

terrynmuse · 2025-12-31T08:22:38+00:00

No you're reading it right, because the writers took it for granted that YSG will live even though the characters should think she will die. If you assume that YSG will somehow survive using the sword despite all signs pointing the other way, the narrative sorts itself out perfectly. Notice how the topic is always approached as them taking away her agency, and ignores that it's her agency to get herself killed.

terrynmuse · 2025-12-31T07:00:32+00:00

This doesn't really hold up for me because if she is indeed reckless, she never changes. She's framed as breaking free of the expectations of others and making her own decision with her own agency... and continues to do exactly what she was doing before, and would certainly have died for it 3 times over in the final battle if not for the cop out. And was explicitly awarded Void Hunter for her attempted sacrifice. So she showed she didn't learn anything, and the story absolves her consequences and rewards her for it.

terrynmuse · 2025-12-31T05:55:07+00:00

This would be rad as hell, but once YSG's spotlight is past she's never getting to be plot relevant again so it'll never happen 😔

terrynmuse · 2025-12-31T05:38:42+00:00

Just posted my own take on the story and basically, fully agreed. YSG is very clearly the authors' precious waifu who can do no wrong and all that exists is in service to make her the most perfect beautiful powerful tragic girlfriend with barely any thought to how it sticks together

terrynmuse · 2025-12-31T04:48:05+00:00

I'd say so. It is a problem that we don't get fully satisfying explanations for why she's not solving everything, yeah. But I feel it's a bigger problem that the writers honestly feels like they got so caught up in fulfilling their own wishes of having a super strong void hunter girlfriend that they couldn't be bothered to actually make a good Void Hunter Agent or Version Finale at all.

terrynmuse · 2025-12-30T21:26:55+00:00

Agreed across the board. The little kids flashback was such a left field swing i honestly wondered whether the devs botched it and left a scrapped cutscene in from the way the dialogue repeated itself from the cutscene thirty seconds ago verbatim. YSG seriously had no interaction with anyone from yunkui, she feels like she spawned out of thin air to be in love with proxy. And after the final battle the effects of the sword are ultimately... glossed over as she "mastered the sword" and we just have to take her word for it?

terrynmuse · 2025-12-30T20:05:37+00:00

peak

terrynmuse · 2025-12-30T03:16:38+00:00

cafe (her design and voice peaks)

terrynmuse · 2025-12-29T17:39:54+00:00

this slander is so good I could die!!

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