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I never got around to writing stuff about Sony’s E3 cause by that point I was both too sleepy and too unimpressed. Here’s a summary of that + Nintendo.

  • The opener and musical numbers for Sony were awkward. I get why they did it, but they were still awkward.
  • Looking forward to Nioh 2 and surprised it’s coming so soon.
  • Resident Evil 2 remake looks bad, and that’s even setting aside how it’s yet another case of Capcom putting Leon on a pedestal and treating Claire like a minor supporting character for his story.
  • Death Stranding is still weird, but I find myself wondering if it’s ever coming out.
  • Control looks cool and I’m glad I’ll be able to play another Remedy game. Though I wish they’d do another Alan Wake entry.
  • I’m glad Nintendo appears to be actually acknowledged Samus Aran’s value now, both in her placement on the roster and how much they included her in the Smash Bros stuff.
  • I also like that they’ve returned Samus to being more muscular and toned down breast size from what was clearly the “give her more sex appeal” attitude.
  • On the flip side, Zero Suit still has the stupid high heels. No.
  • I also don’t know if they’re keeping the stupidly reduced height from original 6′3″ to that 5′ something (I think it was 5′0″?) that they went with more recently to make her smaller and shorter than the men around her.

That’s pretty much all I think I had to say. I was overall pretty disappointed in Sony’s conference.

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the-wolfbats:

lasrina:

alpacamyhedgehog:

marthawells:

obovoid:

i don’t want to achieve equality by sinking to men’s level, i want them to get on ours! why should i have to unlearn the conversational art of waiting my turn, unlearn sexual self-restraint, unlearn trust in others’ good intentions, unlearn the impulse to cater to others’ needs, just to have a chance at success among savages? why can’t the men learn some fucking manners so we can all conduct our affairs in a civilized manner? i shouldn’t have to stop saying sorry, you say sorry!

In the 80s when I was in my freshman year in college, they still had entirely separate mens and women’s dorms. I was in class waiting for a final to start and one of the guys was telling someone about how he had had to go into a women’s dorm to drop something off, and he was startled to see posters on the walls, flowers, curtains, etc. He said his men’s dorm had holes in the walls, things on fire, fights, guys walking around with open wounds and he just didn’t understand why they had to live like this. He said, “I want to live with the women, in civilization.”

Am reading Sisterhood of Spies, about women working for the OSS during WWII. One of the stories mentions that the women in London had a male visitor who would eat in their mess hall once a month. He was married and wasn’t interested in hitting on any of the women; he just wanted to eat in an atmosphere where people said “Please pass the butter,” instead of “PASS THE GODDAMNED GREASE”

I dated a guy who brought me along on group activities (movies, video game night, etc.) with four or five other male friends. Once I mentioned to one of the other guys that I hoped I wasn’t intruding on their “guy time” or some such. He got this sort of rueful look and said, “The truth is, I really like it when you’re here because it gives us a reason to act better. When it’s just guys, we all have to try to outdo each other with how vile we are.”

So the moral of these stories are men don’t even treat each other like human beings.

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alexvsinternet:

tahthetrickster:

tahthetrickster:

when you walk past your cat’s food bowl and they start screaming at you even though you both know full well you put food in there barely an hour ago

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this is a good post bc all the tags are just ppl @‘ing their cats, who are not even on tumblr to defend themselves

@sooty

What I love even more is when the @ tags an actual Tumblr account. I find myself imagining the person who gets the notification thinking “WHAT DID I DO?!?!?!?!”

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some-like-it-luke-warm:

historical-nonfiction:

When trains were introduced in the U.S, many people believed that that “women’s bodies were not designed to go at 50 miles an hour,” and that their “uteruses would fly out of [their] bodies if they were accelerated to that speed.”

I have so much respect for historical women not murdering every man they know

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Another day of E3.

  • Not surprised Squeenix still hasn’t announced something to undo 3rd Birthday. As I said, they like to bury their mistakes and refuse to fix them because their egos matter more to them than any semblance of integrity.
  • Dance number for start of Ubisoft was fun. Ubisoft is always the dorkiest conference of E3.
  • Loooooooooooove Kassandra for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey! I can’t wait to play the game as her. Tough warrior woman that takes no shit.
  • Also love that it appears there might be a chance for Kassandra to romance Kyra. I’m assuming Alexios can romance men too.
  • Just plain love the Assassin’s Creed is making it possible to select gender this time. Evie was awesome in Syndicate and I was disappointed when it didn’t seem possible to do the same for Origins.
  • Skull & Bones looks more interesting this year than I remember it last year.
  • Beyond Good & Evil 2 also looks awesome. I like that it’ll be possible to submit stories and potentially see them in the finished game. I may actually try it (not with this name of course).
  • Transference is going to be pretty trippy. It was a real Phantasmagoria vibe to it, and I mean that in a good way. I fuckin loved Phantasmagoria.
  • I still need to play For Honor. I bought it for PC but my PC can’t handle it well, so I either need to get off my ass and upgrade the graphics card or else get it for PS4.

Sony is in less than an hour. Here’s hoping for good stuff! Or at least not having to see the current non-Tomb Raider “Tomb Raider” junk again after it’s already been covered in two conferences.

I expect more Death Stranding. Really hoping a sequel to Horizon is announced. A new Mortal Kombat entry would be good right about now as well; it’s been 3 years since the last entry.