Andrew (Ape)

@specialagentape.bsky.social

Musician of @Torch60.itch.io (play Astra Hunter Zosma on Steam!) agentape.bandcamp.com Romhacker (PMD Wii Translation, GB->GBC conversions, others) DK Vine staff! Idaho Crew streams most Tues (twitch.tv/dkvine) & Wed (twitch.tv/specialagentape) 5PM PST

I like that because of the MMO framework in FF14 my character is just constantly being talked up by every NPC and all I can think every time is him bashfully blushing every cutscene going "Oh, stop"

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I think comfort characters are good to have and share honestly even if inevitably people will get weird about them and push buttons about you liking them. It's something I appreciate more when I'm struggling socially, I like that I can boot up my favorite game or show and not be judged for a while.

I think I'm just too old and tired for bad faith fandom arguments. I feel like even a few years ago, I'd be all in and ready to debate and argue and jump in the fray but my response nowadays is usually to disengage and I don't know if it's just the state of the world leading to not caring or what.

I miss when video game sales numbers weren't a public spectacle honestly, I saw a 40 minute video discussing sales numbers for square enix games and I watched like 2 minutes before going "wait, I'm not a shareholder why should I give a shit if it sold or not"

I kind of think about sometimes how if I had the agency as a kid to buy things I wanted I would basically be buying the same stupid shit I do now like figures and games and the only thing that changed is my ability to make my own money (and also I guess a better ability to keep my belongings nice)

Layoffs and mismanagement have done so much damage to game companies' goodwill that I sort of feel bad for the people in charge of different studios' social media who are comically and transparently navigating a maze of landmines and avoiding obvious elephants in the room every time they post

I need to write music more but it's hard to find motivation when it's not really for any project or anything. But I also don't really have the wherewithal lately to make my own projects it should go to. I dunno.

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