Aether
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🌟 AETHER 🌟 36 🌟 irl dragon ΘΔ& (she/dragon) 🌟 does an art thing 🔞 i'm a kinky weirdo adult Avatar: Xeirla | Header: Hallowraith 🔗 https://aether.revasser.net
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Body maintenance is so annoying. Why can't I be made of vinyl, a material that famously never corrodes, fades, or tears.
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shaking everyone saying "pfp" like THEY'RE CALLED AVATARS
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this one doin numbers on mastodon but bsky doesn't let me have enough characters
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elevated horror: what if you're grieving your loved one TOO MUCH? 
folk horror: what if a child's disability could EAT PEOPLE? 
supernatural horror: what if your childhood trauma could EAT PEOPLE? 
psychological horror: what if your adult trauma could EAT PEOPLE? 
body horror: what if your gender dysphoria could EAT PEOPLE? 
slasher horror: what if a random guy was trying to kill you, instead of a cop or your boyfriend?
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Playing Earthbound for the first time ever in 2025 is fascinating, actually. You're just a kid and the world's gone mad. All the adults are useless at best or trying to kill you at worst. Everyone talks like a crazy person. Everything's too expensive. Your next door neighbor wants to be a dictator.
Idly reminded of the captchas that require you to move the mouse a bit and it fills a progress bar...
I think it's really funny and sad that GF honestly probably copied the "arm rests" on park benches without awareness that's anti-homeless architecture, simply because that's how benches look in some places.
More broadly how much do captchas even stop bots anyway, they're regularly annoying for real users, and then we have the ones that are supposedly for transcribing old books, but you gotta have the *right answer already* to make a valid captcha out of them.
I was idly thinking "we should change captchas to as "I'm real" to support those not human" but there's also those that would like to be imaginary so that doesn't quite work either.
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Microsoft hates computers AND everyone who uses them, whereas Apple only hates computers, and Linux only hates the people who use them. In this essay I will
Realising as I think about this, that if Pokemon had voice acting people would eventually expect:
a) the pokemon to be dubbed (+FIGS!)
b) random trainers to be dubbed, including "Go, X!"

... and the latter would be truly herculean because it's much more complicated compared to voicing random mooks.
Okay I should really be asleep but please everyone don't burn down the website over weird video game takes while I'm gone.

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I mean I don't *terribly* care if this website vanishes, Mastodon is better, but it would be kind of annoying.
While I'm not sure if there's a subculture exactly, it's only recently (in the last year or two) I feel we've started to see some new VAs in video games, whereas before you often saw the same, like, 12 people turn up everywhere, which I feel has its own effect on video games but I'm not sure what.
That was going to be my next thought, a like, over-enunciation, over-acted cadence that doesn't read as natural speech. (Though you can also get the opposite, that brief period where people were saying actors were mumbling too much on TV.)
Is it an accent thing? Like, the general trend of accent/dialect for localisations (especially out of the US)? Or possibly even mispronunciation of Japanese words/names some dubs do?

(My own perception of dubs is weird because of the over-presence of US accents in english media in general.)
Like I agree text-only dialogue requires a different direction approach and maybe Pokemon doesn't always pull it off but the framing of this feels a bit silly.
Strangely enough I've had the reverse feeling before - Kingdom Hearts used to have minor NPC interaction be text only and button-advanced. KH3 it's entirely automatic and voice acted, even minor interactions, and I felt *that* could be an accessibility problem.
"If any other game pulled what they do with pokemon it would be eviscerated" but they DO! People complained about TREE TEXTURES in SwSh!!
look I'm a weirdo and weird things activate brain things
"I updated my pfp" yeah that's sound of you getting a pump from an air tank.
Literally every website is calling them avatars in the profile UI! Every forum calls them avatars! They've always been avatars! god DAMMIT
shaking everyone saying "pfp" like THEY'RE CALLED AVATARS
I think pooltoy furries should take the poolrooms from the backrooms people and make it horny.
future art commission idea
PANEL ONE: "hell yeah I am now a toy, immortal and unending"
PANEL TWO: said toy now sunbleached, covered in wear blotches, and tape repairs
Body maintenance is so annoying. Why can't I be made of vinyl, a material that famously never corrodes, fades, or tears.