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Local Eorzean Femboy @t3chw34rslvt.bsky.social · 2d

The masculine urge to resleeve my stack into an eternally hot femboy body and becoming the world’s biggest slut.

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Local Eorzean Femboy @t3chw34rslvt.bsky.social · 3d

tear gas, in all likelihood

Local Eorzean Femboy @t3chw34rslvt.bsky.social · 3d

Reminder that snipers weaponized *math*.

Local Eorzean Femboy @t3chw34rslvt.bsky.social · 3d

.338 Lapua Magnum cartridges judging from the necked down appearance.

Local Eorzean Femboy @t3chw34rslvt.bsky.social · 4d

Dead Fantasy 2’s fight scene by the late great Monty Oum continues to be the Greatest of All Time.

Local Eorzean Femboy @t3chw34rslvt.bsky.social · 5d

Which completely undermines the greatest advantage of humans: an almost boundless empathy and capacity to care for others, even across species, which allows many groups to become greater than the sum of its parts.

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Local Eorzean Femboy @t3chw34rslvt.bsky.social · 5d

Because now what we see is the philosophy of “Everyone, deep down, is selfish, and being honest about being selfish is a virtue.”

Which leads to

“Non-selfish people by definition then, is dishonestly hiding their selfishness for their own gain.”

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Local Eorzean Femboy @t3chw34rslvt.bsky.social · 5d

The philosophical reframing of humans primarily as a selfish individual actor who intrinsically is wired to seek personal gain regardless of cost and that any society is an interacting aggregate of such similar individuals balancing their selfish wants have wrought untold damage to civilization.

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Local Eorzean Femboy @t3chw34rslvt.bsky.social · 5d

Wasn’t the first arc of Barrett in FF7 was that “Maybe blowing things up without thinking of collateral damage was not the wisest choice.”, or am I misremembering things?

Local Eorzean Femboy @t3chw34rslvt.bsky.social · 5d

Mm yeah fair enough. I have found myself humming to the oasis theme every so often myself:

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Oasis

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Local Eorzean Femboy @t3chw34rslvt.bsky.social · 5d

He is in fact very silly some times.

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Local Eorzean Femboy @t3chw34rslvt.bsky.social · 5d

A poster saying “Have you seen him? Now you have!” featuring my ffxiv boy.

Gosh he’s so fucking cute AAAAAAAAAAA

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Local Eorzean Femboy @t3chw34rslvt.bsky.social · 5d

Cosplay community banding together to create a Tifa Lockhart cosplay except with a more “auntie” bent to it.
#TifaLockhart

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Local Eorzean Femboy @t3chw34rslvt.bsky.social · 5d

Ope I meant to write “Pealeaf” instead of Pernelle; she did lend her vocals to “Demogorgon” in the base game though!

Local Eorzean Femboy @t3chw34rslvt.bsky.social · 5d

and their currently seemingly inexhaustible social capital with its fans, there does not seem to be anything that ShiftUp can do wrong, at least in the foreseeable future.

If you read this far, thank you so much and apologies for the meandering series of posts m(_ _)m

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Local Eorzean Femboy @t3chw34rslvt.bsky.social · 5d

And in that sense, it is a massively successful endeavor, which would be a triumphant part South Korea’s revived singleplayer scene with Lies of P being another good recent example.

Time will tell if ShiftUp can follow up their act with their next game, but given the massive impact of Stellar Blade

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Local Eorzean Femboy @t3chw34rslvt.bsky.social · 5d

other small gestures endeared ShiftUp to its fanbase, which is reflected in its stupendous total sales of 3 million units across platforms combined.

Ultimately Stellar Blade is, imo, a game that knows its own strengths and weaknesses and knows its inspiration and the people it wants to devote to.

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Local Eorzean Femboy @t3chw34rslvt.bsky.social · 5d

is a brilliant diegetic integration.

Shame you did not cover the music, easily the best element of Stellar Blade that shone through its production. ShiftUp hiring fans of the game to provide free DLC soundtrack (Pernelle voicing “Just Fine”), integration with SU’s other game Nikke and countless

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Local Eorzean Femboy @t3chw34rslvt.bsky.social · 5d

continue seeking the truth. Should the player collect enough revelatory information regarding the worldbuilding that is scattered through the game, they are rewarded with what one can call the golden ending, satisfying both Eve the character and Eve the player’s quest for truth, and I believe that

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Local Eorzean Femboy @t3chw34rslvt.bsky.social · 5d

Therefore it can then be argued whether or not Eve is meant to be a player stand-in or a realized character in her own way.

I would argue that she is made to be both: an idealized fighting paper doll with curves as a vessel for vicarious thrill BUT ALSO someone with at least a narrative drive to

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Local Eorzean Femboy @t3chw34rslvt.bsky.social · 5d

solely from lack of dialogue choices.

Furthermore while one can absolutely argue regarding the wealth of skimpy outfits and pandering to its intended audience, one should also care about its periphery audiences:

Women, like men, like to look good/sexy, and such outfits channel such aspirations.

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Local Eorzean Femboy @t3chw34rslvt.bsky.social · 5d

as you go through the game. One can make the argument that lack of player input may translate to lack of agency, but on the other hand, this rings less true if the player character one plays is *not* meant to be a self-insert. We do not charge Lara Croft with a flat character in the classic TR games

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Local Eorzean Femboy @t3chw34rslvt.bsky.social · 5d

I would also say that another way to look at her relative lack of emotion and characterization in the first parts of the game in universe as stress response; the game proper began mere days after Eve lost Tachy in the disastrous descent operation. She absolutely start to warm up to Adam and Lily too

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Local Eorzean Femboy @t3chw34rslvt.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you for your review. Another place where you can clearly see Eve having a will of her own is how she would categorically reject some of the quests in the quest board, rendering it unable to even be commenced.

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Local Eorzean Femboy @t3chw34rslvt.bsky.social · 6d

Also I mean recycle the “appearance” rather than the gameplay.