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Madison;Notes@mads-in-zero· 28d

I've never swum with my hair up, but I think doing it with a hair-tie might be a pain for the same reason brushing it sucks when it's wet - letting your hair back down would be annoying anyway... I'm not much of an artist, but I started imagining Ayana with a headband to keep her eyes clear...

Madison;Notes@mads-in-zero· 29d

My favorite little detail this episode is Lara's futon blanket has a pattern like a fish tail. Snrrrk.

Lara lying on a futon in Mari's bedroom. Her blanket has a pink pattern with curved lines that resemble scales.

Madison;Notes@mads-in-zero· Jul 9

People shit on the "be your true self (so long as it's societally acceptable)" read of Persona 4 but the resolution of Naoto's dungeon really does just hit detransition talking points before Naoto agrees that what she *should* yearn for is... Like holy shit this sucks so bad. I'm in pain.

A screenshot of Persona 4. Naoto faces her Shadow and says: "What I should yearn for... No, what I must strive for isn't to become a man."

Madison;Notes@mads-in-zero· Jul 7

I think it's more like

Seinfeld characters hitting the "not that there's anything wrong with that" pose

Madison;Notes@mads-in-zero· Jul 7

#FEMINISM #WOKSUKE

A screenshot from Persona 4 (PS2) showing the party gathered outside the Steamy Bathhouse dungeon, towards the late-middle of the game (20th of the 9th in-game). The protagonist talks to Yosuke, who says "I-I shouldn't... Discrimination is wrong. Yeah."

Madison;Notes@mads-in-zero· Jul 4

At the exact moment the Catharsis Effect appears, a glowing flash extends really far. Imagine Niko's spike stabbing one of the Digiheads and she's like "a-a-aah! O-oh geeze, Niko really goofed it up!" [← Niko would probably have the funniest reaction]

A screenshot of combat beginning in the Caligula Effect 2. The playable party have glowing spikes in different colors through their chests as their combat forms appear.

Madison;Notes@mads-in-zero· Jul 2

Bad news, guys. Rhythm Heaven Groove is officially the WORST game in the series.

a screenshot of metacritic, showing the scores for the rhythm heaven games with a score on the site (all four except the Japan only GBA game). Each game has an 83/100 score, except for Groove, which has 82.

Madison;Notes@mads-in-zero· Jun 27

Hospital slumber party!!!!

Madison;Notes@mads-in-zero· Jun 27

English user-names in this scene, call that a tourist trap.

Madison;Notes@mads-in-zero· Jun 27

deltarune chapter 5 spoilers but out of context but I could only be bothered thinking of one:

Sakutaro from Umineko When They Cry, recolored to be cyan with red accents.

Madison;Notes@mads-in-zero· Jun 24

Since she went into showbiz at a young age, having to perform "as Momona" so different from her normal self could easily have given her a weird sense of identity... Anyway, in terms of evidence for my headcanon that's a little vaguer, her Overdose skill has the English description:

Kiriko's Overdose skill, Kirikirimai, which has the description "Turn that which was one into many"

Madison;Notes@mads-in-zero· Jun 24

Kiriko also talks about Momona like a separate person to her. Maybe that comes across more naturally in Japanese, I don't know, but in English it really stands out. Especially with this WIRE message. She says this kinda out of nowhere. It almost seems like it's something Kiriko is worried about...

The player asks, via text "What's your blood type?"
Kiriko responds: "I'm AB. They say AB people are more likely to have split personalities, but I don't see the link between that and blood type at all."

Madison;Notes@mads-in-zero· Jun 24

So one common thread among the Go-home Club Character Episodes in 2 are they mostly end with finding a middle ground. Gin finds options outside a binary, Shota chills out just a little, and Kiriko's end with... (I'll be using EN screenshots - I'm if it's very different in the Japanese version).

A screenshot of the Caligula Effect 2, the player is given two similar options to respond: "There's a Kiriko within Momona too" or "There's a Momona within Kiriko too".

Madison;Notes@mads-in-zero· Jun 23

I really wanted the second anniversary acrylic stand... she's holding a flower that I think isn't the same as her Catharsis Effect. I think they look like forget me nots... I'm pretending it's romantic [← really likes her] But the throne art is good too, I'm glad to have a chance to get something!

Madison;Notes@mads-in-zero· Jun 23

Wait a second... this Heart to Heart location... damn, that plant really is kinda giant...

An area in Xenoblade Chronicles. A large mushroom is growing out of a tree in an outcropping overlooking a large lake, in a jungle environment.

Madison;Notes@mads-in-zero· Jun 23

But then, even the broken pieces are just an ink-line away from lighting her path forward again. Fuck, it's such a great ED! I love it.

Still in monochrome, the ED shows Coco drawing a single straight line, her specialty, before cutting to...

The broken jar on the stairwell now glows like crystal, lighting up the scene and coloring it, especially her hands and pale-blue dress.

Coco's way forward is lit, and she steps over the broken glass - the sad things - to continue her journey with hope.

Madison;Notes@mads-in-zero· Jun 23

Madison;Notes@mads-in-zero· Jun 23

As per my last email about Iguin floating Coco around being framed... even more ominously in the anime than the manga, I wanna add [currently unnamed in anime Brimmed Cap] pinning Agott down to forcibly tattoo her is... also charged... Like. Like they animated it that way on purpose, right?

A shot of Agott's legs as she twists around on the ground trying to get out of being pinned by a Brimmed Cap's floating cape, its tattered edges coiling like limbs to hold her.

Madison;Notes@mads-in-zero· Jun 17

Just woke up to some amazing notifications.

Two identical DM threads from deleted accounts claiming my account has been temporarily suspended due to "security-related restrictions" - they're hoping to get my log-in details by pretending to be staff

Madison;Notes@mads-in-zero· Jun 11

Elf ears are not universal for the people of this world, you can see rounded ears in a few shots.

A screenshot from the Xenoblade Genesis trailer. Several military academy children cower from an explosion. One of them has pointy elf ears, the others don't.

Madison;Notes@mads-in-zero· Jun 10

Okay it's not the same building but Leukos academy (is that its name?) is also nearby mountains. Which implies one of the school's facilities is just right in the shadow of the unnaturally shaped turbo-mountain. "For today's field trip we will be visiting the Fucking Eldridge or some shit"

Another screenshot from the trailer, showing a school with snowy mountains in the background. The stained glass window above the entrance way is similar to a building visible in the first screenshot.

Madison;Notes@mads-in-zero· Jun 10

Babel Tower.... TWO [remembers the World Tree] okay fine maybe more like three but still.

A shot from the Xenoblade Genesis trailer. A rider on the back of a winged beast flies through the air in front of a mountain range. The mountain resembles an impact crater with a tall rounded pillar at the center.

Madison;Notes@mads-in-zero· Jun 4

The only think worth complaining about in Sanbe's work is that he uses the same faces a lot. He only knows how to draw one doctor... a guy like this was in everything except Puddle!

A doctor from Ch. 1 of "The 13th Footprint" - he has short dark hair, glasses, tall ears, and looks pretty much exactly like two other doctor characters in ERASED and To The Boy I Saw In My Dreams

Madison;Notes@mads-in-zero· May 31

All that said, this moment where Iguin has Coco unconscious... she's found somewhere not quite where we see her last - the cut used to at minimum slip a twinned bottle spell into her inkwell - and she wakes up disorientated and... I can't help but read a lot into this moment, is all.

Madison;Notes@mads-in-zero· May 31

The Brimmed Caps are associated with trees *constantly*, not just the Silverwood. Look at the pillars in the pocket dimension Iguin sticks 'em in, they're like branches up to a canopy... and Iguin has referred to Coco as a seed multiple times. It made me worry how literally to take that...

A masked witch, with a pointy hat and a mask that covers their face, holding Coco aloft in the air, the latter unconscious.

Madison;Notes@mads-in-zero· May 13

xkcd.com/605/

A stick figure comic from xkcd, featuring two stick figure characters.[There is a graph. Time runs along the horizontal axis; Number of Husbands on the vertical graph. Yesterday and today are labeled in time, 0 and 1 in number of husbands. Points are plotted with 0 at yesterday, 1 at today. A straight line is fitted through them, and dotted lines joining perpendicularly the points to the axes.]
[Cueball is holding a pointer to the graph, and looking at Megan wearing a bridal train and veil, who seems to be thinking.]
Cueball: As you can see, by late next month you'll have over four dozen husbands.
Cueball: Better get a bulk rate on wedding cake.

Madison;Notes@mads-in-zero· May 10

So apparently all the bullet hell elements in NieR were inspired by Yoko Taro being a shoot-em-up fanboy, and like, have you ever heard of Ikaruga? Famous shmup with the gimmick of there being b/w bullets, and your ship can absorb bullets of the same color, and swap between black and white.

A screenshot of Ikaruga, showing red-black bullets and blue-white bullets filling the screen.

Madison;Notes@mads-in-zero· May 3

"No, no. We can't make, any health claims but. We can tell the user *exactly* what they need to do."

"Head On", with the slogna "apply directly to forehead" - the marketing heavily implies it's for headache relief, without actually stating that, because it doesn't do anything.

Madison;Notes@mads-in-zero· Apr 20

I mainly know Choco from Chaos;Head, where he designed the DI-Swords, fancy psychic power weapons.

Madison;Notes@mads-in-zero· Apr 18

Nope! Navel/Little Guy (the protagonist of Forensics calls him Little Guy in a very femdom way) was never actually an official Mii, it's just the character rendered in the *style* of a Mii. He's not possible to create with default options.