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There are objectively people who Maruki does not consider their wish, such as Akechi

I think it's my fault for totally derailing this topic by bringing up Royal

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After the set. Went hard

Rai_Jin posted...

sociopath

ASPD can be managed and treated with therapy

This is dollar store content.

It's actually pretty interesting that so few superheroes can hit this criteria. Cuz I wonder how this came about

It was do dumb in Yakuza 0 where Majima yells "NOBODY LEAVES ALIVE" to the room full of goons after his waifu dies, and then in the next cutscene a guy is like "no majima if you kill this man you'll lose a part of you"

Seems like a steep learning curve to this game. Sophia has a perfect mechanic with her yoyos for example. But I still don't have a good grasp of the basic mechanics. Like it's not clear when an enemy needs to be all out attacked to die vs when it can just have its health dropped to zero.

How can you possibly concentrate on saving the world when you have this waifu app humming and swinging her legs around >_>

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their ship is so obvious

It looks more like he startled at her gasp.

BurmesePenguin posted...

Morgana: I wanna be human

Maruki explicitly handled the phantom thieves differently than he did society at large, though. He granted each of their deepest wishes for the purpose of winning their favor and support.

Not that this is really a hill to die on wither way though lol

I think it's more likely he would rewrite previous experiences of their life so they have no reason to see their sexuality as something to struggle with. Sumire wasn't quite consistent with his later full power rewrites since back then he only had the power to affirm the cognition people desired

Like when Yusuke's art classmate was bad at art, Maruki didn't actualize him to be good at it. Instead he left the kid's core self alone and rewrote history to have him try a discipline he was better suited for, archery.
It wasn't quite within the game's scope to examine how Maruki would approach broad fiscal and cultural policy though, for better or for worse. (I raised an eyebrow that the homeless man was still at the subway)

Everything in your post is right. He's still not a psychopath. The fact he is trying to make people happy based on how they would feel precludes him from being one.

Like I'm not saying what he did is good. I'm talking about his motivations and thought process, which are what make him an interesting character, and not just a function in a scenario.

an empath is someone who is extremely in tune with and empathizing or compassionate of other people's feelings. Psychopathy is the absence of empathy and a lack of usual emotional responses to stimuli. Maruki's distorted desires stem from his overwhelming grief and compassion for Ruri so this is pretty open and shut

AceMos posted...

but gets upset the moment they dont do what he wants them to

Dude with the power of god gives you like two months to ruminate on his point of view and to come challenge him about it if you disagree. Not saying he is not manipulative, and there is nuance to his characterization and actions, but he is so for the purpose of realizing what he believes to be utopia.

AceMos posted...

the royal villain is a psychopath who violated sumire

He is definitionally not a psychopath, as a matter of fact he is an empath, the exact opposite.That doesn't mean he's in the right, and he doesn't need to be in order to be compelling.

ArtiRock posted...

Maruki acts as almost a foil to Joker.

Yep thanks for reminding me even more what a masterpiece this expansion was
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AceMos posted...

persona 3s big bad is far better

Persona 3 big bad is... the end. Which is cool, but does not have much character in itself, rather it is the very avatar of adversity so as to further spotlight the struggle of the protagonists.

BurmesePenguin posted...

it still very much feel like a meandering bonus act to a play that already had its ending.

I found the premise and presentation of it engaging enough to overcome the pacing issue it necessarily introduces. On top of that, IMO it provides new and better final character development for the cast. I love how the new Persona awakenings are combination of their original and new to show how they must accept everything that's happened to them yet move forward. I love how the new ending is constructed to force them to follow through on the consequences of rejecting Maruki by having the cast all need to move away from Shibuya and move on. I love how Akechi is used.

I just find it a whole step more mature and thoughtful than the original game, while also being an extension and elevation of the themes and ideas the original explored. For me that outweighs how the game ends up having like 3 final boss dungeons.

BurmesePenguin posted...

The royal scenario is bad and feels as needlessly tacked on as it literally is.

The original final villains of P5 are two of the least interesting in the series (cartoon villain who's so evil, the first time you see him is him assaulting a woman; and another generic false god). Royal antagonist is the best in the series.

The thieves saving a good person from himself >> beating up yet another 2d cartoonish evildoer.

AceMos posted...

i actually found that rather weak to be honest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf1gHqritRQ

Royal chapter secures P5 as best in the series

Mishima's confidant is one of the worst because it's literally the only time someone is being terribly bullied and harassed and Joker does not give a shit.

Literally everyone else: Oh no I'm being exploited and scammed by someone but I'm powerless to stop it!
Joker: NOT ON MY LIFE

Mishima: My lifelong bullies are still bullying me and I have no friends, even the guys whose online PR I do merely tolerate me.
Joker: I don't care, I merely tolerate you

Joker will physically stand between any other confidant victim and their abuser but when it happens to Mishima he just sits there and watches. And finally the shadow he does confront is Mishima himself, whose shadow already knows he's done wrong and who has basically just been coping.

All the phantom thieves act like Mishima is this huge annoyance but he's unironically not as bad Yusuke, who stalked Ann to ask her to pose nude for him, and who becomes a friend of the group simply because he happened to enter the metaverse and gain a Persona.

There's also no 'incorrect' dialogue options for Mishima's confidant options and the majority of them are about scorning or negging Mishima in some way. The developers' hands are really visible as they push you to dislike him. It reminds me of the guy with the 8bit palace in Persona 4 who they intentionally made weird and with iris-less eyes so you forget about the theme of the game and just scorn him.

I have absolutely no idea why people are obsessed with Hifumi.

Kyle1022 posted...

Yusuke is supposed to stay the poor art kid. It's an anime gag. Don't take it too seriously

Tropes are lame

She owns the company or at least a supermajority stake IIRC, but regardless, as soon as Okumura died all his liquid cash became hers.

Haru is a wealth hoarder who let her poverty friend lose cell phone service

She only took you to Disneyland because it was already booked by a company that canceled and she was able to come alone anyway

Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon beats every BEWD variant

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dameon_reaper posted...

Makoto is probably called Queen because of her role as student council president.

Don't they basically say it's because she's a 'girlboss' when they name her. It's straight up 'woah she's so cool and smart and assertive'

The gang left Morgana in a dirty attic to fly to Hawaii and then didn't buy him a gift after they promised to

Dude's literally a horny guy trapped in the body of a cat let him have some angst

I definitely felt the same way the first time I played. If she hadn't originally been so vindictive to you OR she'd been allowed to apologize it would be better. But on top of those two issues they have the gall to call her Queen

Also THE shipping moment in the original is when she clings on to Joker when she gets scared in Futaba's house. No other character gets a moment like that outside social links or until Yoshizawa in Royal

She is weirdly romanticized. She's an absolutely horrible and typically remorseless person.

His fucking name is genuinely Eoboard Thawne. I thought TC meant to write "more petty and evil than" and autocorrect just fucked his shit up

GiftedACIII posted...

lol isn't this just a satirical shovelware? Why is DF reviewing it?

I dont think you're using satirical correctly

Is it still worth watching the first two seasons?

Still not sure if you intended the punchline pun Cyric

https://www.businessinsider.com/rfk-jr-dinner-farting-new-york-doug-dechert-2024-2023-7?amp

BI cites New York Post which is a bit of a rag, but OP's source claims they independently were there and saw the same exchange. So it seems real

When my family moved this mattress I'm using they folded it and it ended up with long deep fissures going across the mattress that are really uncomfortable to sleep on.

Error1355 posted...

Because the TC just made this up in his head.

Damage control already starting!! /s

ArchonKnight posted...

Yes, you can in Account Activity

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EmilyTheCEman posted...

We should be able to hide right from the topic list so I dont need to accidentally read some of the GUY RAPED AND MURDERED CHILD OP before clicking hide.

I get what you mean, that's the number 1 kind of thing I hide so I don't have to keep being reminded

I wonder if there's a way to see how many active topics I have hidden

Most 5e classes are like "level milestone? you can now blow up a castle by blinking" and then Monk is like "you can now eat less"