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I (21) was in a group chat with two people, one being my close friend. They sent to a group chat what was a Yumeshipping post of someone celebrating Francine Smith’s (a character from American Dad) birthday to the extremity of buying what seemed to be streamers, a possible body pillow or cut out of the character and a lot of made food and other decorations to celebrate it.

In response to this post I said that to me I find it personally weird as it seems parasocial and that it could lead to further extremities if unchecked like confusion from reality and fiction, obsession, anti socialism by replacing real life relationships with the fictional relationship and or possessiveness. Now of course I realise this whole shipping culture has a fandom and I’m not by any means a hater of it I just particularly find it odd, and when I said that to my friend it caused a drama which they said I started because they called my words of judgement an “attack” on Yumeshipping as this particular friend is themselves a Yumeshipper of themselves with a fictional character. They said they are inspired to be that level of Yumeshipping from the post, they’ve claimed that they’d like to build a shrine to a character which to me seemed bizarre and just confusing. Don’t get me wrong I absolutely love fictional characters, I read comics and other things but I’d say I draw the line at shipping myself with them because they simply don’t know I exist and it seems incredibly over the top for me.

After the back and fourth I said countless times that if it isn’t hurting anyone than I believe it is okay but I still don’t personally like the idea of it simply because it’s not what I’m in to but I did claim I think shrines and birthday celebrations with food, streamers etc are simply too far. They then went as far as to say to me “it’s the same as people saying gay people is unhealthy or un-natural.” Which to me was a big blow as I grew up in a household where I had to keep myself being bisexual a quite topic as I would get judged for it by my fathers ex partner.

Since all of it I have written a formal apology, in short I wrote that I am sorry if I hurt you but I won’t stop what I think as it’s just my personal opinion but it doesn’t mean I necessarily hate it as opposed to just not liking it. It’s almost been 3 days of them leaving me on delivered but they’ll text the group chat they’re in with my partner in it and they’ll view my social media stories. All in all they claimed I was attacking people for something that’s helping them mentally and I explicitly stated I’m not implying any attack, I just don’t think it’s always healthy, I had to reiterate it multiple times and they just didn’t seem to grasp what I was saying. They’re the only close friend I’ve had in the last year and I fear being compared to a homophobe could be the cherry on top to the end of a friendship which is unfortunate because I barely socialise. TL;DR: I told my friend I think Yumeshipping is weird due to thinking it can become unhealthy, but I apologised regardless and said we’ve argued over worse stuff which they’ve disregarded me for but they compared me to a homophone and still won’t answer me.

Is it worth starting a petition for new game plus? What would be the best way to create one if so? I feel like NG+ is essential for Arkham or Arkham-like games.

No, Jacksepticeye doesn’t need to be cancelled over a poorly timed joke. However why are we all defending him like he did nothing wrong? I disliked Charlie Kirk, I’m a left winger, I’m also not American though. But why don’t we let the dead remain dead and move on? He had kids who were innocent who have to grow up looking at this stuff, for all we know they could’ve been fans of the Jacksepticeye channel if they were old enough? The common argument “he had no empathy so why would we” is contradicting, we’re meant to be better for the next generation of society and children who learn from us. Why stoop to his level of morals and lack moral empathy and human decency? Mocking a persons brutal death is absolutely sickening, it’s inhumane and barbaric. It’s unacceptable. We’re meant to be a community who gives people chances to change, people from white power groups have changed, politicians have changed, homophobic Christian’s have changed. We have no right to decide on someone deserving death or not. Sean was in the wrong but the moment is over, he doesn’t need to be cancelled but we shouldn’t be defending him or any jokes made about it. End of.

Ok so last post was worded poorly but it also had some very negative reactions based on just assumptions as well. I indicated that I am passionately excited for this game and I still am and although I might’ve not worded it properly, people still took it far out of proportion. So anyways here is my Wishlist and things that I could only hope to be in Marvel’s Wolverine if it won’t already be in it.

- Permadeath mode:
As we’ve seen in games like The Last of Us, Outlast and Assassin’s Creed Mirage, a Permadeath mode would add a great challenge and it would seem entirely fitting for a game centred around The Wolverine. It would make for amazing streaming opportunities, reaction videos to losing significant progress and good past times and personal challenges.

- Arcade/Horde mode:
Similar to the Arkham games with AR mode and Days Gone with Horde mode, it would be essentially what I’d hope to be like a mode to choose map, possibly character and suit to just go absolutely ham, weather it be stealth or brute force it would be awesome to have a mode like said games where you have either a time limit and or optional challenges with a score rating or even just an unlimited waves mode to see how far you can go. I know I’d love it and being able to blast some rock or metal while playing it would really add some depth to that feeling of “being the Wolverine”.

- Dialogue reactions to your minor actions:
I think of this kind of like the loud or silent approach from GTA 5 and other games I’m not remembering where depending on your approach to a scenario in terms of combat, npc’s you work with will react to how you go about doing it.

- Collectibles:
Again, similar to games such as TLOU, Uncharted and Spider-Man (2018), collectibles would add so much world building if Logan maybe comments on it and it makes him reference past events or other pre-existing characters. It would be neat and defintely a must have for any completionist out there (such as I). Definitely one of the top wishes on my Wishlist.

Anywho, feel free to agree, disagree or add on to what you’d like to see in Marvel’s Wolverine, as of now it’s only 8 days away and I’m extremely hyped.

It got a 60fps update how long ago now and the cloth physics don’t move at 60fps. Unity has that all going though so I’m unsure what’s preventing them from updating syndicate to work the same? I play on console too so I can’t exactly mod it unfortunately.

With all the controversy I feel morally guilty but I’ve got my eyes on the new ministry of magic and buying Lego second hand feels so weird to me. Is there a way I can buy HP Lego without compromising my morals?

With the Batman Trilogy obviously not just being movies but also comic movies I’ve felt that it could take some inspiration from Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Spoilers from Spider-Man: Brand New Day: >!In the opening montage we see Spider-Man take down villains in a very comic-like way as a homage to what bought his character to life in the first place, not just that but we see him age throughout the montage as we clearly see the cycles of different seasons change,!< now what if The Batman Part III did something similar, it could have Bruce aging with an opening montage (as Robert Pattinson will be nearing his 50’s by the time is would presumably release), it could be something of him taking down crime syndicates and beating common Gotham thugs to minor villains who could be realistically interpolated by Matt Reeves, I think it would be really neat to see a Bruce who is graying around the sides of his hair who is getting slower in his age. I also think some sort of instrumental music would complement a montage like that too. I am aware Bruce is meant to be in his earlier years for this but Matt Reeves did state it would only be a trilogy I believe so it could be nice to have a movie that has closure to this universe since it won’t be canon to the DCU. I just think a montage of an evolving Batman making Gotham safer would be such an amazing idea to have for an opening, especially if it took comic reference >!similar to that of Spider-Man: Brand New Day!< .

Has anyone started getting doubts about how the game will really be in actuality. Not in a “schizo” way but more of I’m starting to notice things are seeming to go downhill regarding actions of rockstar. They’ve been lacklustre with marketing in my opinion, they’ve made it so the pre-order locks some content away if you don’t pay the extra amount, they’re not doing a physical release, and it seems to be that they won’t be doing such post release neither. I feel that physical releases were a big part of any franchise from Rockstar Games. Dan Houser is also no longer apart of the company so that leaves some concerns and uncertainty.

Not just all that with GTA 6 but even GTA Online they’re nerfing heists, banning the gambling feature for Australia (unsure if they had much of a choice due to the Aus government?). They also have left Red Dead Redemption Online in the dust, but don’t get me wrong I understand they’ve been clear that they want “all hands on deck” to focus on GTA 6 but if they can make new heists (as well as nerf them) and mansions as well and also can’t seem to give RDR2 any huge updates or even a 60fps patch, it leaves me to worry about if GTA 6 is going to be for the lovers of Grand Theft Auto or if it’s going to be another 13 year drip fed, online game for us to consume until they don’t want to support it anymore. A multi billion dollar company somehow can’t give updates and patches to one of their most well received games, they nerf heists so players are more tempted to buy shark cards? It feels like sometime ago Rockstar wasn’t about corporate greed on the scale they’re looking to be at now. Does anybody share the same concerns?

I’m beyond angry. Leading up to all this I’ve played each life is strange to have a definitive ending and I’ve been happy with each of my endings leading up to this. I chose the Bay ending in LiS1 for example and I felt content. But RE ended with Max going back all because Noelle died? Max literally said to Safi in my playthrough that she was aware she’s been selfish with her time powers and that it’s hurt people. I’ve read her journal in each game. She had character growth up until she straight up absconded Chloe, for the second time? This isn’t in character for Max!? And I don’t want Chloe burning it because their relationship is built on trust for my play through.

Yes I know I could just go back and replay it but I have a bad OCD problem with “my first play-through is my definitive play-through” so I consider my first play-through for each life is strange to be canon to each other and I’m so disappointed that Chloe and Max’s characters were so mishandled. Chloe wouldn’t lie to max, Max has grown and had literally implied she couldn’t leave “this” Chloe ever again. I’m so angry, how do I move on? I’d refund Reunion if I could. The ending is the only bad part, it’s a disservice to the franchise and a disgrace to the characters. Apart of me wants to pretend Max’s story ends at the Bae or Bay ending. Im so happy they never touched Life is Strange 2 (my favourite out of the franchise). What a mess of an ending that was for RE. I hope they never touch another life is strange game again, not to mention the loss of the art style, although True Colours was exceptionally enjoyable. Thanks for coming to my rant!

Do we know if we’ll get her robes yet still? I absolutely adore them in syndicate and I’d like to be able to wear them in shadows, it’s shocking how they had molten lava skins and attack on titan clothes before a canonical female assassins robes.