#  @pwu80d Kelsey Kelsey posts on X about pokemon, money, in the, $8604t the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::983105064654049280/interactions)  - [--] Week [------] +367% - [--] Month [------] +9.90% - [--] Months [-------] +953% - [--] Year [-------] +397% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::983105064654049280/posts_active)  - [--] Week [--] +38% - [--] Month [---] +88% - [--] Months [---] +494% - [--] Year [---] +2,731% ### Followers: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::983105064654049280/followers)  - [--] Week [---] +1.70% - [--] Month [---] +4.50% - [--] Months [---] +23% - [--] Year [---] +48% ### CreatorRank: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::983105064654049280/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [gaming](/list/gaming) [finance](/list/finance) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [countries](/list/countries) [stocks](/list/stocks) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [musicians](/list/musicians) **Social topic influence** [pokemon](/topic/pokemon), [money](/topic/money), [in the](/topic/in-the), [$8604t](/topic/$8604t), [japan](/topic/japan), [sony](/topic/sony), [the first](/topic/the-first), [$6758t](/topic/$6758t), [wolverine](/topic/wolverine), [movies](/topic/movies) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@thereunionvii](/creator/undefined) [@thecinesthetic](/creator/undefined) [@sebbywebz](/creator/undefined) [@chibireviews](/creator/undefined) [@sunworshipluna](/creator/undefined) [@mizukialola](/creator/undefined) [@blazebinges](/creator/undefined) [@4thsnake](/creator/undefined) [@shayrheakp](/creator/undefined) [@theveronicat](/creator/undefined) [@cloudiemcdoom](/creator/undefined) [@pokedailypost](/creator/undefined) [@heckblazers](/creator/undefined) [@momijidoa](/creator/undefined) [@dreamboum](/creator/undefined) [@rinothebouncer](/creator/undefined) [@wokenessisevil](/creator/undefined) [@ashe92l](/creator/undefined) [@mangalawyer](/creator/undefined) [@rekkaalexiel](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)](/topic/microsoft) [BlackRock Inc (BLK)](/topic/blackrock) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "Not only does @JamiesonPrice have the perfect suitable svelte velvety voice for Reeve Tuesti he also captures Reeve's gentleness. A brave idealistic man of honor courage and a hidden heart. Arguably Cait Sith's true heart and soul. #OperationReunion #FinalFantasyVIIRemake" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1189727405990187008) 2019-10-31T02:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@georgenewbern I'd also add you never "lose" as long as you go in with an open heart. As long as your heart burns it is what will and should carry you. You will not know "failure" if you keep learning and keep the heart alive" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1674516312616206340) 2023-06-29T20:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@samanthaflynnx I know this isn't entirely the point but Cameo exists. At conventions most voice actors are pretty down with (paid) video requests. Quinton has done a couple fun YouTube things for people who officially asked. He is incredibly receptive to these things" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1678133160113053699) 2023-07-09T20:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@PROJ_Sephiroth @StarOcean They first did this for Star Ocean First Departure R four years ago. Same thing. Outright openly advertised to have multiple cast options both times. To be fair Square has never officially said it CAN'T be done. They have more than proven especially with the CCR "bug" they CAN" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1681547486865833985) 2023-07-19T06:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@phoenixmiko Max Dood asserted they were originally brought in. If you picked this up anywhere else please let me know. I'd love to know who else said this. I dont know why that information was given to him but I do believe it was and the info is sound" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1690480127329599488) 2023-08-12T21:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "I do want to say @blumspew is one of THE greatest voice actors you will find. His pick as Vincent Valentine was flawless and perfectly natural. There couldn't have been anyone better to handle him. He is the one. Thank you for defining Vincent and being definitive for him" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1702530783078985771) 2023-09-15T03:52Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@PROJ_Sephiroth @MorikunRinari A great deal of spiders are gentle creatures. It is beneficial to have those gentle spiders around to get rid of nasty pests. Some people do keep big spiders as pets even if I still don't understand that. They are highly intelligent and sometimes sweet" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1705310469035106312) 2023-09-22T19:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "While I agree the Internet shouldn't shut down over this I understand where the criticism is coming from and it's valid. Cait Sith is the name of a mythological creature. "Ours" owes its namesake to the mythological creature. When you have names rooted in the real world or has" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1709371593061753298) 2023-10-04T00:55Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Now THAT'S a Reno introduction for me. When I discovered Advent Children for the first time I'm smiling like I love this guy already. You already know a great deal about Reno. He's slick. He's a smooth charmer you have to stay on your toes with. He will" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1711869942771978714) 2023-10-10T22:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@MorikunRinari Who is their source for this There are two One More Games. One is a YouTuber but I could find nothing about them asking anything to Nomura about this. There is another One More Game that is a remote start up dev. They say they have team members that were formerly part of" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1713232192371875912) 2023-10-14T16:35Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@MorikunRinari Warcraft Diablo AND Starcraft. Hello Activision-Blizzard I don't know what a start up's interest would be in knowing who Vincent is. Whoever asked even if Nomura knows he can't say. The people in charge of cast announcements is MARKETING. The game dev would know this" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1713233892373573942) 2023-10-14T16:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Vigilant on the social media playground because marketing/PR has footprints coating the ground. Official social media accounts tend to be run by the company's social media coordinator. The SMC is part of the marketing/PR division. They would take their orders from the leader of" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1716256501931688303) 2023-10-23T00:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "That department. Even more important to be careful over what Square's PR/marketing has to say considering the person in charge of all of it may have held a considerable key role in the cast removal. I have no doubt a former Activision-Blizzard marketer would be top pack of the" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1716256505664614529) 2023-10-23T00:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@Petrajayne26 Because of this and because his mother was never shown otherwise I legit thought with 4Kids that Yugi was an orphan being raised by his grandfather. 4Kids created the Shadow Realm as a euphemism for death. And yet they had me believing Yugi's parents are dead" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1732887230606098740) 2023-12-07T22:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@Nidorom I recommend Radiant Historia Perfect Chronology. I was happy to find this jewel. A classic rpg (even has turn based). Handles its story extremely well. (Minus the fan fic ending.) And is absolutely gutwrenching. You will be ruined and cry pretty hard" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1738256023092093180) 2023-12-22T17:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@MagicalGirlOTD It won't happen as long as Viz holds the rights but I wish even the original English movies would get a high quality treatment. The movies didn't have to deal with as much censorship as the show so outside a few needless changes the original English movies are quite good" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1739033333319746014) 2023-12-24T21:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@AllieRX They got bought because Microsoft needed the sales to push more Series X. I don't think Starfield is as bad a game to warrant deep seated hatred. But nor is it particularly innovative. It probably hits somewhere under the "aight" register" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1740817183029301377) 2023-12-29T19:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@Ace_of_Schrades Not the point but given how massive Groudon is. .HOW does he fit into even an Ultra Ball How much magic squeezing does it take to keep him in there Just something to muse over. Those Pokeballs are built to fit an almost literal red Godzilla in real nice" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1741064969439883639) 2023-12-30T11:53Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@Rcb626R With the things that are strangely silent like with this segment I've been told the Japanese cast originally recorded for those. The English cast didn't. Ito could've had a scheduling problem where she couldn't come in for the game at the time. Cook likely just wasn't asked" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1741893631080829387) 2024-01-01T18:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@Rcb626R However they made sure to bring Ito back in for Crisis Core Reunion. Baron was brought in instead of Cook. It would've made more sense to bring the original cast in to complete the work they just didn't do for Crisis Core. Money wise that made more sense. But they spent a great" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1741894110846370188) 2024-01-01T18:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "I feel so bad for Chris Edgerly. Those who don't know he's Pathfinder in Apex Legends. (And naturally the original English Cid Highwind.) He regularly streams Apex Legends so he's as much of a player/fan as he is as an actor in there. He was part of an untransparent entire cast #FF7R has been summoned to the Outlands Drop in starting Jan [--] to experience a takeover event featuring the Buster Sword Materia Hop-Ups and Iconic new skins. ✨: https://t.co/8C7IEYTv4W https://t.co/BYoXSZgjRt #FF7R has been summoned to the Outlands Drop in starting Jan [--] to experience a takeover event featuring the" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1743011548606382322) 2024-01-04T20:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Removal. And now the situation has to intrude inside a game he holds near and dear. Why are we even getting an Apex Legends/FF7R crossover Im glad you asked. 😊 Sometimes it helps to follow the money. Apex Legends is produced and published by Respawn Entertainment an EA first" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1743011553161478518) 2024-01-04T20:48Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Party publisher. Respawn was founded by Jason West and Vince Zampella. The same ones behind Infinity Ward. Infinity Ward is one of Activision-Blizzard's biggest video game developers. So once again this ties back to the top dog of Square marketing John" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1743011555669676453) 2024-01-04T20:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@samanthaflynnx I knew about Jesse McCartney way before anything related to Roxas. His original band Dream Street even had a song in the Pokemon [----] soundtrack. Wild. This is probably my favorite song of his. It's a straight up banger" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1743828354141184171) 2024-01-07T02:54Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@MadCapMunchkin I disagree for the original PS3 since it offered full backwards compatibility. But overall I do agree that each successive generation cuts back more features for an even bigger price tag. Games that may deliberately be missing content now cost $70. Min" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1744696253324153264) 2024-01-09T12:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Syd Barrett. According to the album's story the industry/"the machine" played a critical part in Syd's demise. The real machine is the system. "What did you dream It's all right we told you what to dream." This is becoming even more startling in its truth. This is a song that" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1744818515268300832) 2024-01-09T20:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Could have been made not from a machine but human beings. An AI doesn't have Roger Waters' songwriting. If you told the machine to write a song in the style of this song it'd likely come out something like "Salutations my kin. Usher close to the mechanation." The music wouldn't" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1744818517751255129) 2024-01-09T20:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@Gekko_Amario @TaraSandsVO @Variety Another voice actor talked about this. I'm paraphrasing a little. According to him SAG is more interested in looking out for its "first class citizens." Me: Celebrities. Celebrities and high profile staff and crew already got more of what they wanted with the last strike" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1744853541146022175) 2024-01-09T22:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@Gekko_Amario @TaraSandsVO @Variety Voice actors were left out to hang with the current SAG agreement even before this. And what this does prior to the video game contract negotiations is further undercut voice actors from any real bargaining power for better quality changes. SAG hasn't protected them through this" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1744854374495436809) 2024-01-09T22:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@arkclaimer I even wonder how the Paradox beasts fit with the Legendary beasts. The beasts are reincarnated from their previous forms due to Ho oh. How did this funky little timey whimey (Doctor Who) shenanigans cause the beasts to come out like. .this" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1745206712418644391) 2024-01-10T22:11Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@VikkitheVA Not only was this not put up for a vote among union members the actors were not consulted at any point in the process. No one knew until this story went public. I've honestly never seen any union betray its members like this. It's gobsmacking in its cruelty. It even undercuts" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1745528768238632979) 2024-01-11T19:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@VikkitheVA The actors' negotiating power right before the video game negotiations are coming up. That a union would do this to its own people. .I've witnessed the discussions from every angry. No one is happy about this. But a lot of actors will stay in the union since even though the" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1745529175123824898) 2024-01-11T19:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@AutumnRaptor1 The sad thing is with a burst of originality and creativity it could've been something special. Monster catching/raising/battling games are my jam and fatal weakness. But it's stealing is so obvious it robs even any joy out what could've been something cool" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1747775829436768509) 2024-01-18T00:20Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@BlocksSega Social media tends to exacerbate our greatest insecurities and darkest instincts. It's like the online version of high school part II. You shouldn't compromise who you are for the sake of people (strangers) especially online strangers. They don't know you or know your true beauty" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1747810843272593510) 2024-01-18T02:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@FF8_Garden I wouldn't say FF8 isn't a fan favorite. It has enough true strengths to have a place in the "pantheon" regardless of if someone doesn't care for it. But yes. This is some Uematsu's most impeccable work on top of his already sterling touch" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1754202578840105187) 2024-02-04T17:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@ObsoleteSony The PS1 wasn't my first console or even my first Playstation and this is inarguable to me. Ominous without being overbearing. It feels like a tingle in your bones. It feels like a surging deep plunge into something special and powerful" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1754701587719553520) 2024-02-06T03:00Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@Meta_Bro1 @TheAbbeyRoadie Bob saved a man from committing suicide . .and the guy sued him for his right to die. Part of the reason the heroes went under. .is because people kept suing them for trying to help. That's a little TOO on point if we had superheroes. Way too sadly right and too close" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1759445340615328060) 2024-02-19T05:10Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Welp that conforms a Sephiroth exists in this universe outside Cloud's Heartless. That brings up a LOT of questions over where that Sephiroth is. And what happened to Zack in this universe. No one makes any mention of him later on. What is his connection to Cloud Is he alive Why isn't he with Aerith if he's alive But Lil Zack is so unbelievably adorable. Rick Gomez is still sublime for Zack. (Yes it's still him in Birth by Sleep.) He makes Lil Zack even more unbelievably precious. And be definitely do a far younger Zack Fair of asked" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1778140627936379085) 2024-04-10T19:18Z [---] followers, [----] engagements ""Consolidation" as I see it being called on social is about not only cutting costs but funneling the money that came out of these studios that would've gone to make other games so the top executives can picked a few extra bonuses. That's the name of the game with this. Although Redfall didn't do nearly as well asexpected Arkane Austin was a thriving studio. Tango Gameworks released HI Fi rush to both critical and sales success. There was no creative or even valid fimancial reason why these studios got delivered the axe. The only reason they got axed is basically so the Microsoft executives" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1788048823568236559) 2024-05-08T03:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "This site has been advocating and championing for these actors for five years ever since June [--] [----]. They've deeply and meticulously researched so many details covering this situation and about the video game industry. They know their stuff. The Sony influence over Square is another extensive conversation but they've looked into this. Sony pushing Square to pull an entire cast is based off research and knowledge Sony has a great deal of power and control over Square for at least the last six years that is still not properly understood and disclosed. And if ever you want the deep dive over" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1790595642420560251) 2024-05-15T04:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Oh it's a lot more than they that simply "lent" their services to help Stellar Blade get created. It's a particularly devious practice Sony has done over the last few years that has never been properly disclosed or recognized over the years. They say games like Stellar Blade are Playstation "exclusive." What they're not disclosing the reason for that is that these games are effectively Sony games. Once Sony moves over to direct money to development they become a co developer/financer of the game. That would mean Stellar Blade is never coming to XBOX or Switch. It can't unless Sony grants" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1794512952952791478) 2024-05-25T23:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Sony has only pulled the interview and admitted to the "errors" only after Druckmann came forward to show what he actually said. And after Druckmann was publicly wrung and dragged through the mud on the eyes of social media "court." Sony didn't simply just "condense" the interview. They reworked it and inserted things in. What they're not letting on is that these alterations had to go through the chain of command. Someone at the top had to look at this altered interview approve it and agree for it to be published in that shape. The question is why. Why did they alter the interview at all What" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1795861061452582970) 2024-05-29T16:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "I'll grant this may be considered "controverstial" but let's go back to John Eric Bentley's story over how he was chosen to be Barret. He says Rita Kedineoglu not only personally auditioned him through his process but in this deleted and taken off the internet completely original Morning Game Brew video he goes further qnd says Rita personally requested he audition for Barret. Based on what the Casting [---] article has to share about theUdifiom process there's no way that could've happened where a casting director would personally request any act9r to audition. Not only does that strike a" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1832940063652823065) 2024-09-09T00:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "We have a lot to be thankful for with what Takeshi Shudo brought to Pokmon. The guy was never infallible though and he had a lot of questionable ideas for series as much as he had legitimately good ones. I hate what he had to say about Misty in particular. He not only appeared to hold a cold disdain and resentment to her but he was the one who championed the push to remove her from the series arguing she was not a well fleshed out enough character. The anime had fallen off a cliff starting with Johto Champions amd a great deal of the original staff and crew of the show were on their way out" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1835441770441629865) 2024-09-15T22:13Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "There are people who believe Nintendo/Gamefreak deserve to be plagiarized. They did it to themselves for running the Pokmon franchise into the ground and this is what they have earned and won out of it. What they don't understand is that someone plagiarizing someone else this brazenly and openly is not going to lead to better games. It only makes games worse for it. It sends the signal that this is okay and actively encouraged that people plagiarize as much as they want. Particularly if you have a score to dig in with a developer. Encouraging and cheering plagiarism isn't going to make" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1836786277540147284) 2024-09-19T15:15Z [---] followers, 19.7K engagements "It's very hard to say and that much over what Team Asobi publicly offered is the truth of it. What makes this odder is that Square put out an Apex Legends x FF7 crossover earlier this year (part of the courtesy certainly helps that John Heinecke knows the founders of Infinity Ward and Respawn Entertainment from their time together over at Activision-Blizzard) with little issue and very big promotion on it. Companies need around an eight-12 month period to implement and fully bake in a crossover so Square's current financial woes would be highly unlikely to have played any part in refusing" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1840875297136136665) 2024-09-30T22:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Vincent says in the original FF7 he had slept in the coffin for [--] years. Lucrecia was pregnant with Sephiroth during the time Vincent was forced into this basically a coma so that puts Seph's age around 29-30. (The Crisis Core muses Gemesis is "around 25" for most of the story so you can "figure" Sephiroth is right around the same age.) It gives him enough time to become the esteem lauded Solider of all time and have the maturity and world experience to sharpen him as well as shatter him to pieces slowly and surely" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1844749176594120765) 2024-10-11T14:37Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Probably so and the manga would've been wise to capitalize more on that idea. Giorno's existence is a peculiarity. He technically has two fathers equally contributing to his DNA. He would be at least 1/4 vampire with superhuman feats of strength. If Hamon was brought back he would inherit a lot of that talent from Jonathan. So he would be a dhampir who knows Hamon and also a Stand user on top of it" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1845699240263114977) 2024-10-14T05:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "It's more than likely more so the games are assembly pressed on a mandated release schedule where they don't have the time to implement this back in. Every modern Pokmon game takes one step in a positive direction five backpedaling step next. They have no sense of consistent direction where they bring in a truly great idea (for me the Z moves in Sun and Moon) and don't ever do it again or they beat a good idea deep into the ground (Team Skull being the first region group not out for world conquest but just petty immature punks. We've seen this idea repeated at least two other times now. The" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1845949547895238735) 2024-10-14T22:07Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Something happened starting in rhe PS4 generation: it started growing far longer for a console system to be worth the investment into it. The PS4 became worthy to invest in it around the time the PS4 Pro hit somewhere three-four years down the line. We're four years into the PS5 generation and I don't see it being worthy as an investment until likely the very end of its generation. You can argue the why's on this happening: longer production time required for big entry games further corporate consolidation of studios split and "shared" between Microsoft and Sony Hollywood executives sticking" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1849505354226287037) 2024-10-24T17:36Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Dragon Age Origins looks more and more like a "lightning in a bottle" game. A dark masterful classic style game with some of the richest story branches and choices in all of video games. The game even lives up the "origin" part of its name. Each main character "class" comes with its own detailed and rich story completely different and unique from each other. The short answer to why Dragon Age couldn't keep up was that the majority of the people that made Bioware what it is left the company in droves. EA forced a speedy sequel that had to cut a tremendous amount of corners and suffered from" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1851134838939505056) 2024-10-29T05:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Bradford Anderson revealed a tidbit that was never shown in the actual show that Spinelli grew up believing his grandmother was his actual mother. There is a story behind that that was never fully explored. Spinelli's past only comes out in shards but you get the feeling ge either didn't have a lot of close friends before he met Sam and Jason or the friends he did have were online. Sam was the reason Jason and Spinelli were able to meet. Knowing her allowed them to know each other and create one of the most powerful and geniune friendships in this series Sam and Jason not only gave Spinelli" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1852838422408528173) 2024-11-02T22:21Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Lorenzo Alcazar was attempting to frame Sam to get her out of the way. He recently employed a certain Damien Spinelli for his purposes. Sam and Jason were tracking Spinelli down because a hacker of that skill level could be useful to them and to clear Sam's name. So it was because of Sam that there was urgency they needed to find Spinelli. Spinelli was introduced as someone tasked to help HER. Jason and Spinelli further bonded and grew close during the Metro Court hostage storyline (which also involved Alcazar to a certain extent.) But Spinelli first knew Sam and Jason first. Everyone he met" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1852845908829839385) 2024-11-02T22:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Samara was tasked with the unenviable duty to kill her own daughter for a genetic defect she embraced and used to murder countless others. It wasn't the genetic defect that made Morinth a monster it was that she's an unapologetic psychopath. And Samara ultimately blamed herself for not only being able to save her daughter but was the one that passed this curse on to Morinth. Mass Effect [--] [--] Dragon Age early Bioware wasn't afraid of mature very nuanced and complex storytelling. They weren't afraid to go to some pretty dark places. Ie Even Thomas' story involving his father in Mass Effect [--] is" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1855276645499711914) 2024-11-09T15:49Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "What has always been problematic is how this cast has been celebrated and adored. .at the complete expense of the original cast. This is always a difficult topic of conversation to breach because you run the risk of being labeled as a "hater" or more directly targeted as "not a true fan" and "not one of us" that holds some kind of grudge against this cast and harbor ill will towards them. That bringing up the original cast in the direction of this one is somehow inconsiderate and rude where you're being disgraceful to these people. This is not true. But ever since "day one" began where we all" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1860118716857393268) 2024-11-23T00:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "As far as I can see with this post Nova didn't even tag Bentley with it. Twitter is such a huge ocean of people swimming around in it that not only are you not going to see everything in the waters but it's difficult to find someone if you aren't looking and know the where and the how's. So if Bentley wasn't tagged. .how did he find this if he wasn't looking for it already He wasn't mentioned by name but Beau Billingslea was. Which means he would be scrolling through Twitter using Beau Billingslea as a search option and gathering what people were talking about concerning the original Barret." [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1861570372937883866) 2024-11-27T00:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Actors always command a tremendous amount of clout influence and voice normal people don't touch. These actors very well realize their voice carries power a d influence wherever they walk and take themselves. Bentley asking a fan "not to hate" less than [--] hours after he has announced to be the next English Barret and after the fan said they basically just didn't dig his voice and they missed Beau Billingslea terribly is so significant and striking as a move to make. This is how he chose to introduce himself to this fan. Nova's first interaction and for all intentions and purposes meeting" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1862614421165723679) 2024-11-29T21:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "They did it as an easy way to differentiate themselves from the obvious ones that came "before"-Tomb Raider and Uncharted both heavily inspired and influenced from the Indiana Jones trilogy. Now that they put a 1st person view in what should've been a nice slick 3rd person game look see It's different already. Based on the trailers so far this design choice doesn't merely affect looks. It severally restrains and represses gameplay design and choice. They didn't need to go full Arkham series on melee but it would've been nice to have a great deal of choices over how Indy can fight. If he would" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1864887178096185813) 2024-12-06T04:18Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed. These 1980s graphics have not stood up to the test of time. It looks like a low rent budget action mov. .oh. The video game is the one on the top. 😂 Indiana Jones' cinematography remains as top notch and a beautiful touch as it always has. There's way too many good reasons the video game shouldn't have touched the movie in any way. One big reason being that Raiders of the Lost Ark is a (wonderful) movie. It's a self aware movie that in some ways realizes it's a movie and has a lot of playful fun with it. This opening alone balances a subtle cheeky" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1865201479512121784) 2024-12-07T01:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "People that truly love you will never hate you for your power and your light. They love the person you are. They will love your strength and your bravery. They will support it and encourage it. They will work to nurture it how they can. People that love you want you to be strong. They want you to see yourself and love yourself the way they see you so clearly and love you so much for who you are" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1880814994985521465) 2025-01-19T03:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "It's probably due to a few factors abd but specifically one. The major one is my eyes has to be the long overdue blowback from the release. Spiderman [--] did well upon release off the success and merits of the first game. Spiderman wasn't a perfect game. They took some unnecessary liberties with the established story and characters (I hated gow much they watered down and gutted Mr. Negative. Mr. Negative is supposed to be the Marvel equivalent to Two Face: a sweetpure hearted human individual consumed by a living darkness half. Turning Harry into Venom instead of Eddie Brock was. .questionable" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1885162361939542086) 2025-01-31T03:05Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@Sunworshipluna 🧵 This is tragically a recurring theme with the way Nomura is treated and regarded at Square. He I one of the rare precious few left at Square that give any shits. He is someone who tries and pulls geniune effort into what he does. Nomura very well should have been one of the" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1914772336324333595) 2025-04-22T20:04Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@Sunworshipluna most key essential people in actual charge after Sakaguchi departed rather than a man facing a ticking clock over if he'll even finish the Kingdom Hearts saga. Nomura's personal story over the last [--] years has been such royal increasing screw overs it's not even funny" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1914772583053934955) 2025-04-22T20:05Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@Sunworshipluna He was always one of the most essential people to Square's success. Toriyama contributed to the abysmally lunatic worse of the original FF7. Nomura brought out some of the very best of it. Nomura was never allowed to direct anything FF related outside Advent Children" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1914772712427336175) 2025-04-22T20:06Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@Sunworshipluna What should've happened once FF13 was completed and wrapped up FFVersus13 had its development prioritized. Instead Kitase and Toriyama continued to prioritize THEIR FF13 trilogy (when FF13 never invited being a trilogy to begin with) and only further chose to take on projects" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1914772925493993527) 2025-04-22T20:06Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@Sunworshipluna that would further divert money and resources away from Versus13. Versus13 wound up never seeing the light of day. Nomura was pulled off Versus13/15 and the new director decided to go in his own direction refusing to honor what Nomura spent languishing for [--] years to see" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1914773115781177422) 2025-04-22T20:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@Sunworshipluna Realized. It's painfully clear whatever involvement Nomura holds for the FF7R projects is little more than a glorified consultant. He is granted little to no ability to speak or have his input be regarded outside SOME of the character designs. I feel his duties" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1914773275575562695) 2025-04-22T20:08Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@Sunworshipluna with FF7R are akin to what Greg Weisman described was his involvement as a consultant for Gargoyles season three (the season everyone tries their best to forget): smacking his head against the wall and doing his best simply to steer the wreck to something even functional" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1914773438775844902) 2025-04-22T20:08Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@Sunworshipluna Nomura was the one who advocated for a faithful FF7 Remake. Kitase discarded that input and refused to listen to it. They were going to tell a new story Kitase demanded was necessary whether Nomura or the fans wanted this consented to this or are happy with this. The story" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1914773563787387089) 2025-04-22T20:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@Sunworshipluna regarding early life should always have been treated with love and passion. The idea was bristling with so much potential especially considering Glenn's impact on him and the story at large. But yet again the people involved refused to reign their egos in check" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1914773682045546931) 2025-04-22T20:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@Sunworshipluna They're going to ram everything through as THEIR way or not at all and to hell with the story or what Nomura and the fans have to say about it. At best First Solider is badly undercooked. At worse it's everything as f'd up as what we see with the FF7R trilogy" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1914773798785531923) 2025-04-22T20:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@Sunworshipluna The best case scenario is the people in actual charge have such a limited superficial understanding of these characters. More to the point they don't care. They hold no regard for this special story we love so much. They see it as product they can dismantle carve and reshape" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1914773941941416021) 2025-04-22T20:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@Sunworshipluna whim they feel like. People like Nomura who care are silenced and thrown on the backburner. It's embarrassing and deeply unprofessional especially givwn this is a Japanese conpany to watch someone essentially talk over Nomura out in the open and show what little respect he holds" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1914774226466431324) 2025-04-22T20:12Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@LavenderGhast It's an all too familiar story on how catapulted fame destroys a person. You only need to look at the ugliness on what was done to Amy Hennig the very woman who helped put him right on the map to prove he and Straley were capable of handling their own game" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1919794364135403982) 2025-05-06T16:40Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@LavenderGhast Druckmann amd Straley assert they were uninvolved with pushing Hennig out of Naughty Dog. Around [--] years later no one on the outside knows the full story of what happened to her. We just know the fallout and Druckmann and Straley were handed full control of Uncharted [--]. And" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1919794839819898883) 2025-05-06T16:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@lofi_lover0930 Let me guess. Lady couldn't be bothered to be brought over to this reboot and a new original character was offered because Lady wasn't "strong enough." More so than the misogyny on display I don't know when it became popular to dump all over an original story. Tom Huelett was" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1919846011796598876) 2025-05-06T20:05Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@vishgod69 Japan where Keith and Valerie Arem sought to find no one else than the best people they could for these characters the most essential the most pivotal the actors meant to play these characters. Persona [--] had a technically pre superstardom Troy Baker with one of his" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1927962253225009414) 2025-05-29T05:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@vishgod69 finest and most special characters. Johnny Yong Bosch Tara Platt Yuri Lowenthal etc. they were all already well known and deeply loved voice actors whose love for their characters didn't have to be challenged. What we loved so dearly about these characters" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1927962825441350131) 2025-05-29T05:38Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "idea her future as Peach wasn't secure and she was ever going to lose the character. It's not that Nintendo simply "couldn't get around" to telling her a thing about this until a few days ago. It was a careful deliberate choice on their part to keep Kelly out of knowing a word" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1931253524580487671) 2025-06-07T07:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "that she was now gone quicker than the phone call they finally picked up to give her. They dropped this bombshell gutwrenching brutal termination notice. .as the very same day as the Nintendo Switch [--] release. That day should've been a joyous blissful celebration for Kelly" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1931253612593676748) 2025-06-07T07:35Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "toasting a successful Switch [--] and Mario Kart World launch with her full on with the reigns as Peach again. Not a dark day brimmed with choked back tears and being told after nearly [--] years as the character she's just gone like that. .and they made an entire game without her" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1931253677894856809) 2025-06-07T07:35Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "This isn't the first time an FF7R actor has altered their origin story on how they were picked for these characters. Cody Christian shared he was pulled into a secret audition. He had no idea what it was for. People over in Japan came in via a @RinoaUchiha Strange how the email for the audition was apparently addressed for another actress and she asked her agent if she could audition for it. I dont see how Rita chose her from the roster like she claimed in the Washington Post interview. @RinoaUchiha Strange how the email for the audition was apparently addressed for another actress and she" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1932532360047968524) 2025-06-10T20:16Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Skype session and joined in on the process. He was provided no script no working codename title or a customary pamphlet containing key character art. He was given no instruction outside of playing out swinging a giant sword around as various enemies were coming at" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1932532955236221410) 2025-06-10T20:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Christian's original story contradicts Britt Baron's she share on the same exact interview conducted by the same people behind it. Baron shares she went in knowing full well she was auditioning for Tifa. She even later went on so far to say she was "personally requested" to him. That was it. That was his complete audition. He told Fandom it was an audition he would never be able to forget. .https://t.co/bkZJnDv1UO Later on the story shifted over to an entirely different one. Christian pivoted over to now insisting him. That was it. That was his complete audition. He told Fandom it was an" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1932547378780741976) 2025-06-10T21:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "audition. By who she's never said. Bentley offered a far more personal fleshed out version of those events to Morning Game Brew. Rita Skylark Studios (the localization studio Square contracts for FF7 and Kingdom Hearts projects) casting director" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1932547962460151992) 2025-06-10T21:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "provided him with a name of the series she wanted him to throw himself in the running for. There are two main issues with the differing accounts if what transpired. Christian may not be using the secret audition story anymore but it is a story he freely put out there" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1932548326248919410) 2025-06-10T21:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The basic truth of the matter is he changed his own story. The auditions would all fall around the same time with similar processes conditions and length of time. There is no reason for Skylark to hold a secret claesdine operation of an audition for ONE actor. " [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1932548535355846757) 2025-06-10T21:20Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@TheReunionVII @RGamerB_ This is directed to RGamer: How many sales for a two year old exclusive locked game nearly shadow dropped upon those same fans would it have taken for you If the game matched or exceeded the three million in three days release fans were" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1934667354748731529) 2025-06-16T17:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@TheReunionVII @RGamerB_ allowed months of relentless targeted marketing to know about What you're not letting on is after those three day sales FF16 dropped like sand grain in the ocean. Square has refused to release official sales figures even if they were" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1934667580356350180) 2025-06-16T17:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@TheCartelDel @SquareEnix OUT at all. There was no one telling them to keep a "back up" copy in the case of any future re-releases. It's similar to how a lot of early film has been lost for those reasons or outright obliterated by time. It's a big reason why the X/X-2 came out as" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1935762826993324492) 2025-06-19T18:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@TheCartelDel @SquareEnix hideous and garish as they did: the remaster studio assigned to the project didn't have access to a back up copy so they were forced to redo the graphics from scratch. They just didn't nearly do the outstanding work as Bluepoint" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1935763112038121839) 2025-06-19T18:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@TheReunionVII The difference is night and day between the releases. The PC lighting is washed out dulled and faded at the seams. It runs graphically weaker for a port released four years later. Normally ports have the advantage of tiny pieces of extra time money and https://www.pcmrace.com/2021/10/22/god-of-war-video-comparativo-pc-vs-ps5/ https://www.pcmrace.com/2021/10/22/god-of-war-video-comparativo-pc-vs-ps5/" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1936842552956911721) 2025-06-22T17:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@TheReunionVII resources thrown at it. A remaster will typically look slightly prettier to the original release. Not like the game degraded a generation or two in that time. Sony would argue a four year after the fact PC is not capable of running at the power of a PS5. .When high end PCs are" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1936842650318970889) 2025-06-22T17:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@PatzPowerz @TheReunionVII That's certainly what they wanted everyone to believe yes. The idea Square was advertising on how Tactics is fully voiced for the first time deliberately leans into the idea there was never any Tactics cast. They're up to their old ink scrawled tricks as" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1937244135775170756) 2025-06-23T20:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@PatzPowerz @TheReunionVII per usual to erase out the truth a cast very much was there before. The PSP release of War of the Lions (which Square is trying to argue they can't use to port that version to modern console) very much DID have actors. The voice acting was much more limited in scale as a PSP" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1937244370551373853) 2025-06-23T20:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@PatzPowerz @TheReunionVII Companies often shaved a few bucks out of the actors' pockets on PSP/Vita releases doing it that way. It's why Crisis Core Reunion serves as an extra slap in the face to the original cast. Not only were they blocked out of being retained even for work completed" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1937244483994755332) 2025-06-23T20:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@PatzPowerz @TheReunionVII Square has pulled almost the exact same thing now with Tactics. And it STILL makes no sense how Square simply "can't" keep an original cast in tact even so much as for work already completed. .and spend far more than that to" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1937244854980845736) 2025-06-23T20:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@PatzPowerz @TheReunionVII replace this entire cast for the sake of a remaster release. Phil LaMarr was (brought back) in for Dissidia NT for a reason. They didn't cast him just for Dissidia NT Ramza. He was ALWAYS Ramza up until this release" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1937244946677006424) 2025-06-23T20:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@TheReunionVII @nichegamer From what I've seen of it Tactics' script didn't need to be "improved" all that much from what it already is. Much like FF12 there is such a keen eye to detail on how people in these medieval worlds converse. Jack Fletcher did a commendable on bringing that" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1937329431250411780) 2025-06-24T01:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@StormDash_10 @BlazeBinges He didn't rake Foley over the coals about being racist towards him. At this point in his life Robert is more tired and fed up of people like Foley. He knows he can't change them. People only change if they want to. Robert will not bleed for the heart of a racist that isn't there" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1937360495180202017) 2025-06-24T04:01Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@StormDash_10 @BlazeBinges What he is legitimately more heartbroken about IS how Foley treats his own son. He knows Foley's kind of hatred is so destructive if Richie won't be like that his dad will slowly kill him from the inside. Richie will eventually learn to hate not by racism but even hating his" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1937360562754650153) 2025-06-24T04:02Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@StormDash_10 @BlazeBinges own father. Robert wishes for no one to live their lives in hate like that let alone someone he considers nearly as close as his own son. Foley's scowl at the end shows that he knows this is the truth even if he doesn't want to admit it" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1937360724533055811) 2025-06-24T04:02Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@Aquaslash2049 @BlazeBinges It's more to prove that no matter what choice she was presented she still took the one to save as many lives as she could that night. She could tell from Virgil that she had to be dead in the future. It's not that she believed the future couldn't happen for her. She was willing" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1937772639990231236) 2025-06-25T07:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@Aquaslash2049 @BlazeBinges to stay put like she promised her son. She realized she simply couldn't when she was radioed people were still in need of help. There were other people out there that could die that night. She couldn't allow the fear and uncertainty of her future prevent her from saving lives NOW" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1937772716645347443) 2025-06-25T07:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@HoodlaMutt Here's something that not a lot of people tend to know. Working on soaps is more than a 9-5 with actors. It's often more 4/6 am to up to 6-8 pm every everyday for [--] straight weeks. Burton has to be more choosy over whatever extra projects" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1940619779888631838) 2025-07-03T03:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@TheCartelDel Microsoft was the one who choose to put everything in the basket of what they have for XBOX with Game Pass. Game Pass was a gamble that laid everything on the line. Game Pass could never have been anything but an unmitigated success otherwise it would leave XBOX crumbled to the" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1941773214708912395) 2025-07-06T08:16Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@TheCartelDel flames. This is truly terrible business making. Anyone with any kind of common sense with regular sensible business practices would be able to tell Microsoft this was a bad idea from go. Game Pass was untested and unproven to work before they rolled it out in full force. It" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1941773298972410172) 2025-07-06T08:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@Flutflut1 @jojo_wiki They changed NELLYVILLE. Okay I for sure know what that reference is. As a kid who loved Nelly in the early 2000s this makes me smile. It delights me that Nelly is getting some long lost and overdue love in some form and in Jojo no less. It's something of a sign of honor to be" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1941775520858845477) 2025-07-06T08:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@Flutflut1 @jojo_wiki a musician included for a Jojo character name. Part of the fun and the joy of Jojo is the music references. It's vital to the series' identity to be able to keep the reference in tact. Changing Santana to Saviento in the English dub was already stupid for more than one reason" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1941775585216176136) 2025-07-06T08:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@Flutflut1 @jojo_wiki One of them being that Santana is obviously the far greater name. Carlos Santana has been around forever and he is one of the all time classic greats. Who doesn't love the guitarist with the killer fingers Changing his name served no purpose. None of these changes do. I am not" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1941775639884747019) 2025-07-06T08:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@RinoTheBouncer Last of Us Part II never needed to come into being. It was already questionable to pick TLOU up as a full fledged series rather than a standalone self contained title that didn't beg to be further explored or continued on. Part II annihilates the series from the inside out where" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1941779055138742598) 2025-07-06T08:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@RinoTheBouncer the series is no longer salvageable. There is nowhere to GO with TLOU after Part II. Spiderman II destroyed promise of the SMPEU (Spiderman Marvel Playstation expanded universe). These are the only games Insomniac has put out since [----]. They're unlikely to even pick up another" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1941779128757129653) 2025-07-06T08:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@RinoTheBouncer Rachet and Clank in the immediate future. Horizon is a cow Sony has bled dry. And these are the games Sony is investing all the money and resources into making. Sony would rather push out a (unfortunately and horrifyingly too likely) PS6 remake of TLOU than spend that money more" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1941779176488378483) 2025-07-06T08:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@lippyent Yes. This was perfectly true in our parent's age and the ones that came before them. Children were expected to be seen but not heard in the house for the longest time. Turning them loose throughout the neighborhood was an extension of that practice. They were expected to be" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1942089707480846706) 2025-07-07T05:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@lippyent "gotten lost" and amuse themselves during the day until it was time to be expected back at home. You could go anywhere and do about anything you wanted as long as you didn't get into trouble. It's often referred to as "latchkey" parenting. It was hands off and kids were expected" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1942089769921437719) 2025-07-07T05:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@MidnightKolrath Sparda to operate his weapon. He sought Dante for that purpose but realized Nero would be just as much suitable. It means Sanctus figured it out if Nero wasn't Vergil's he was at least a Sparda descendant in some way. Dante told Nero" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1942292671533310257) 2025-07-07T18:40Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@MidnightKolrath he wanted the Yamato back to keep it safe in the family. He told Nero to keep it twice. When Nero offers it back the last time he's confused why Dante refuses to take it. I thought you wanted it in the family. Dante: It is. It wasn't ever subtle. If this was" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1942292922247893251) 2025-07-07T18:41Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "It should be noted Arem Productions the recording studio that has been attached to the Persona series ever since the original [--] is tied to Activision Blizzard as one of their largest key clients. The Arems have worked close with Activision Blizzard within the last [--] years Whats going on at Sega recently 🫢Persona [--] Reload is recast 😦Yakuzas Kazuma Kiryu is now voiced by Yong Yea And 😱Persona [--] will likely be recast And it has everything to do with FF7Rs recast. Video below 👇 #FinalFantasy #Yakuza0 #P4Revival https://t.co/1kBDW3gdv3 Whats going on at Sega recently 🫢Persona [--] Reload is" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1942589365835948365) 2025-07-08T14:19Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "alone. This is an "on paper" idea but it is within the realm of probability a former Activision Blizzard marketer and particularly one that has worked underneath John Heinecke among the most powerful (former Activision Blizzard) marketer out there https://www.pcbproductions.com/aboutpcb https://www.pcbproductions.com/aboutpcb" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1942589753678811315) 2025-07-08T14:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "for decades. Keith and Valerie casted Yuri Lowenthal for Persona [--] and again for Persona [--]. Up until recently they have stood firm on consistently bringing back the original Persona casts nearly without fail. The Persona [--] cast was repeatedly brought back for each and every new" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1942589990774661407) 2025-07-08T14:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Persona release up until Reload. Voice/casting directors typically aren't the ones to remove an actor and certainly not a longtime established one connected deeply with the series THEY chose. The industry is so knitted together voice/casting directors will work closely with" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1942590140297138354) 2025-07-08T14:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements ". .You can't understand their interest in steamrolling out the longest established English Kiryu to appoint a high profile influencer in his place. That's not in character for a casting/voice director. Directors don't cast like this. It very much is the color of a corporate" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1942591013480014082) 2025-07-08T14:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Corporates will even on paper deliberately exert their power over studios to comply with this. If a studio is found to "not be agreeable" and "difficult" to a corporate ordered mandate people talk in this industry. Former Activision Blizzard personnel would be a doing a fair" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1942591084686893454) 2025-07-08T14:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "share of talking. They can "casually suggest" that they can talk to their connections even from still inside Activision Blizzard that studio is refusing to be a "team player." They wouldn't say they will pull contract from a studio that will fight for actors. But they would share" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1942591178982949293) 2025-07-08T14:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@PLeigh_Presents I've come to agree with this the older I get. Not ever character is going to be pressed like an MMA fighter. The older classic Disney Princesses are a big case of you don't have to be physically strong in order to be a strong powerful commanding individual. It's what" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1943104261736534414) 2025-07-10T00:25Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@PLeigh_Presents modern feminism society and entertainment gets so terribly wrong. You're not necessarily frail if you lack physical strength. Willie from Temple and Doom and the original Ashley Graham from Resident Evil [--] are rancid vile creatures not even" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1943104643384643634) 2025-07-10T00:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@4thSnake 🧵There's a great deal of behind the scenes corporate politics at play with this that it would take a night and another full moon to fully dive into the breath of it. It boils down to one basic truth: corporates. Corporates have decided to leverage casting for their express" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1943162400917557622) 2025-07-10T04:16Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@4thSnake purposes and uses. A large of part of the motivation is the increasing Hollywood influence and control over the video game industry. They have decided to arrange the game to be played the way Hollywood does it. Only it's even more underhanded and dirty because any actor that is" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1943162468039299467) 2025-07-10T04:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@4thSnake removals used to be something unbelievably rare and unusual to behold. It just barely happened at all. Companies didn't DO THIS. Something like Persona [--] and THEN Persona [--]. .back to back full cast removals. .was something unheard of less than a decade ago and barely over half a" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1943162948148457704) 2025-07-10T04:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@4thSnake decade. Resident Evil [--] Remake is a slightly different scenario than the others. Capcom never tended to think that highly of their established actors to begin with. They changed every and any Resident Evil actor out almost on a literal dime so casually and frequently the fanbase" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1943163012661096574) 2025-07-10T04:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@4thSnake is probably desensitized to the behavior by now. They scrubbed out Alyson Court who was the last not only longtime but original actor out of Resident Evil [--] Remake. .because she was on strike fighting for better pay and better quality of life safety measures for motion capture" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1943163066058715584) 2025-07-10T04:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@4thSnake actors. (If an motion capture actor would be to severely or fatally injured as the result of the job they would be fairly compensated for it.) Capcom responded by pursuing an actress that was willing to take the lesser pay and less guaranteed benefits rather than attempting to" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1943163116298088930) 2025-07-10T04:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@4thSnake even TRY to work with Court to see her back. Capcom just never has treated or regarded its actors very well and I don't see that stopping any time soon. They replaced Ada's actress from RE2R for RE4R. That one is more in tune with the current story: they salivated at the prize of" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1943163176595464385) 2025-07-10T04:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@4thSnake start yet with AI) to increasingly suffocate and squeeze voice actors out of survival. We're not going to see our favorite voice actors make it if the industry keeps going the way it is. It's going to get to the point that we're not going to see any actors outside the rank and" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1943163305662599592) 2025-07-10T04:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@4thSnake file "big name" movie or tv celebrities almost anywhere. If any voice actors survive it will be the ones already steeped inside the corporate system ala Funimation-Crunchyroll (which is owned by Sony). This is a precarious descent we are watching just as fans. We haven't been" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1943163355079799271) 2025-07-10T04:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@cloudiemcdoom I do. It's John Heinecke once again up to his usual antics. For those that don't follow the video game marketing scene as closely as do Heinecke is Square's chief publishing officer formerly chief marketing officer. The industry knows him best as Activision Blizzard's most" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1943206101022904530) 2025-07-10T07:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@cloudiemcdoom powerful figure responsible for their marketing campaigns. Few people were ever as powerful inside Activision Blizzard as Heinecke. Almost everything that has to do with Act-Blizz' modern marketing campaigns outside of Kotick rests on his shoulders. He is arguably one of the most" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1943206171722060277) 2025-07-10T07:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@cloudiemcdoom influential people few have ever heard of by name that has sculpted video game marketing the way we know it and see it today. He was the one responsible for slapping Act-Blizz logos on every Doritos bag Mountain Dew bottle variations of that within sight in grocery stores. He" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1943206224805105761) 2025-07-10T07:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@cloudiemcdoom was the one that wouldn't leave me alone with seeing Act-Blizz commercials in food form around a decade ago. His style of marketing is extremely BIG. Act-Blizz doesn't know the meaning of small scale and not when it comes to the nearly billion dollar expense they lavish on" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1943206324482826382) 2025-07-10T07:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@cloudiemcdoom marketing. Everything is designed to be in your face and inescapable. The brand is on everything and anything. It is a relentless assault on you to never be able to look away from a brand. If it can fit anywhere it will find a way to be there. Heinecke is https://www.statista.com/statistics/1243359/activision-blizzard-ad-expense/#::text=In%202022%2C%20gaming%20company%20Activisioncompany's%20highest%20ad%20spend%20yet" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1943206400143855810) 2025-07-10T07:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@cloudiemcdoom responsible for that "little" FF7 cross promotion with Magic. John Hight is the newly minted President of Wizards of the Coast since [----]. He previously served as executive producer and vice president and then general manager of World of/Warcraft. Talk about calling on old" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1943206468255191184) 2025-07-10T07:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@cloudiemcdoom churning factory assembly like that. I don't get excited and swept up in shivering blissful delight seeing Sephiroth's black wings emblazed on a shoe. What I see is my love for a character being milked ash bone dry to the highest bidder. Heinecke never tends to stray too far from" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1943206781791904061) 2025-07-10T07:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@cloudiemcdoom old Act-Blizz contacts so I can naturally assume someone that was formerly in there can be called on for favors inside Nike. I find this kind of political level theater campaigning gross. And I'm just talking more about Heinecke's everyday "field work"" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1943206867917811730) 2025-07-10T07:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@smith_john38727 @Bryan51287 @PokeDailyPost I was fortunate to be able to track down the original Japanese version around a decade ago. 4Kids never did simply one or two minor alterations. These versions are entirely different movies. It's not even just the story that's overhauled the characters are nowhere near like what" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1944249774493856073) 2025-07-13T04:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@smith_john38727 @Bryan51287 @PokeDailyPost they're supposed to be. Mewtwo in the Japanese version is more of an antihero than an outright villain. He is still callous and indifferent to humans but he never plans a genocide of the entire human and Pokemon race. He creates the clones to more or less create a family for" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1944249840151515161) 2025-07-13T04:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@smith_john38727 @Bryan51287 @PokeDailyPost himself. He doesn't want to be alone in his existence any longer. (And that further explains why he attempted the cloning process again for Charmander Bulbasaur and Squirtle the first friends in his life he lost before birth). Mew's adorable preciousness is mostly a ruse. He" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1944249899861639665) 2025-07-13T04:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@smith_john38727 @Bryan51287 @PokeDailyPost flits around Mewtwo not taking him seriously. Mewtwo is aware of this and is beyond pissed off. When Mew sends the "shadow ball" (before there officially was such a move) hurling back to Mewtwo the gloves are basically off now. Mew completely drops the act and turns serious. He" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1944249967612248315) 2025-07-13T04:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@smith_john38727 @Bryan51287 @PokeDailyPost gets dangerous. He makes it known to Mewtwo he finds the clones' existence abhorrent to the natural order of things. Even Mewtwo's "parent"/genetic twin the one thing he holds close to that rejects him. Mew and the other natural Pokemon lock in with an intent to kill their" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1944250030854222039) 2025-07-13T04:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@smith_john38727 @Bryan51287 @PokeDailyPost counterparts and vice versa. If you take 4Kids' alterations at face value it goes against Mew as who they present him to be. He has no reason to fight Mewtwo. He should be the one rallying to stop it not the one who helps incite the possible death of these Pokemon" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1944250204447707234) 2025-07-13T04:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@RiseFallNickBck That is something so profound a lot of so called "adult" movies don't know how to touch. Both Hogarth and The Giant are suffering an existential crisis with watching a deer die from the hands of hunters. The Giant was programmed to kill. That was all he ever was created to do. He" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1944295562863342051) 2025-07-13T07:19Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@RiseFallNickBck wasn't supposed to question or feel bad about it. No other "giant" ever gained that kind of sentience before. But this deer died not even as a casualty from the battlefield. It only died due to hunters' boredom and a need to make the kill a sport. That's definitely what pushed" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1944295623911678301) 2025-07-13T07:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@RiseFallNickBck The Giant and Hogarth over the edge about it. The deer died without purpose. It is the nature of life that life will eventually pass. Hogarth as a child raised in the throes of the Cold War especially understands this as the truth. He is raised with so much uncertainty and fear" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1944295700394549372) 2025-07-13T07:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@RiseFallNickBck how long he will be alive for. He lives on such fragile precariousness with life. He is explaining what he knows to be true in a way only he can that death shouldn't be feared. You can't live that way fearing what is an inevitable part of existence. It's only wrong to take a life" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1944295814920028353) 2025-07-13T07:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@RiseFallNickBck as if it doesn't matter. Hogarth is inadvertently sharing this with a machine programmed to do nothing but destroy. He is giving The Giant a purpose a meaning he never had. He gets The Giant to understand a soul in a way not even a lot of human beings would be able to impart" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1944295963386163451) 2025-07-13T07:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@RiseFallNickBck It is pretty terrible how despite how falsely induced that bliss was this was the first time in a long time Marlin was allowed to be happy. He didn't know how to be after Coral died. His life was ruled with so much terror and fear he didn't know how to show his son happiness" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1944302856510796171) 2025-07-13T07:48Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@leonsminx Ashley in Resident Evil [--] Remake is such a substantial and remarkable human improvement from her obnoxious monster of a predecessor. They were able to humanize her and make her likable without having to change much of who she already is. She is still an everyday girl who has no" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1944321546652135452) 2025-07-13T09:02Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@Maxiie83 What I love about the relationships in Resident Evil and DMC is for most of them you can lean towards this is a powerful close friendship or they hold romantic feelings for each other and either perspective is perfectly valid. Jill and Chris and Claire and Leon are close in a" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1944480717083209810) 2025-07-13T19:35Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@crystarius @joshuaseth Voice actors don't get residuals for video games either. Glynnis Talken Campbell said she was paid only $500 for her entire work on the first Starcraft and then $1500 for Starcraft II (check her Facebook). .when she was ultimately pushed out to make room for Trisha Helfer. " [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1945122949368799378) 2025-07-15T14:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "can't be anything else but a callous corporate's fleeting whim. An executive a marketer like Ryan Lacina holds no business nor purpose in injecting themselves into the casting process. It's an obscene disgusting overreach of power and control. They strongarm people into" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1945217152153219354) 2025-07-15T20:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "compliance and unwavering blind obedience. To be blunt they don't care who is left hurt destroyed over this. Their decisions are never made for the betterment of creativity. It's a callous calculation treating human beings as statistics. It's self serving" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1945217453220405455) 2025-07-15T20:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@MidnightKolrath It's further indication Dante is holding considerably back against Nero. He had several opportunities during this fight to cause serious fatal damage to Nero but chose not to. Nero is throwing everything at his disposal at Dante and to Dante he is being extremely cautious about" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1945362352003530838) 2025-07-16T05:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@tiratiramimi Both versions of the Pokemon [----] movie present him as very clearly male. If it's true Lugia was supposed to be more of a maternal figure (which was not seen until later in Johto) it's just one of those other things the executives and people attached behind the series either" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1952211308943704068) 2025-08-04T03:33Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@Yugiman101 That's a long complex story. Americanized whitewashing aside but still part of it Jouinchi has a more direct more coarse more "rude" way of talking. 4Kids decided to translate this over as a Brooklyn accent. Wayne Grayson is very authentically from Brooklyn" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1952468613350175006) 2025-08-04T20:36Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "consulting the fans. These executives are exploiting good faith naievity the Japanese side can remain hands off where the Japanese side pays them on the head and sends them on their own expecting these executives are naturally reigning themselves in. It's much the way an" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1955742494853095457) 2025-08-13T21:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "irresponsible parent would leave their kids in an unlocked play pen assuming they don't need a babysitter/an adult figure present and they won't get up into too much trouble while they're away. On the same coin of the coin they're arguing these executives will always make the" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1955742496660603181) 2025-08-13T21:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@mrnash1227 @BlazeBinges I think Batman more caught Superman by complete surprise. It's visibly clear Superman wasn't expecting Batman to throw him around the room. Superman came into the situation expecting Batman to be an altruistic compassionate hero much like him. He didn't peg Batman as someone to" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1956851370977280337) 2025-08-16T22:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@mrnash1227 @BlazeBinges play dirty to a fellow colleague in a cape. Superman at least understood Batman is keenly sharply aware and smart. He is known as the World's Greatest Detective after all. He would know Superman is an alien granted the powers of a god. Superman's strength often is enough to" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1956851445472362545) 2025-08-16T22:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@ChikoritaCheez That still doesn't help glaring inconsistencies like when Ash met Articuno in Pokemon [----] but in a later Johto episode loses all knowledge an Articuno even exists. Ash first meets a Suicune (if not the exact same one since there's only supposed to be one of each Legendary" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1957625669594280285) 2025-08-19T02:08Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@ChikoritaCheez dog. .beast. .) at the beginning of Johto. He remeets Suicune later when Team Rocket shatters the bell keeping the peace between Pokemon and humans. .He loses all knowledge of that in Pokemon 4Ever. Mewtwo's time with Giovanni is directly linked between the" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1957625820563878079) 2025-08-19T02:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@ChikoritaCheez first season and Pokemon The First Movie. It was always perfectly clear the movies all took place at some point in their respective arcs. It's more irritating how the writers refused to keep the internal consistency where this ever had to be a doubtful question" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1957625900444578050) 2025-08-19T02:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@TheRealPit0 @SapphicallyAly The idea behind Mega Evolution is that it's supposed to be a push beyond a Pokemon's physical extremes and limitations. They can't evolve any further but you could say they use that dormant power to briefly change form. It will enhance the body based on a feature that already" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1958644853492822207) 2025-08-21T21:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@TheRealPit0 @SapphicallyAly exists. Blaziken turns much more into a lean fighter raring to go. Victreebel is already renowned for its powerful acid. With nowhere for the excess energy to go from the brief transportation it strengthens and enhances the poisonous acid. Its body likely turns into 90% acid" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1958644971759706525) 2025-08-21T21:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@TheRealPit0 @SapphicallyAly based on its appearance. The acid wouldn't hurt it since Victreebel is basically a Venus fly trap. It just has a harder time controlling the acid from getting everywhere as a Mega" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1958645110557548931) 2025-08-21T21:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "I don't know how obscure this is anymore but it is too incredibly fun to not share. Mark Ruffalo was nearly cast as the first English Cloud Strife in Kingdom Hearts. Mark Ruffalo's agent wanted him in the game so bad he invited Ned Lotte the casting and https://m.youtube.com/watchv=f5sTJq4Iysg Whats your most obscure Kingdom Hearts fact https://t.co/EXycD97A2B https://m.youtube.com/watchv=f5sTJq4Iysg Whats your most obscure Kingdom Hearts fact https://t.co/EXycD97A2B" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1961107450679206129) 2025-08-28T16:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Voice director for the first KH to a screening of Robert Redford's The Last Castle and which starred Steve Burton as a young blue eyed more innocent soldier serving the wrong side. Lotte watched the movie where it dawned on him he knew he found the right Cloud. And it wasn't" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1961107455254872533) 2025-08-28T16:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "☺ It's even better to appreciate when you have @georgenewbern as THE Sephiroth. (Yes the emphasis is required and utmost necessary.) His Sephiroth can both make me feel both like hissing with my hair raised like a cat and chirping dancing on my bean toes like a happy cat. That Daily Sephiroth Appreciation Post #613 https://t.co/psxKyxmgAk Daily Sephiroth Appreciation Post #613 https://t.co/psxKyxmgAk" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1961536734610825484) 2025-08-29T21:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@RelevantGoon Resident Evil is running into a typical zombie apocalypse series problem: moving the world forward in a meaningful positive direction. The zombie apocalypse part and the ruin and devastation of the world that came before is way too easy to delve into" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1963724814381650005) 2025-09-04T22:04Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "@RelevantGoon domination much like he is. Leon is now [--] years old. Chris is even older. RE5 already all but wiped Chris out as a character and he hasn't really had much significance past RE6. Does Leon wish to continue on in the military until he physically can't anymore Claire is the most" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1963725385348022395) 2025-09-04T22:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@RelevantGoon consistent in that she'll help anyone in need however she is able to zombies or no zombies. But what purpose or story are the majority of the characters seeking This was a problem as far back as 5/6 Capcom has been unwilling to solve: how to move this series forward in" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1963725568597246234) 2025-09-04T22:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@RelevantGoon a significant meaningful direction. [--] and Villages were soft reboots intended to revitalize a quickly failing series. But creatively no one involved really has solved that issue with what the point is with continuing the series. If Wesker simply can no longer die and he will" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1963725744401691092) 2025-09-04T22:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@RelevantGoon continue on terrorizing the world. .what is the point No zombies can go on forever despite how Robert Kirkman certainly tried with The Walking Dead. There needs to be a point to continue a series and Capcom is quickly running out of slack for that very thing" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1963725780158144972) 2025-09-04T22:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@ProfNoctis It is true Nier and Nier Automata are both interlinked as part of Drakengard's wider multiverse. However the Nier titles are standalone enough you don't have to have tried the Drakengard games to enjoy them. Nier and Automata are different enough you don't have to necessarily go" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1963800491701518816) 2025-09-05T03:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@ProfNoctis into Automata knowing anything about its predecessor. It will be just a little more extra rewarding if you do with all the references they include from "Gestalt"/Replicant in Automata" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1963800850578788697) 2025-09-05T03:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@BasedEmetSelch @TheReunionVII @Grummz John Heinecke is a figure that Kern may never have personally met but may or may not have heard about in passing through association. Kern left Blizzard in [----]. Heinecke is an Activision transplant that moved over to the company in [----] right before the merger but the same year" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1968346169408639369) 2025-09-17T16:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "This all runs actively AGAINST the job and role he's assigned for. He's ignoring all perspectives that either don't concern him doesn't align with his ideologies or he simply will not respond to. His job as the top dog pecking order marketer is to invite feedback This is the unprofessionalism I speak of at SE. People get fired for less at our regular jobs yet we have Heinecke an executive being dismissive about market concerns. Isnt that his job to report market research to Japan Hes filtering it because he deems it pathetic. https://t.co/Prb6Gw2ZbU This is the unprofessionalism I speak of at" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1968452818655649821) 2025-09-17T23:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "and constrictive criticism for the company to take to heart and use to improve themselves. He is not doing. .the very job he was trained and promoted to do. A lot of fans grumbled over the years how Activision-Blizzard was no longer in tune with the wants" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1968452893213622462) 2025-09-17T23:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "and needs of its own fans. Activision-Blizzard only cared about the size of their shareholders' pocketbooks. *Presents John Heinecke for the spotlight parade* You're looking straight at one of the most key figures in allowing that to happen. Heinecke first brought himself" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1968452966815277343) 2025-09-17T23:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "during his time at Blizzard involved global brand managing. He was the one coming to Kotick or prior to the merger Paul W. Sams (Blizzard's COO) presenting how sales charts and figures. *This guy* was the one of the people turning a blind eye" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1968453090140463541) 2025-09-17T23:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "to fans and encouraging that behavior among the combined company. It's always important to remember Heinecke wasn't raised by a Blizzard upbringing but Activision's. That makes the world of difference. Everything we see from him now everything he is as an executive is who" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1968453235418492971) 2025-09-17T23:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Campbell could only surmise her removal was "couched" as a top down Activision-Blizzard decision. She never knew who drove the decision or the people behind it. She couldn't have known Blizzard minted a brand new global brand manager in [----]. how to install a celebrity in a high profile game and make the matter of the and the original actress disappear. how to install a celebrity in a high profile game and make the matter of the and the original actress disappear" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1968454220505305449) 2025-09-17T23:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "2007 was before the merger was finalized but still being discussed heavily behind the scenes. It was still the right time you can point to John Heinecke being inside Blizzard. He held more direct contact with Metzen than Kotick ever would. Heinecke would be" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1968454316752072849) 2025-09-17T23:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "within Metzen's close circle of influence and personal "advisers." How Easy would it be for a marketer like Heinecke to pick up on Metzen's favorite shows Helfer was an actress on VivendiUniversal (through Universal Studios) roster since Universal" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1968454381499453678) 2025-09-17T23:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "produced Battlestar Galactica. A celebrity actress from VivendiUniversal that is brought in right in the midst of a finalized merger WITH VivendiUniversal. .that's awfully convenient timing. How easy is it for Heinecke to have whispered in Metzen's ear they have the contacts to" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1968454503658652076) 2025-09-17T23:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "get Helfer in the game as long as Metzen complied with the arrangement People may argue if this was yet another shameless corporate power move why didn't Activision-Blizzard replace far more established actors We can thank Kotick for that one" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1968454576593359191) 2025-09-17T23:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Kotick was uninterested and uninvested in Hollywood dreams for the longest time. He preferred to stay on his own turf where he knew the power was secure. Movies/TV were Universal's game. The grift potentially was to butter Blizzard up to warm them get Helfer in the game as long as Metzen complied with the arrangement People may argue if this was yet another shameless corporate power move why didn't Activision-Blizzard replace far more established actors We can thank Kotick for that one. get Helfer in the game as long as Metzen complied with the arrangement People may argue if this was yet" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1968454647179272683) 2025-09-17T23:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "to the idea to a buyout as Kotick first proposed and when VivendiUniversal insisted on the merger it became about appeasing VivendiUniversal and Blizzard. An actress left the industry and another actor was fired for years for what would be corporate maneuvering" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1968454750753435975) 2025-09-17T23:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "If Heinecke didn't command participation with Campbell and Clotworthy. .he still had to have known about it all the same. He was in charge of the Blizzcon Helfer was rolled out on the red carpet to the public for. As the marketer he directly communicated with the press" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1968454841874661759) 2025-09-17T23:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "about the game. He would tell everyone involved with the game and the press how to address the casting removal. .or not to. .Heinecke now welds more power and influence over an entire company than he even did at Activision-Blizzard" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1968454890058891325) 2025-09-17T23:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@DashAttackVT @MarkMann777 @TheReunionVII This is a former top executive at Activision-Blizzard we're talking about here. A great deal of that company's dirty laundry was aired out as par for the sexual harassment lawsuit. The paint on that picture shows an environment that ran akin to" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1968476166089539842) 2025-09-18T00:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@TheReunionVII @ZrxStench @voicearchivist A lot of people still don't tend to understand Advent Children was made in a far different than the era we're in now. The English direction was seeking to achieve accuracy with the script. .while still adhering to constraints of tight controlled lip syncing AND take" [X Link](https://x.com/pwu80d/status/1968786831048126687) 2025-09-18T21:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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"Not only does @JamiesonPrice have the perfect suitable svelte velvety voice for Reeve Tuesti he also captures Reeve's gentleness. A brave idealistic man of honor courage and a hidden heart. Arguably Cait Sith's true heart and soul. #OperationReunion #FinalFantasyVIIRemake"
X Link 2019-10-31T02:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@georgenewbern I'd also add you never "lose" as long as you go in with an open heart. As long as your heart burns it is what will and should carry you. You will not know "failure" if you keep learning and keep the heart alive"
X Link 2023-06-29T20:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@samanthaflynnx I know this isn't entirely the point but Cameo exists. At conventions most voice actors are pretty down with (paid) video requests. Quinton has done a couple fun YouTube things for people who officially asked. He is incredibly receptive to these things"
X Link 2023-07-09T20:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@PROJ_Sephiroth @StarOcean They first did this for Star Ocean First Departure R four years ago. Same thing. Outright openly advertised to have multiple cast options both times. To be fair Square has never officially said it CAN'T be done. They have more than proven especially with the CCR "bug" they CAN"
X Link 2023-07-19T06:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@phoenixmiko Max Dood asserted they were originally brought in. If you picked this up anywhere else please let me know. I'd love to know who else said this. I dont know why that information was given to him but I do believe it was and the info is sound"
X Link 2023-08-12T21:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"I do want to say @blumspew is one of THE greatest voice actors you will find. His pick as Vincent Valentine was flawless and perfectly natural. There couldn't have been anyone better to handle him. He is the one. Thank you for defining Vincent and being definitive for him"
X Link 2023-09-15T03:52Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@PROJ_Sephiroth @MorikunRinari A great deal of spiders are gentle creatures. It is beneficial to have those gentle spiders around to get rid of nasty pests. Some people do keep big spiders as pets even if I still don't understand that. They are highly intelligent and sometimes sweet"
X Link 2023-09-22T19:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"While I agree the Internet shouldn't shut down over this I understand where the criticism is coming from and it's valid. Cait Sith is the name of a mythological creature. "Ours" owes its namesake to the mythological creature. When you have names rooted in the real world or has"
X Link 2023-10-04T00:55Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Now THAT'S a Reno introduction for me. When I discovered Advent Children for the first time I'm smiling like I love this guy already. You already know a great deal about Reno. He's slick. He's a smooth charmer you have to stay on your toes with. He will"
X Link 2023-10-10T22:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@MorikunRinari Who is their source for this There are two One More Games. One is a YouTuber but I could find nothing about them asking anything to Nomura about this. There is another One More Game that is a remote start up dev. They say they have team members that were formerly part of"
X Link 2023-10-14T16:35Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@MorikunRinari Warcraft Diablo AND Starcraft. Hello Activision-Blizzard I don't know what a start up's interest would be in knowing who Vincent is. Whoever asked even if Nomura knows he can't say. The people in charge of cast announcements is MARKETING. The game dev would know this"
X Link 2023-10-14T16:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Vigilant on the social media playground because marketing/PR has footprints coating the ground. Official social media accounts tend to be run by the company's social media coordinator. The SMC is part of the marketing/PR division. They would take their orders from the leader of"
X Link 2023-10-23T00:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"That department. Even more important to be careful over what Square's PR/marketing has to say considering the person in charge of all of it may have held a considerable key role in the cast removal. I have no doubt a former Activision-Blizzard marketer would be top pack of the"
X Link 2023-10-23T00:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Petrajayne26 Because of this and because his mother was never shown otherwise I legit thought with 4Kids that Yugi was an orphan being raised by his grandfather. 4Kids created the Shadow Realm as a euphemism for death. And yet they had me believing Yugi's parents are dead"
X Link 2023-12-07T22:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Nidorom I recommend Radiant Historia Perfect Chronology. I was happy to find this jewel. A classic rpg (even has turn based). Handles its story extremely well. (Minus the fan fic ending.) And is absolutely gutwrenching. You will be ruined and cry pretty hard"
X Link 2023-12-22T17:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@MagicalGirlOTD It won't happen as long as Viz holds the rights but I wish even the original English movies would get a high quality treatment. The movies didn't have to deal with as much censorship as the show so outside a few needless changes the original English movies are quite good"
X Link 2023-12-24T21:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@AllieRX They got bought because Microsoft needed the sales to push more Series X. I don't think Starfield is as bad a game to warrant deep seated hatred. But nor is it particularly innovative. It probably hits somewhere under the "aight" register"
X Link 2023-12-29T19:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Ace_of_Schrades Not the point but given how massive Groudon is. .HOW does he fit into even an Ultra Ball How much magic squeezing does it take to keep him in there Just something to muse over. Those Pokeballs are built to fit an almost literal red Godzilla in real nice"
X Link 2023-12-30T11:53Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@Rcb626R With the things that are strangely silent like with this segment I've been told the Japanese cast originally recorded for those. The English cast didn't. Ito could've had a scheduling problem where she couldn't come in for the game at the time. Cook likely just wasn't asked"
X Link 2024-01-01T18:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Rcb626R However they made sure to bring Ito back in for Crisis Core Reunion. Baron was brought in instead of Cook. It would've made more sense to bring the original cast in to complete the work they just didn't do for Crisis Core. Money wise that made more sense. But they spent a great"
X Link 2024-01-01T18:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"I feel so bad for Chris Edgerly. Those who don't know he's Pathfinder in Apex Legends. (And naturally the original English Cid Highwind.) He regularly streams Apex Legends so he's as much of a player/fan as he is as an actor in there. He was part of an untransparent entire cast #FF7R has been summoned to the Outlands Drop in starting Jan [--] to experience a takeover event featuring the Buster Sword Materia Hop-Ups and Iconic new skins. ✨: https://t.co/8C7IEYTv4W https://t.co/BYoXSZgjRt #FF7R has been summoned to the Outlands Drop in starting Jan [--] to experience a takeover event featuring the"
X Link 2024-01-04T20:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Removal. And now the situation has to intrude inside a game he holds near and dear. Why are we even getting an Apex Legends/FF7R crossover Im glad you asked. 😊 Sometimes it helps to follow the money. Apex Legends is produced and published by Respawn Entertainment an EA first"
X Link 2024-01-04T20:48Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Party publisher. Respawn was founded by Jason West and Vince Zampella. The same ones behind Infinity Ward. Infinity Ward is one of Activision-Blizzard's biggest video game developers. So once again this ties back to the top dog of Square marketing John"
X Link 2024-01-04T20:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@samanthaflynnx I knew about Jesse McCartney way before anything related to Roxas. His original band Dream Street even had a song in the Pokemon [----] soundtrack. Wild. This is probably my favorite song of his. It's a straight up banger"
X Link 2024-01-07T02:54Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@MadCapMunchkin I disagree for the original PS3 since it offered full backwards compatibility. But overall I do agree that each successive generation cuts back more features for an even bigger price tag. Games that may deliberately be missing content now cost $70. Min"
X Link 2024-01-09T12:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Syd Barrett. According to the album's story the industry/"the machine" played a critical part in Syd's demise. The real machine is the system. "What did you dream It's all right we told you what to dream." This is becoming even more startling in its truth. This is a song that"
X Link 2024-01-09T20:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Could have been made not from a machine but human beings. An AI doesn't have Roger Waters' songwriting. If you told the machine to write a song in the style of this song it'd likely come out something like "Salutations my kin. Usher close to the mechanation." The music wouldn't"
X Link 2024-01-09T20:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Gekko_Amario @TaraSandsVO @Variety Another voice actor talked about this. I'm paraphrasing a little. According to him SAG is more interested in looking out for its "first class citizens." Me: Celebrities. Celebrities and high profile staff and crew already got more of what they wanted with the last strike"
X Link 2024-01-09T22:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Gekko_Amario @TaraSandsVO @Variety Voice actors were left out to hang with the current SAG agreement even before this. And what this does prior to the video game contract negotiations is further undercut voice actors from any real bargaining power for better quality changes. SAG hasn't protected them through this"
X Link 2024-01-09T22:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@arkclaimer I even wonder how the Paradox beasts fit with the Legendary beasts. The beasts are reincarnated from their previous forms due to Ho oh. How did this funky little timey whimey (Doctor Who) shenanigans cause the beasts to come out like. .this"
X Link 2024-01-10T22:11Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@VikkitheVA Not only was this not put up for a vote among union members the actors were not consulted at any point in the process. No one knew until this story went public. I've honestly never seen any union betray its members like this. It's gobsmacking in its cruelty. It even undercuts"
X Link 2024-01-11T19:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@VikkitheVA The actors' negotiating power right before the video game negotiations are coming up. That a union would do this to its own people. .I've witnessed the discussions from every angry. No one is happy about this. But a lot of actors will stay in the union since even though the"
X Link 2024-01-11T19:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@AutumnRaptor1 The sad thing is with a burst of originality and creativity it could've been something special. Monster catching/raising/battling games are my jam and fatal weakness. But it's stealing is so obvious it robs even any joy out what could've been something cool"
X Link 2024-01-18T00:20Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@BlocksSega Social media tends to exacerbate our greatest insecurities and darkest instincts. It's like the online version of high school part II. You shouldn't compromise who you are for the sake of people (strangers) especially online strangers. They don't know you or know your true beauty"
X Link 2024-01-18T02:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@FF8_Garden I wouldn't say FF8 isn't a fan favorite. It has enough true strengths to have a place in the "pantheon" regardless of if someone doesn't care for it. But yes. This is some Uematsu's most impeccable work on top of his already sterling touch"
X Link 2024-02-04T17:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@ObsoleteSony The PS1 wasn't my first console or even my first Playstation and this is inarguable to me. Ominous without being overbearing. It feels like a tingle in your bones. It feels like a surging deep plunge into something special and powerful"
X Link 2024-02-06T03:00Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Meta_Bro1 @TheAbbeyRoadie Bob saved a man from committing suicide . .and the guy sued him for his right to die. Part of the reason the heroes went under. .is because people kept suing them for trying to help. That's a little TOO on point if we had superheroes. Way too sadly right and too close"
X Link 2024-02-19T05:10Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Welp that conforms a Sephiroth exists in this universe outside Cloud's Heartless. That brings up a LOT of questions over where that Sephiroth is. And what happened to Zack in this universe. No one makes any mention of him later on. What is his connection to Cloud Is he alive Why isn't he with Aerith if he's alive But Lil Zack is so unbelievably adorable. Rick Gomez is still sublime for Zack. (Yes it's still him in Birth by Sleep.) He makes Lil Zack even more unbelievably precious. And be definitely do a far younger Zack Fair of asked"
X Link 2024-04-10T19:18Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
""Consolidation" as I see it being called on social is about not only cutting costs but funneling the money that came out of these studios that would've gone to make other games so the top executives can picked a few extra bonuses. That's the name of the game with this. Although Redfall didn't do nearly as well asexpected Arkane Austin was a thriving studio. Tango Gameworks released HI Fi rush to both critical and sales success. There was no creative or even valid fimancial reason why these studios got delivered the axe. The only reason they got axed is basically so the Microsoft executives"
X Link 2024-05-08T03:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"This site has been advocating and championing for these actors for five years ever since June [--] [----]. They've deeply and meticulously researched so many details covering this situation and about the video game industry. They know their stuff. The Sony influence over Square is another extensive conversation but they've looked into this. Sony pushing Square to pull an entire cast is based off research and knowledge Sony has a great deal of power and control over Square for at least the last six years that is still not properly understood and disclosed. And if ever you want the deep dive over"
X Link 2024-05-15T04:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Oh it's a lot more than they that simply "lent" their services to help Stellar Blade get created. It's a particularly devious practice Sony has done over the last few years that has never been properly disclosed or recognized over the years. They say games like Stellar Blade are Playstation "exclusive." What they're not disclosing the reason for that is that these games are effectively Sony games. Once Sony moves over to direct money to development they become a co developer/financer of the game. That would mean Stellar Blade is never coming to XBOX or Switch. It can't unless Sony grants"
X Link 2024-05-25T23:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Sony has only pulled the interview and admitted to the "errors" only after Druckmann came forward to show what he actually said. And after Druckmann was publicly wrung and dragged through the mud on the eyes of social media "court." Sony didn't simply just "condense" the interview. They reworked it and inserted things in. What they're not letting on is that these alterations had to go through the chain of command. Someone at the top had to look at this altered interview approve it and agree for it to be published in that shape. The question is why. Why did they alter the interview at all What"
X Link 2024-05-29T16:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"I'll grant this may be considered "controverstial" but let's go back to John Eric Bentley's story over how he was chosen to be Barret. He says Rita Kedineoglu not only personally auditioned him through his process but in this deleted and taken off the internet completely original Morning Game Brew video he goes further qnd says Rita personally requested he audition for Barret. Based on what the Casting [---] article has to share about theUdifiom process there's no way that could've happened where a casting director would personally request any act9r to audition. Not only does that strike a"
X Link 2024-09-09T00:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"We have a lot to be thankful for with what Takeshi Shudo brought to Pokmon. The guy was never infallible though and he had a lot of questionable ideas for series as much as he had legitimately good ones. I hate what he had to say about Misty in particular. He not only appeared to hold a cold disdain and resentment to her but he was the one who championed the push to remove her from the series arguing she was not a well fleshed out enough character. The anime had fallen off a cliff starting with Johto Champions amd a great deal of the original staff and crew of the show were on their way out"
X Link 2024-09-15T22:13Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"There are people who believe Nintendo/Gamefreak deserve to be plagiarized. They did it to themselves for running the Pokmon franchise into the ground and this is what they have earned and won out of it. What they don't understand is that someone plagiarizing someone else this brazenly and openly is not going to lead to better games. It only makes games worse for it. It sends the signal that this is okay and actively encouraged that people plagiarize as much as they want. Particularly if you have a score to dig in with a developer. Encouraging and cheering plagiarism isn't going to make"
X Link 2024-09-19T15:15Z [---] followers, 19.7K engagements
"It's very hard to say and that much over what Team Asobi publicly offered is the truth of it. What makes this odder is that Square put out an Apex Legends x FF7 crossover earlier this year (part of the courtesy certainly helps that John Heinecke knows the founders of Infinity Ward and Respawn Entertainment from their time together over at Activision-Blizzard) with little issue and very big promotion on it. Companies need around an eight-12 month period to implement and fully bake in a crossover so Square's current financial woes would be highly unlikely to have played any part in refusing"
X Link 2024-09-30T22:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Vincent says in the original FF7 he had slept in the coffin for [--] years. Lucrecia was pregnant with Sephiroth during the time Vincent was forced into this basically a coma so that puts Seph's age around 29-30. (The Crisis Core muses Gemesis is "around 25" for most of the story so you can "figure" Sephiroth is right around the same age.) It gives him enough time to become the esteem lauded Solider of all time and have the maturity and world experience to sharpen him as well as shatter him to pieces slowly and surely"
X Link 2024-10-11T14:37Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Probably so and the manga would've been wise to capitalize more on that idea. Giorno's existence is a peculiarity. He technically has two fathers equally contributing to his DNA. He would be at least 1/4 vampire with superhuman feats of strength. If Hamon was brought back he would inherit a lot of that talent from Jonathan. So he would be a dhampir who knows Hamon and also a Stand user on top of it"
X Link 2024-10-14T05:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"It's more than likely more so the games are assembly pressed on a mandated release schedule where they don't have the time to implement this back in. Every modern Pokmon game takes one step in a positive direction five backpedaling step next. They have no sense of consistent direction where they bring in a truly great idea (for me the Z moves in Sun and Moon) and don't ever do it again or they beat a good idea deep into the ground (Team Skull being the first region group not out for world conquest but just petty immature punks. We've seen this idea repeated at least two other times now. The"
X Link 2024-10-14T22:07Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Something happened starting in rhe PS4 generation: it started growing far longer for a console system to be worth the investment into it. The PS4 became worthy to invest in it around the time the PS4 Pro hit somewhere three-four years down the line. We're four years into the PS5 generation and I don't see it being worthy as an investment until likely the very end of its generation. You can argue the why's on this happening: longer production time required for big entry games further corporate consolidation of studios split and "shared" between Microsoft and Sony Hollywood executives sticking"
X Link 2024-10-24T17:36Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Dragon Age Origins looks more and more like a "lightning in a bottle" game. A dark masterful classic style game with some of the richest story branches and choices in all of video games. The game even lives up the "origin" part of its name. Each main character "class" comes with its own detailed and rich story completely different and unique from each other. The short answer to why Dragon Age couldn't keep up was that the majority of the people that made Bioware what it is left the company in droves. EA forced a speedy sequel that had to cut a tremendous amount of corners and suffered from"
X Link 2024-10-29T05:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Bradford Anderson revealed a tidbit that was never shown in the actual show that Spinelli grew up believing his grandmother was his actual mother. There is a story behind that that was never fully explored. Spinelli's past only comes out in shards but you get the feeling ge either didn't have a lot of close friends before he met Sam and Jason or the friends he did have were online. Sam was the reason Jason and Spinelli were able to meet. Knowing her allowed them to know each other and create one of the most powerful and geniune friendships in this series Sam and Jason not only gave Spinelli"
X Link 2024-11-02T22:21Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Lorenzo Alcazar was attempting to frame Sam to get her out of the way. He recently employed a certain Damien Spinelli for his purposes. Sam and Jason were tracking Spinelli down because a hacker of that skill level could be useful to them and to clear Sam's name. So it was because of Sam that there was urgency they needed to find Spinelli. Spinelli was introduced as someone tasked to help HER. Jason and Spinelli further bonded and grew close during the Metro Court hostage storyline (which also involved Alcazar to a certain extent.) But Spinelli first knew Sam and Jason first. Everyone he met"
X Link 2024-11-02T22:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Samara was tasked with the unenviable duty to kill her own daughter for a genetic defect she embraced and used to murder countless others. It wasn't the genetic defect that made Morinth a monster it was that she's an unapologetic psychopath. And Samara ultimately blamed herself for not only being able to save her daughter but was the one that passed this curse on to Morinth. Mass Effect [--] [--] Dragon Age early Bioware wasn't afraid of mature very nuanced and complex storytelling. They weren't afraid to go to some pretty dark places. Ie Even Thomas' story involving his father in Mass Effect [--] is"
X Link 2024-11-09T15:49Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"What has always been problematic is how this cast has been celebrated and adored. .at the complete expense of the original cast. This is always a difficult topic of conversation to breach because you run the risk of being labeled as a "hater" or more directly targeted as "not a true fan" and "not one of us" that holds some kind of grudge against this cast and harbor ill will towards them. That bringing up the original cast in the direction of this one is somehow inconsiderate and rude where you're being disgraceful to these people. This is not true. But ever since "day one" began where we all"
X Link 2024-11-23T00:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"As far as I can see with this post Nova didn't even tag Bentley with it. Twitter is such a huge ocean of people swimming around in it that not only are you not going to see everything in the waters but it's difficult to find someone if you aren't looking and know the where and the how's. So if Bentley wasn't tagged. .how did he find this if he wasn't looking for it already He wasn't mentioned by name but Beau Billingslea was. Which means he would be scrolling through Twitter using Beau Billingslea as a search option and gathering what people were talking about concerning the original Barret."
X Link 2024-11-27T00:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Actors always command a tremendous amount of clout influence and voice normal people don't touch. These actors very well realize their voice carries power a d influence wherever they walk and take themselves. Bentley asking a fan "not to hate" less than [--] hours after he has announced to be the next English Barret and after the fan said they basically just didn't dig his voice and they missed Beau Billingslea terribly is so significant and striking as a move to make. This is how he chose to introduce himself to this fan. Nova's first interaction and for all intentions and purposes meeting"
X Link 2024-11-29T21:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"They did it as an easy way to differentiate themselves from the obvious ones that came "before"-Tomb Raider and Uncharted both heavily inspired and influenced from the Indiana Jones trilogy. Now that they put a 1st person view in what should've been a nice slick 3rd person game look see It's different already. Based on the trailers so far this design choice doesn't merely affect looks. It severally restrains and represses gameplay design and choice. They didn't need to go full Arkham series on melee but it would've been nice to have a great deal of choices over how Indy can fight. If he would"
X Link 2024-12-06T04:18Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed. These 1980s graphics have not stood up to the test of time. It looks like a low rent budget action mov. .oh. The video game is the one on the top. 😂 Indiana Jones' cinematography remains as top notch and a beautiful touch as it always has. There's way too many good reasons the video game shouldn't have touched the movie in any way. One big reason being that Raiders of the Lost Ark is a (wonderful) movie. It's a self aware movie that in some ways realizes it's a movie and has a lot of playful fun with it. This opening alone balances a subtle cheeky"
X Link 2024-12-07T01:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"People that truly love you will never hate you for your power and your light. They love the person you are. They will love your strength and your bravery. They will support it and encourage it. They will work to nurture it how they can. People that love you want you to be strong. They want you to see yourself and love yourself the way they see you so clearly and love you so much for who you are"
X Link 2025-01-19T03:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"It's probably due to a few factors abd but specifically one. The major one is my eyes has to be the long overdue blowback from the release. Spiderman [--] did well upon release off the success and merits of the first game. Spiderman wasn't a perfect game. They took some unnecessary liberties with the established story and characters (I hated gow much they watered down and gutted Mr. Negative. Mr. Negative is supposed to be the Marvel equivalent to Two Face: a sweetpure hearted human individual consumed by a living darkness half. Turning Harry into Venom instead of Eddie Brock was. .questionable"
X Link 2025-01-31T03:05Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Sunworshipluna 🧵 This is tragically a recurring theme with the way Nomura is treated and regarded at Square. He I one of the rare precious few left at Square that give any shits. He is someone who tries and pulls geniune effort into what he does. Nomura very well should have been one of the"
X Link 2025-04-22T20:04Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Sunworshipluna most key essential people in actual charge after Sakaguchi departed rather than a man facing a ticking clock over if he'll even finish the Kingdom Hearts saga. Nomura's personal story over the last [--] years has been such royal increasing screw overs it's not even funny"
X Link 2025-04-22T20:05Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Sunworshipluna He was always one of the most essential people to Square's success. Toriyama contributed to the abysmally lunatic worse of the original FF7. Nomura brought out some of the very best of it. Nomura was never allowed to direct anything FF related outside Advent Children"
X Link 2025-04-22T20:06Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Sunworshipluna What should've happened once FF13 was completed and wrapped up FFVersus13 had its development prioritized. Instead Kitase and Toriyama continued to prioritize THEIR FF13 trilogy (when FF13 never invited being a trilogy to begin with) and only further chose to take on projects"
X Link 2025-04-22T20:06Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Sunworshipluna that would further divert money and resources away from Versus13. Versus13 wound up never seeing the light of day. Nomura was pulled off Versus13/15 and the new director decided to go in his own direction refusing to honor what Nomura spent languishing for [--] years to see"
X Link 2025-04-22T20:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Sunworshipluna Realized. It's painfully clear whatever involvement Nomura holds for the FF7R projects is little more than a glorified consultant. He is granted little to no ability to speak or have his input be regarded outside SOME of the character designs. I feel his duties"
X Link 2025-04-22T20:08Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Sunworshipluna with FF7R are akin to what Greg Weisman described was his involvement as a consultant for Gargoyles season three (the season everyone tries their best to forget): smacking his head against the wall and doing his best simply to steer the wreck to something even functional"
X Link 2025-04-22T20:08Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Sunworshipluna Nomura was the one who advocated for a faithful FF7 Remake. Kitase discarded that input and refused to listen to it. They were going to tell a new story Kitase demanded was necessary whether Nomura or the fans wanted this consented to this or are happy with this. The story"
X Link 2025-04-22T20:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Sunworshipluna regarding early life should always have been treated with love and passion. The idea was bristling with so much potential especially considering Glenn's impact on him and the story at large. But yet again the people involved refused to reign their egos in check"
X Link 2025-04-22T20:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Sunworshipluna They're going to ram everything through as THEIR way or not at all and to hell with the story or what Nomura and the fans have to say about it. At best First Solider is badly undercooked. At worse it's everything as f'd up as what we see with the FF7R trilogy"
X Link 2025-04-22T20:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Sunworshipluna The best case scenario is the people in actual charge have such a limited superficial understanding of these characters. More to the point they don't care. They hold no regard for this special story we love so much. They see it as product they can dismantle carve and reshape"
X Link 2025-04-22T20:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Sunworshipluna whim they feel like. People like Nomura who care are silenced and thrown on the backburner. It's embarrassing and deeply unprofessional especially givwn this is a Japanese conpany to watch someone essentially talk over Nomura out in the open and show what little respect he holds"
X Link 2025-04-22T20:12Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@LavenderGhast It's an all too familiar story on how catapulted fame destroys a person. You only need to look at the ugliness on what was done to Amy Hennig the very woman who helped put him right on the map to prove he and Straley were capable of handling their own game"
X Link 2025-05-06T16:40Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@LavenderGhast Druckmann amd Straley assert they were uninvolved with pushing Hennig out of Naughty Dog. Around [--] years later no one on the outside knows the full story of what happened to her. We just know the fallout and Druckmann and Straley were handed full control of Uncharted [--]. And"
X Link 2025-05-06T16:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@lofi_lover0930 Let me guess. Lady couldn't be bothered to be brought over to this reboot and a new original character was offered because Lady wasn't "strong enough." More so than the misogyny on display I don't know when it became popular to dump all over an original story. Tom Huelett was"
X Link 2025-05-06T20:05Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@vishgod69 Japan where Keith and Valerie Arem sought to find no one else than the best people they could for these characters the most essential the most pivotal the actors meant to play these characters. Persona [--] had a technically pre superstardom Troy Baker with one of his"
X Link 2025-05-29T05:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@vishgod69 finest and most special characters. Johnny Yong Bosch Tara Platt Yuri Lowenthal etc. they were all already well known and deeply loved voice actors whose love for their characters didn't have to be challenged. What we loved so dearly about these characters"
X Link 2025-05-29T05:38Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"idea her future as Peach wasn't secure and she was ever going to lose the character. It's not that Nintendo simply "couldn't get around" to telling her a thing about this until a few days ago. It was a careful deliberate choice on their part to keep Kelly out of knowing a word"
X Link 2025-06-07T07:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"that she was now gone quicker than the phone call they finally picked up to give her. They dropped this bombshell gutwrenching brutal termination notice. .as the very same day as the Nintendo Switch [--] release. That day should've been a joyous blissful celebration for Kelly"
X Link 2025-06-07T07:35Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"toasting a successful Switch [--] and Mario Kart World launch with her full on with the reigns as Peach again. Not a dark day brimmed with choked back tears and being told after nearly [--] years as the character she's just gone like that. .and they made an entire game without her"
X Link 2025-06-07T07:35Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"This isn't the first time an FF7R actor has altered their origin story on how they were picked for these characters. Cody Christian shared he was pulled into a secret audition. He had no idea what it was for. People over in Japan came in via a @RinoaUchiha Strange how the email for the audition was apparently addressed for another actress and she asked her agent if she could audition for it. I dont see how Rita chose her from the roster like she claimed in the Washington Post interview. @RinoaUchiha Strange how the email for the audition was apparently addressed for another actress and she"
X Link 2025-06-10T20:16Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Skype session and joined in on the process. He was provided no script no working codename title or a customary pamphlet containing key character art. He was given no instruction outside of playing out swinging a giant sword around as various enemies were coming at"
X Link 2025-06-10T20:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Christian's original story contradicts Britt Baron's she share on the same exact interview conducted by the same people behind it. Baron shares she went in knowing full well she was auditioning for Tifa. She even later went on so far to say she was "personally requested" to him. That was it. That was his complete audition. He told Fandom it was an audition he would never be able to forget. .https://t.co/bkZJnDv1UO Later on the story shifted over to an entirely different one. Christian pivoted over to now insisting him. That was it. That was his complete audition. He told Fandom it was an"
X Link 2025-06-10T21:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"audition. By who she's never said. Bentley offered a far more personal fleshed out version of those events to Morning Game Brew. Rita Skylark Studios (the localization studio Square contracts for FF7 and Kingdom Hearts projects) casting director"
X Link 2025-06-10T21:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"provided him with a name of the series she wanted him to throw himself in the running for. There are two main issues with the differing accounts if what transpired. Christian may not be using the secret audition story anymore but it is a story he freely put out there"
X Link 2025-06-10T21:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The basic truth of the matter is he changed his own story. The auditions would all fall around the same time with similar processes conditions and length of time. There is no reason for Skylark to hold a secret claesdine operation of an audition for ONE actor. "
X Link 2025-06-10T21:20Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@TheReunionVII @RGamerB_ This is directed to RGamer: How many sales for a two year old exclusive locked game nearly shadow dropped upon those same fans would it have taken for you If the game matched or exceeded the three million in three days release fans were"
X Link 2025-06-16T17:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@TheReunionVII @RGamerB_ allowed months of relentless targeted marketing to know about What you're not letting on is after those three day sales FF16 dropped like sand grain in the ocean. Square has refused to release official sales figures even if they were"
X Link 2025-06-16T17:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@TheCartelDel @SquareEnix OUT at all. There was no one telling them to keep a "back up" copy in the case of any future re-releases. It's similar to how a lot of early film has been lost for those reasons or outright obliterated by time. It's a big reason why the X/X-2 came out as"
X Link 2025-06-19T18:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@TheCartelDel @SquareEnix hideous and garish as they did: the remaster studio assigned to the project didn't have access to a back up copy so they were forced to redo the graphics from scratch. They just didn't nearly do the outstanding work as Bluepoint"
X Link 2025-06-19T18:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@TheReunionVII The difference is night and day between the releases. The PC lighting is washed out dulled and faded at the seams. It runs graphically weaker for a port released four years later. Normally ports have the advantage of tiny pieces of extra time money and https://www.pcmrace.com/2021/10/22/god-of-war-video-comparativo-pc-vs-ps5/ https://www.pcmrace.com/2021/10/22/god-of-war-video-comparativo-pc-vs-ps5/"
X Link 2025-06-22T17:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@TheReunionVII resources thrown at it. A remaster will typically look slightly prettier to the original release. Not like the game degraded a generation or two in that time. Sony would argue a four year after the fact PC is not capable of running at the power of a PS5. .When high end PCs are"
X Link 2025-06-22T17:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@PatzPowerz @TheReunionVII That's certainly what they wanted everyone to believe yes. The idea Square was advertising on how Tactics is fully voiced for the first time deliberately leans into the idea there was never any Tactics cast. They're up to their old ink scrawled tricks as"
X Link 2025-06-23T20:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@PatzPowerz @TheReunionVII per usual to erase out the truth a cast very much was there before. The PSP release of War of the Lions (which Square is trying to argue they can't use to port that version to modern console) very much DID have actors. The voice acting was much more limited in scale as a PSP"
X Link 2025-06-23T20:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@PatzPowerz @TheReunionVII Companies often shaved a few bucks out of the actors' pockets on PSP/Vita releases doing it that way. It's why Crisis Core Reunion serves as an extra slap in the face to the original cast. Not only were they blocked out of being retained even for work completed"
X Link 2025-06-23T20:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@PatzPowerz @TheReunionVII Square has pulled almost the exact same thing now with Tactics. And it STILL makes no sense how Square simply "can't" keep an original cast in tact even so much as for work already completed. .and spend far more than that to"
X Link 2025-06-23T20:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@PatzPowerz @TheReunionVII replace this entire cast for the sake of a remaster release. Phil LaMarr was (brought back) in for Dissidia NT for a reason. They didn't cast him just for Dissidia NT Ramza. He was ALWAYS Ramza up until this release"
X Link 2025-06-23T20:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@TheReunionVII @nichegamer From what I've seen of it Tactics' script didn't need to be "improved" all that much from what it already is. Much like FF12 there is such a keen eye to detail on how people in these medieval worlds converse. Jack Fletcher did a commendable on bringing that"
X Link 2025-06-24T01:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@StormDash_10 @BlazeBinges He didn't rake Foley over the coals about being racist towards him. At this point in his life Robert is more tired and fed up of people like Foley. He knows he can't change them. People only change if they want to. Robert will not bleed for the heart of a racist that isn't there"
X Link 2025-06-24T04:01Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@StormDash_10 @BlazeBinges What he is legitimately more heartbroken about IS how Foley treats his own son. He knows Foley's kind of hatred is so destructive if Richie won't be like that his dad will slowly kill him from the inside. Richie will eventually learn to hate not by racism but even hating his"
X Link 2025-06-24T04:02Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@StormDash_10 @BlazeBinges own father. Robert wishes for no one to live their lives in hate like that let alone someone he considers nearly as close as his own son. Foley's scowl at the end shows that he knows this is the truth even if he doesn't want to admit it"
X Link 2025-06-24T04:02Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Aquaslash2049 @BlazeBinges It's more to prove that no matter what choice she was presented she still took the one to save as many lives as she could that night. She could tell from Virgil that she had to be dead in the future. It's not that she believed the future couldn't happen for her. She was willing"
X Link 2025-06-25T07:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Aquaslash2049 @BlazeBinges to stay put like she promised her son. She realized she simply couldn't when she was radioed people were still in need of help. There were other people out there that could die that night. She couldn't allow the fear and uncertainty of her future prevent her from saving lives NOW"
X Link 2025-06-25T07:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@HoodlaMutt Here's something that not a lot of people tend to know. Working on soaps is more than a 9-5 with actors. It's often more 4/6 am to up to 6-8 pm every everyday for [--] straight weeks. Burton has to be more choosy over whatever extra projects"
X Link 2025-07-03T03:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@TheCartelDel Microsoft was the one who choose to put everything in the basket of what they have for XBOX with Game Pass. Game Pass was a gamble that laid everything on the line. Game Pass could never have been anything but an unmitigated success otherwise it would leave XBOX crumbled to the"
X Link 2025-07-06T08:16Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@TheCartelDel flames. This is truly terrible business making. Anyone with any kind of common sense with regular sensible business practices would be able to tell Microsoft this was a bad idea from go. Game Pass was untested and unproven to work before they rolled it out in full force. It"
X Link 2025-07-06T08:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Flutflut1 @jojo_wiki They changed NELLYVILLE. Okay I for sure know what that reference is. As a kid who loved Nelly in the early 2000s this makes me smile. It delights me that Nelly is getting some long lost and overdue love in some form and in Jojo no less. It's something of a sign of honor to be"
X Link 2025-07-06T08:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Flutflut1 @jojo_wiki a musician included for a Jojo character name. Part of the fun and the joy of Jojo is the music references. It's vital to the series' identity to be able to keep the reference in tact. Changing Santana to Saviento in the English dub was already stupid for more than one reason"
X Link 2025-07-06T08:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Flutflut1 @jojo_wiki One of them being that Santana is obviously the far greater name. Carlos Santana has been around forever and he is one of the all time classic greats. Who doesn't love the guitarist with the killer fingers Changing his name served no purpose. None of these changes do. I am not"
X Link 2025-07-06T08:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@RinoTheBouncer Last of Us Part II never needed to come into being. It was already questionable to pick TLOU up as a full fledged series rather than a standalone self contained title that didn't beg to be further explored or continued on. Part II annihilates the series from the inside out where"
X Link 2025-07-06T08:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@RinoTheBouncer the series is no longer salvageable. There is nowhere to GO with TLOU after Part II. Spiderman II destroyed promise of the SMPEU (Spiderman Marvel Playstation expanded universe). These are the only games Insomniac has put out since [----]. They're unlikely to even pick up another"
X Link 2025-07-06T08:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@RinoTheBouncer Rachet and Clank in the immediate future. Horizon is a cow Sony has bled dry. And these are the games Sony is investing all the money and resources into making. Sony would rather push out a (unfortunately and horrifyingly too likely) PS6 remake of TLOU than spend that money more"
X Link 2025-07-06T08:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@lippyent Yes. This was perfectly true in our parent's age and the ones that came before them. Children were expected to be seen but not heard in the house for the longest time. Turning them loose throughout the neighborhood was an extension of that practice. They were expected to be"
X Link 2025-07-07T05:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@lippyent "gotten lost" and amuse themselves during the day until it was time to be expected back at home. You could go anywhere and do about anything you wanted as long as you didn't get into trouble. It's often referred to as "latchkey" parenting. It was hands off and kids were expected"
X Link 2025-07-07T05:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@MidnightKolrath Sparda to operate his weapon. He sought Dante for that purpose but realized Nero would be just as much suitable. It means Sanctus figured it out if Nero wasn't Vergil's he was at least a Sparda descendant in some way. Dante told Nero"
X Link 2025-07-07T18:40Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@MidnightKolrath he wanted the Yamato back to keep it safe in the family. He told Nero to keep it twice. When Nero offers it back the last time he's confused why Dante refuses to take it. I thought you wanted it in the family. Dante: It is. It wasn't ever subtle. If this was"
X Link 2025-07-07T18:41Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"It should be noted Arem Productions the recording studio that has been attached to the Persona series ever since the original [--] is tied to Activision Blizzard as one of their largest key clients. The Arems have worked close with Activision Blizzard within the last [--] years Whats going on at Sega recently 🫢Persona [--] Reload is recast 😦Yakuzas Kazuma Kiryu is now voiced by Yong Yea And 😱Persona [--] will likely be recast And it has everything to do with FF7Rs recast. Video below 👇 #FinalFantasy #Yakuza0 #P4Revival https://t.co/1kBDW3gdv3 Whats going on at Sega recently 🫢Persona [--] Reload is"
X Link 2025-07-08T14:19Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"alone. This is an "on paper" idea but it is within the realm of probability a former Activision Blizzard marketer and particularly one that has worked underneath John Heinecke among the most powerful (former Activision Blizzard) marketer out there https://www.pcbproductions.com/aboutpcb https://www.pcbproductions.com/aboutpcb"
X Link 2025-07-08T14:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"for decades. Keith and Valerie casted Yuri Lowenthal for Persona [--] and again for Persona [--]. Up until recently they have stood firm on consistently bringing back the original Persona casts nearly without fail. The Persona [--] cast was repeatedly brought back for each and every new"
X Link 2025-07-08T14:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Persona release up until Reload. Voice/casting directors typically aren't the ones to remove an actor and certainly not a longtime established one connected deeply with the series THEY chose. The industry is so knitted together voice/casting directors will work closely with"
X Link 2025-07-08T14:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
". .You can't understand their interest in steamrolling out the longest established English Kiryu to appoint a high profile influencer in his place. That's not in character for a casting/voice director. Directors don't cast like this. It very much is the color of a corporate"
X Link 2025-07-08T14:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Corporates will even on paper deliberately exert their power over studios to comply with this. If a studio is found to "not be agreeable" and "difficult" to a corporate ordered mandate people talk in this industry. Former Activision Blizzard personnel would be a doing a fair"
X Link 2025-07-08T14:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"share of talking. They can "casually suggest" that they can talk to their connections even from still inside Activision Blizzard that studio is refusing to be a "team player." They wouldn't say they will pull contract from a studio that will fight for actors. But they would share"
X Link 2025-07-08T14:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@PLeigh_Presents I've come to agree with this the older I get. Not ever character is going to be pressed like an MMA fighter. The older classic Disney Princesses are a big case of you don't have to be physically strong in order to be a strong powerful commanding individual. It's what"
X Link 2025-07-10T00:25Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@PLeigh_Presents modern feminism society and entertainment gets so terribly wrong. You're not necessarily frail if you lack physical strength. Willie from Temple and Doom and the original Ashley Graham from Resident Evil [--] are rancid vile creatures not even"
X Link 2025-07-10T00:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@4thSnake 🧵There's a great deal of behind the scenes corporate politics at play with this that it would take a night and another full moon to fully dive into the breath of it. It boils down to one basic truth: corporates. Corporates have decided to leverage casting for their express"
X Link 2025-07-10T04:16Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@4thSnake purposes and uses. A large of part of the motivation is the increasing Hollywood influence and control over the video game industry. They have decided to arrange the game to be played the way Hollywood does it. Only it's even more underhanded and dirty because any actor that is"
X Link 2025-07-10T04:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@4thSnake removals used to be something unbelievably rare and unusual to behold. It just barely happened at all. Companies didn't DO THIS. Something like Persona [--] and THEN Persona [--]. .back to back full cast removals. .was something unheard of less than a decade ago and barely over half a"
X Link 2025-07-10T04:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@4thSnake decade. Resident Evil [--] Remake is a slightly different scenario than the others. Capcom never tended to think that highly of their established actors to begin with. They changed every and any Resident Evil actor out almost on a literal dime so casually and frequently the fanbase"
X Link 2025-07-10T04:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@4thSnake is probably desensitized to the behavior by now. They scrubbed out Alyson Court who was the last not only longtime but original actor out of Resident Evil [--] Remake. .because she was on strike fighting for better pay and better quality of life safety measures for motion capture"
X Link 2025-07-10T04:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@4thSnake actors. (If an motion capture actor would be to severely or fatally injured as the result of the job they would be fairly compensated for it.) Capcom responded by pursuing an actress that was willing to take the lesser pay and less guaranteed benefits rather than attempting to"
X Link 2025-07-10T04:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@4thSnake even TRY to work with Court to see her back. Capcom just never has treated or regarded its actors very well and I don't see that stopping any time soon. They replaced Ada's actress from RE2R for RE4R. That one is more in tune with the current story: they salivated at the prize of"
X Link 2025-07-10T04:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@4thSnake start yet with AI) to increasingly suffocate and squeeze voice actors out of survival. We're not going to see our favorite voice actors make it if the industry keeps going the way it is. It's going to get to the point that we're not going to see any actors outside the rank and"
X Link 2025-07-10T04:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@4thSnake file "big name" movie or tv celebrities almost anywhere. If any voice actors survive it will be the ones already steeped inside the corporate system ala Funimation-Crunchyroll (which is owned by Sony). This is a precarious descent we are watching just as fans. We haven't been"
X Link 2025-07-10T04:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@cloudiemcdoom I do. It's John Heinecke once again up to his usual antics. For those that don't follow the video game marketing scene as closely as do Heinecke is Square's chief publishing officer formerly chief marketing officer. The industry knows him best as Activision Blizzard's most"
X Link 2025-07-10T07:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@cloudiemcdoom powerful figure responsible for their marketing campaigns. Few people were ever as powerful inside Activision Blizzard as Heinecke. Almost everything that has to do with Act-Blizz' modern marketing campaigns outside of Kotick rests on his shoulders. He is arguably one of the most"
X Link 2025-07-10T07:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@cloudiemcdoom influential people few have ever heard of by name that has sculpted video game marketing the way we know it and see it today. He was the one responsible for slapping Act-Blizz logos on every Doritos bag Mountain Dew bottle variations of that within sight in grocery stores. He"
X Link 2025-07-10T07:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@cloudiemcdoom was the one that wouldn't leave me alone with seeing Act-Blizz commercials in food form around a decade ago. His style of marketing is extremely BIG. Act-Blizz doesn't know the meaning of small scale and not when it comes to the nearly billion dollar expense they lavish on"
X Link 2025-07-10T07:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@cloudiemcdoom marketing. Everything is designed to be in your face and inescapable. The brand is on everything and anything. It is a relentless assault on you to never be able to look away from a brand. If it can fit anywhere it will find a way to be there. Heinecke is https://www.statista.com/statistics/1243359/activision-blizzard-ad-expense/#::text=In%202022%2C%20gaming%20company%20Activisioncompany's%20highest%20ad%20spend%20yet"
X Link 2025-07-10T07:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@cloudiemcdoom responsible for that "little" FF7 cross promotion with Magic. John Hight is the newly minted President of Wizards of the Coast since [----]. He previously served as executive producer and vice president and then general manager of World of/Warcraft. Talk about calling on old"
X Link 2025-07-10T07:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@cloudiemcdoom churning factory assembly like that. I don't get excited and swept up in shivering blissful delight seeing Sephiroth's black wings emblazed on a shoe. What I see is my love for a character being milked ash bone dry to the highest bidder. Heinecke never tends to stray too far from"
X Link 2025-07-10T07:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@cloudiemcdoom old Act-Blizz contacts so I can naturally assume someone that was formerly in there can be called on for favors inside Nike. I find this kind of political level theater campaigning gross. And I'm just talking more about Heinecke's everyday "field work""
X Link 2025-07-10T07:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@smith_john38727 @Bryan51287 @PokeDailyPost I was fortunate to be able to track down the original Japanese version around a decade ago. 4Kids never did simply one or two minor alterations. These versions are entirely different movies. It's not even just the story that's overhauled the characters are nowhere near like what"
X Link 2025-07-13T04:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@smith_john38727 @Bryan51287 @PokeDailyPost they're supposed to be. Mewtwo in the Japanese version is more of an antihero than an outright villain. He is still callous and indifferent to humans but he never plans a genocide of the entire human and Pokemon race. He creates the clones to more or less create a family for"
X Link 2025-07-13T04:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@smith_john38727 @Bryan51287 @PokeDailyPost himself. He doesn't want to be alone in his existence any longer. (And that further explains why he attempted the cloning process again for Charmander Bulbasaur and Squirtle the first friends in his life he lost before birth). Mew's adorable preciousness is mostly a ruse. He"
X Link 2025-07-13T04:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@smith_john38727 @Bryan51287 @PokeDailyPost flits around Mewtwo not taking him seriously. Mewtwo is aware of this and is beyond pissed off. When Mew sends the "shadow ball" (before there officially was such a move) hurling back to Mewtwo the gloves are basically off now. Mew completely drops the act and turns serious. He"
X Link 2025-07-13T04:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@smith_john38727 @Bryan51287 @PokeDailyPost gets dangerous. He makes it known to Mewtwo he finds the clones' existence abhorrent to the natural order of things. Even Mewtwo's "parent"/genetic twin the one thing he holds close to that rejects him. Mew and the other natural Pokemon lock in with an intent to kill their"
X Link 2025-07-13T04:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@smith_john38727 @Bryan51287 @PokeDailyPost counterparts and vice versa. If you take 4Kids' alterations at face value it goes against Mew as who they present him to be. He has no reason to fight Mewtwo. He should be the one rallying to stop it not the one who helps incite the possible death of these Pokemon"
X Link 2025-07-13T04:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@RiseFallNickBck That is something so profound a lot of so called "adult" movies don't know how to touch. Both Hogarth and The Giant are suffering an existential crisis with watching a deer die from the hands of hunters. The Giant was programmed to kill. That was all he ever was created to do. He"
X Link 2025-07-13T07:19Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@RiseFallNickBck wasn't supposed to question or feel bad about it. No other "giant" ever gained that kind of sentience before. But this deer died not even as a casualty from the battlefield. It only died due to hunters' boredom and a need to make the kill a sport. That's definitely what pushed"
X Link 2025-07-13T07:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@RiseFallNickBck The Giant and Hogarth over the edge about it. The deer died without purpose. It is the nature of life that life will eventually pass. Hogarth as a child raised in the throes of the Cold War especially understands this as the truth. He is raised with so much uncertainty and fear"
X Link 2025-07-13T07:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@RiseFallNickBck how long he will be alive for. He lives on such fragile precariousness with life. He is explaining what he knows to be true in a way only he can that death shouldn't be feared. You can't live that way fearing what is an inevitable part of existence. It's only wrong to take a life"
X Link 2025-07-13T07:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@RiseFallNickBck as if it doesn't matter. Hogarth is inadvertently sharing this with a machine programmed to do nothing but destroy. He is giving The Giant a purpose a meaning he never had. He gets The Giant to understand a soul in a way not even a lot of human beings would be able to impart"
X Link 2025-07-13T07:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@RiseFallNickBck It is pretty terrible how despite how falsely induced that bliss was this was the first time in a long time Marlin was allowed to be happy. He didn't know how to be after Coral died. His life was ruled with so much terror and fear he didn't know how to show his son happiness"
X Link 2025-07-13T07:48Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@leonsminx Ashley in Resident Evil [--] Remake is such a substantial and remarkable human improvement from her obnoxious monster of a predecessor. They were able to humanize her and make her likable without having to change much of who she already is. She is still an everyday girl who has no"
X Link 2025-07-13T09:02Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Maxiie83 What I love about the relationships in Resident Evil and DMC is for most of them you can lean towards this is a powerful close friendship or they hold romantic feelings for each other and either perspective is perfectly valid. Jill and Chris and Claire and Leon are close in a"
X Link 2025-07-13T19:35Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@crystarius @joshuaseth Voice actors don't get residuals for video games either. Glynnis Talken Campbell said she was paid only $500 for her entire work on the first Starcraft and then $1500 for Starcraft II (check her Facebook). .when she was ultimately pushed out to make room for Trisha Helfer. "
X Link 2025-07-15T14:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"can't be anything else but a callous corporate's fleeting whim. An executive a marketer like Ryan Lacina holds no business nor purpose in injecting themselves into the casting process. It's an obscene disgusting overreach of power and control. They strongarm people into"
X Link 2025-07-15T20:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"compliance and unwavering blind obedience. To be blunt they don't care who is left hurt destroyed over this. Their decisions are never made for the betterment of creativity. It's a callous calculation treating human beings as statistics. It's self serving"
X Link 2025-07-15T20:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@MidnightKolrath It's further indication Dante is holding considerably back against Nero. He had several opportunities during this fight to cause serious fatal damage to Nero but chose not to. Nero is throwing everything at his disposal at Dante and to Dante he is being extremely cautious about"
X Link 2025-07-16T05:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@tiratiramimi Both versions of the Pokemon [----] movie present him as very clearly male. If it's true Lugia was supposed to be more of a maternal figure (which was not seen until later in Johto) it's just one of those other things the executives and people attached behind the series either"
X Link 2025-08-04T03:33Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@Yugiman101 That's a long complex story. Americanized whitewashing aside but still part of it Jouinchi has a more direct more coarse more "rude" way of talking. 4Kids decided to translate this over as a Brooklyn accent. Wayne Grayson is very authentically from Brooklyn"
X Link 2025-08-04T20:36Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"consulting the fans. These executives are exploiting good faith naievity the Japanese side can remain hands off where the Japanese side pays them on the head and sends them on their own expecting these executives are naturally reigning themselves in. It's much the way an"
X Link 2025-08-13T21:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"irresponsible parent would leave their kids in an unlocked play pen assuming they don't need a babysitter/an adult figure present and they won't get up into too much trouble while they're away. On the same coin of the coin they're arguing these executives will always make the"
X Link 2025-08-13T21:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@mrnash1227 @BlazeBinges I think Batman more caught Superman by complete surprise. It's visibly clear Superman wasn't expecting Batman to throw him around the room. Superman came into the situation expecting Batman to be an altruistic compassionate hero much like him. He didn't peg Batman as someone to"
X Link 2025-08-16T22:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@mrnash1227 @BlazeBinges play dirty to a fellow colleague in a cape. Superman at least understood Batman is keenly sharply aware and smart. He is known as the World's Greatest Detective after all. He would know Superman is an alien granted the powers of a god. Superman's strength often is enough to"
X Link 2025-08-16T22:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@ChikoritaCheez That still doesn't help glaring inconsistencies like when Ash met Articuno in Pokemon [----] but in a later Johto episode loses all knowledge an Articuno even exists. Ash first meets a Suicune (if not the exact same one since there's only supposed to be one of each Legendary"
X Link 2025-08-19T02:08Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@ChikoritaCheez dog. .beast. .) at the beginning of Johto. He remeets Suicune later when Team Rocket shatters the bell keeping the peace between Pokemon and humans. .He loses all knowledge of that in Pokemon 4Ever. Mewtwo's time with Giovanni is directly linked between the"
X Link 2025-08-19T02:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@ChikoritaCheez first season and Pokemon The First Movie. It was always perfectly clear the movies all took place at some point in their respective arcs. It's more irritating how the writers refused to keep the internal consistency where this ever had to be a doubtful question"
X Link 2025-08-19T02:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@TheRealPit0 @SapphicallyAly The idea behind Mega Evolution is that it's supposed to be a push beyond a Pokemon's physical extremes and limitations. They can't evolve any further but you could say they use that dormant power to briefly change form. It will enhance the body based on a feature that already"
X Link 2025-08-21T21:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@TheRealPit0 @SapphicallyAly exists. Blaziken turns much more into a lean fighter raring to go. Victreebel is already renowned for its powerful acid. With nowhere for the excess energy to go from the brief transportation it strengthens and enhances the poisonous acid. Its body likely turns into 90% acid"
X Link 2025-08-21T21:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@TheRealPit0 @SapphicallyAly based on its appearance. The acid wouldn't hurt it since Victreebel is basically a Venus fly trap. It just has a harder time controlling the acid from getting everywhere as a Mega"
X Link 2025-08-21T21:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"I don't know how obscure this is anymore but it is too incredibly fun to not share. Mark Ruffalo was nearly cast as the first English Cloud Strife in Kingdom Hearts. Mark Ruffalo's agent wanted him in the game so bad he invited Ned Lotte the casting and https://m.youtube.com/watchv=f5sTJq4Iysg Whats your most obscure Kingdom Hearts fact https://t.co/EXycD97A2B https://m.youtube.com/watchv=f5sTJq4Iysg Whats your most obscure Kingdom Hearts fact https://t.co/EXycD97A2B"
X Link 2025-08-28T16:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Voice director for the first KH to a screening of Robert Redford's The Last Castle and which starred Steve Burton as a young blue eyed more innocent soldier serving the wrong side. Lotte watched the movie where it dawned on him he knew he found the right Cloud. And it wasn't"
X Link 2025-08-28T16:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"☺ It's even better to appreciate when you have @georgenewbern as THE Sephiroth. (Yes the emphasis is required and utmost necessary.) His Sephiroth can both make me feel both like hissing with my hair raised like a cat and chirping dancing on my bean toes like a happy cat. That Daily Sephiroth Appreciation Post #613 https://t.co/psxKyxmgAk Daily Sephiroth Appreciation Post #613 https://t.co/psxKyxmgAk"
X Link 2025-08-29T21:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@RelevantGoon Resident Evil is running into a typical zombie apocalypse series problem: moving the world forward in a meaningful positive direction. The zombie apocalypse part and the ruin and devastation of the world that came before is way too easy to delve into"
X Link 2025-09-04T22:04Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@RelevantGoon domination much like he is. Leon is now [--] years old. Chris is even older. RE5 already all but wiped Chris out as a character and he hasn't really had much significance past RE6. Does Leon wish to continue on in the military until he physically can't anymore Claire is the most"
X Link 2025-09-04T22:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@RelevantGoon consistent in that she'll help anyone in need however she is able to zombies or no zombies. But what purpose or story are the majority of the characters seeking This was a problem as far back as 5/6 Capcom has been unwilling to solve: how to move this series forward in"
X Link 2025-09-04T22:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@RelevantGoon a significant meaningful direction. [--] and Villages were soft reboots intended to revitalize a quickly failing series. But creatively no one involved really has solved that issue with what the point is with continuing the series. If Wesker simply can no longer die and he will"
X Link 2025-09-04T22:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@RelevantGoon continue on terrorizing the world. .what is the point No zombies can go on forever despite how Robert Kirkman certainly tried with The Walking Dead. There needs to be a point to continue a series and Capcom is quickly running out of slack for that very thing"
X Link 2025-09-04T22:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@ProfNoctis It is true Nier and Nier Automata are both interlinked as part of Drakengard's wider multiverse. However the Nier titles are standalone enough you don't have to have tried the Drakengard games to enjoy them. Nier and Automata are different enough you don't have to necessarily go"
X Link 2025-09-05T03:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@ProfNoctis into Automata knowing anything about its predecessor. It will be just a little more extra rewarding if you do with all the references they include from "Gestalt"/Replicant in Automata"
X Link 2025-09-05T03:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@BasedEmetSelch @TheReunionVII @Grummz John Heinecke is a figure that Kern may never have personally met but may or may not have heard about in passing through association. Kern left Blizzard in [----]. Heinecke is an Activision transplant that moved over to the company in [----] right before the merger but the same year"
X Link 2025-09-17T16:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"This all runs actively AGAINST the job and role he's assigned for. He's ignoring all perspectives that either don't concern him doesn't align with his ideologies or he simply will not respond to. His job as the top dog pecking order marketer is to invite feedback This is the unprofessionalism I speak of at SE. People get fired for less at our regular jobs yet we have Heinecke an executive being dismissive about market concerns. Isnt that his job to report market research to Japan Hes filtering it because he deems it pathetic. https://t.co/Prb6Gw2ZbU This is the unprofessionalism I speak of at"
X Link 2025-09-17T23:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"and constrictive criticism for the company to take to heart and use to improve themselves. He is not doing. .the very job he was trained and promoted to do. A lot of fans grumbled over the years how Activision-Blizzard was no longer in tune with the wants"
X Link 2025-09-17T23:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"and needs of its own fans. Activision-Blizzard only cared about the size of their shareholders' pocketbooks. Presents John Heinecke for the spotlight parade You're looking straight at one of the most key figures in allowing that to happen. Heinecke first brought himself"
X Link 2025-09-17T23:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"during his time at Blizzard involved global brand managing. He was the one coming to Kotick or prior to the merger Paul W. Sams (Blizzard's COO) presenting how sales charts and figures. This guy was the one of the people turning a blind eye"
X Link 2025-09-17T23:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"to fans and encouraging that behavior among the combined company. It's always important to remember Heinecke wasn't raised by a Blizzard upbringing but Activision's. That makes the world of difference. Everything we see from him now everything he is as an executive is who"
X Link 2025-09-17T23:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Campbell could only surmise her removal was "couched" as a top down Activision-Blizzard decision. She never knew who drove the decision or the people behind it. She couldn't have known Blizzard minted a brand new global brand manager in [----]. how to install a celebrity in a high profile game and make the matter of the and the original actress disappear. how to install a celebrity in a high profile game and make the matter of the and the original actress disappear"
X Link 2025-09-17T23:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"2007 was before the merger was finalized but still being discussed heavily behind the scenes. It was still the right time you can point to John Heinecke being inside Blizzard. He held more direct contact with Metzen than Kotick ever would. Heinecke would be"
X Link 2025-09-17T23:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"within Metzen's close circle of influence and personal "advisers." How Easy would it be for a marketer like Heinecke to pick up on Metzen's favorite shows Helfer was an actress on VivendiUniversal (through Universal Studios) roster since Universal"
X Link 2025-09-17T23:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"produced Battlestar Galactica. A celebrity actress from VivendiUniversal that is brought in right in the midst of a finalized merger WITH VivendiUniversal. .that's awfully convenient timing. How easy is it for Heinecke to have whispered in Metzen's ear they have the contacts to"
X Link 2025-09-17T23:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"get Helfer in the game as long as Metzen complied with the arrangement People may argue if this was yet another shameless corporate power move why didn't Activision-Blizzard replace far more established actors We can thank Kotick for that one"
X Link 2025-09-17T23:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Kotick was uninterested and uninvested in Hollywood dreams for the longest time. He preferred to stay on his own turf where he knew the power was secure. Movies/TV were Universal's game. The grift potentially was to butter Blizzard up to warm them get Helfer in the game as long as Metzen complied with the arrangement People may argue if this was yet another shameless corporate power move why didn't Activision-Blizzard replace far more established actors We can thank Kotick for that one. get Helfer in the game as long as Metzen complied with the arrangement People may argue if this was yet"
X Link 2025-09-17T23:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"to the idea to a buyout as Kotick first proposed and when VivendiUniversal insisted on the merger it became about appeasing VivendiUniversal and Blizzard. An actress left the industry and another actor was fired for years for what would be corporate maneuvering"
X Link 2025-09-17T23:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"If Heinecke didn't command participation with Campbell and Clotworthy. .he still had to have known about it all the same. He was in charge of the Blizzcon Helfer was rolled out on the red carpet to the public for. As the marketer he directly communicated with the press"
X Link 2025-09-17T23:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"about the game. He would tell everyone involved with the game and the press how to address the casting removal. .or not to. .Heinecke now welds more power and influence over an entire company than he even did at Activision-Blizzard"
X Link 2025-09-17T23:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@DashAttackVT @MarkMann777 @TheReunionVII This is a former top executive at Activision-Blizzard we're talking about here. A great deal of that company's dirty laundry was aired out as par for the sexual harassment lawsuit. The paint on that picture shows an environment that ran akin to"
X Link 2025-09-18T00:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@TheReunionVII @ZrxStench @voicearchivist A lot of people still don't tend to understand Advent Children was made in a far different than the era we're in now. The English direction was seeking to achieve accuracy with the script. .while still adhering to constraints of tight controlled lip syncing AND take"
X Link 2025-09-18T21:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
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