i’d been planning on finally checking the place out, but after catching up with someone i hadn’t seen in a long time, and who had been deeply involved in the space since its inception, it sounds like there are some real unpaid labor issues going on there that have mostly just allowed the owners to put a downpayment on a home in Brooklyn
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this was really funny to me lol. like 10 or so years ago, i have the distinct memory of asking to bring a high-school-aged group to Barcade and we were told, flat out, that kids weren’t allowed in the space due to alcohol being present (even if we came before they opened or something), so i’d always kind of assumed it was a safe place to go with friends, in that regard.
I asked the owner of wonderville to make analog arcade sticks for me to show off the moon fields at pax east. They broke before the weekend was over. It sucked
This spot blew my mind. Extreme density with a new view every couple paces, from every direction. Beatrice Farrand, level design OG.
This video manages to showcase fewer interesting vistas with its rigid camera and realtor FoV but it’s cool to see it in FPS mode. I never thought of it this way but I really would love to mount a desperate match-winning ascent up Forsythia Dale in say… late March?
wait. late to the party, just watched trailer, am i crazy or does the editing of the ganondorf reveal sort-of-imply link becomes ganondorf? 2:56, links arm gets ganon gooped, then cut to same (as in right) arm and its ganon’s
i’m sure i’m reading too much into this and story gonna be borey but it really does appear cut to imply that
maybe theyre just focus testing the idea on the True Lore Fans
either way looks dope, came in prepared to be Too Cool For Zelda but maybe i’m losing my edge(iness)
Ocarina of Time is kind of where i stopped caring about Zelda lore because, much like the Star Wars prequels, what i had imagined in my mind prior to OoT was a lot cooler to me
will always be exactly my shit that the OOT link is a guy who saved two different worlds, was forgotten by both of them because he saved them So Good that the bad guy essentially never existed, then ended up as a pile of bones to teach a much later Link some cool sword tricks and that was it
like, that kicks ass. hero’s journey shit but turned on its head - not only can he not go home, he was never even a hero, everyone forgot him. he’s just some kid who cosplays as an elf and can play a mean ocarina solo. he’s so god damned sad because the only other person (faerie) who knew what happened has disappeared, that in his sadness he falls into a god damned hole and into another dimension, a dimension absolutely fixated on the eventuality of death and ruin.
and even in the alternate timeline where adult link saved the world, it eventually got fucking flooded by the gods because he left to save his original timeline ! ganon came back!! you weren’t there to save them!!!
the hero of time kicks ass. what a huge waste of time his life was.
majora’s mask is my favorite zelda game and it really cements hero of time link as a sin-eater, just absorbing the grief and sorrow and wishes and hopes and dreams of the doomed people around him, increasingly burdened until he is eventually shunned by a world that can’t possibly know him despite him saving them
I got really into the tragic Ganon stuff from Zelda lore that was demonstrated by precisely 1 minute of in-game cutscene in Wind Waker. I think Skyward Sword killed my interest in extended lore after that.
I always thought it interesting that undead zombie OOT link is also canonically in TP.
yeah i mean i agree the stuff that has been kind of retrofitted onto OoT is neat, but i meant that, at the moment i played OoT, my expectations for seeing the birth of Ganon and all that were pretty high based off the lore in the LttP manual/strategy guide. i think in general i just miss the tone of those games, more than anything, and OoT is a turning point
i think you forgot the most important important addition for Ganon into the OoT lore. and that’s so 2010’s bloggers turned professional games writers could get excited about him.
My one and only unshakeable fanon commitment is that the games depict not Hyrule, but the stories people in Hyrule tell. To the extent they tell us anything about the “actual” Hyrule, it’s in the same way that the Bible or Eddas or Lord of the Rings tell us about our world.
