I keep thinking that AK!Rai would have connections to Rhine Lab, but only in the form of him having once having made off with a good number of their documents (I imagine Raez helping him in this) and so now he cannot go back to Columbia

Me when one of my OCs is a wanted man in AK's equivalent of Russia and the other in AK's equivalent of the States:

Rai when he sees Saria in RI after she spent a good chunk of time looking for him back in the heyday:(*runs*)

Funniest part is that it's been like 5 years and both of them look the same as they did before

-Galaxian- 

Turns out without lag, I'm able to fight against Endfield boss enemies pretty well. 
Me when being able to see leads to improvement in ability to react /j

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Every time I dream about El Cid I get the urge to draw Asa in immaculate drip
Unfortunately my ability to draw, and drip especially, is limited.

-Galaxian-

F/GO 11th Anni Movie

As usual, it's a piece of art.

I'd like to keep most of my thoughts to myself so I can strew in them, but I must say that it makes sense to me why they chose Emiya, Arjuna, and Karna to be the main characters of this one. It wasn't obvious at first, but rewatches made it more apparent.
The Super Karna vs. God Arjuna fight is probably better appreciated by people who are intricately familiar with their story, but as an outsider I can say that I think the usage of the chakra is intentional, and that I appreciate how with just the music, it feels like their fight is personal. It's not about the wrongful choices that God Arjuna made in this Lostbelt, or the questionable allegiances that Karna swore to keep in PHH--it is simply Karna vs. Arjuna, the two finally having a fair fight and duking it out to resolve their regrets. I'm not totally sure but I feel like the flashes of them in life (much more toned down compared to their Fate designs) is supposed to emphasize that too. That they reconciled as brothers in the end, no matter what happened between them. .

Seeing Caster Cu/Grimr and Aesc together is also killing me. Imagine being a mage with (the ability to simulate) Clairvoyance, who sees a dear friend depart and walk a path of destruction forced upon her. I am pretty sure that Aesc is literally walking upon Cernunnos' fur as the flame motif (and obvious cup symbol) from "Coronation" goes on. Then you see the golden butterflies of hope fade, her walking in blood, and the star of hope fall--and then Grimr's left eye bleeding. Words cannot emphasize the emotional devastation of the entire sequence.   

Anyway I'm definitely normal about this (I've looked a few times for the Prince of Lanling, but I think Ying Zheng is the representative of LB 3, so neither he nor Yu Mei-ren are there
Some characters I'm not able to recognize, but hopefully contextual inference is ok. 

List of characters with VAs for the Anniversary Movie so I can hopefully look at it in the future (AKA when this gets an English sub, I can't distinguish between overlapping voices lol):

Cast:
Marisbury Animusphere ("Have you enjoyed your journey?")
Patxi
Gerda
"Boy"
Asha (LB4)
Makarios ("I wish I could have seen my sister all grown-up.")
Fairy Girl
Tepeu
Kirschtaria Wodime
Ivan the Terrible
Antonio Salieri
Scáthach-Skaði
Mash Kyrielight
Consort Yu
Grimr / Super Orion
Aesc
Tezcatlipoca
Karna
Jinako Carigiri
Scandinavia Peperoncino
Qin Shi Huang
Anastasia
Qin Liangyu
Arjuna / Arjuna [Alter]
Miyamoto Musashi
Camazotz
Surtr
Beryl Gut
Oberon
Senji Muramasa
Artoria Caster
Ophelia Phamrsolone
Artemis
Daybit Sem Void
Kukulkan
Kadoc Zemlupus
U-Olga Marie

Alleikhreos:
Me, chronically sleep deprived at this point: Yo.

Alt--
Alleikhreos: I am a warrior and gardener or a bygone age. My name is...Alleikhreos.
Me: Ok Boomer.
Alleikhreos: (*Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo intensifies*)

-Galaxian-

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I need to name the Coma Berenices Saint tomorrow and I can hear whomever named Orsolya, Charletta, etc. cracking their knuckles...please stop.

Successfully avoided the silly hecker
I probably can't say the same for some retired folks but it is what it is.

I named them too, now they're all excited about it and running around even though they're like 80 years old.

-Galaxian-

"Was Alexander the Great gay" but you read "Great Gay" as a compound noun because people don't capitalize their Google Searches.

-Galaxian-

Talking about Requiem for a Dream btw

One day, I might sit down with the book (a physical copy that is) and have a go at it. Currently just a few pages in and just the syntax of the dialogue (no quotation marks, no paragraph lines) is killing me. Call me dramatic because I am, but it's been way too hot here (and everywhere) and I haven't been sleeping well, and my brain is not up to it.
Character-wise, I want to punt Harry off a skyrise, not because he's the worst sort of person but because of the way he treats his mom. Ik he doesn't do stuff like murdering people, he mostly just digs himself into a deeper and deeper hole and everyone who associates with him gets sucked into an enabling wormhole where they enable each other and get worse and worse, but gods, he would be so much worse in real life if he weren't constrained to the part of his life that the novel focuses on.
Same thing goes for his mom (Sara). I think that the intended perception of her is the popular one, where she's a lonely old woman/widow who's relatively blameless. And obviously I do sympathize with her. The loneliness of not being "needed" by anyone else is very real for anyone but especially for people as they age (and especially for people who probably lived as housewives for their whole lives and don't know any other life), after all.
But I can't stand people who enable their children like that. Harry didn't become like that after adulthood. His childhood had to be filled with Sara simply acting off of thinking he could do no wrong, and he's gotta be in his twenties or something and still pawning off his mom's TV set repeatedly, blaming her for guilt-tripping him and making her go without lunch for a few days so he gets cash and she has to use her lunch money to get it back. 
The fact of the matter is that parents like these are often pitiful now, and with somewhat understandable circumstances that led them to the present, but whose failures as parents lead to not only them being hurt mentally/emotionally by their own children (if not physically), but also other people who get manipulated and hurt by those same children. I've seen family members who have been doing the same for the last 10+ years, and who one day have a very real chance of becoming like Sara, and who--most of all--have been totally ignoring advice from others along the way, rationalizing their own horrific decisions to themselves in the name of love or other ideals, and it disgusts me so much that by the time the inevitable consequences of their actions, I can barely feel pity toward them, only toward those who their bastard children will inevitably go out and hurt for no reason (and whose actions will, of course, inevitably still be forgiven by their original enablers).  

Also obviously these are just personal/psychological things, not thematic analyses based off the story's main criticisms of the American Dream...I probably sound hella irritable.
You can't totally blame me, though. I'm already seeing the fruits of some family and family friends who treat their children like they can do no wrong. It's only going to get worse.

-Galaxian-

All these years and I still ship Rin and Shirou the most out of the three main couples
I see the appeal of the other two (and the parallels) but it just is my favorite.

-Galaxian-

Pros of UBW:
-Archer gets his character dev
-Gilgamesh is dead
-Kirei is dead too (lol)
-Rin is Waver's student and they dismantle the entire setup
-Saber fades away without too many regrets
-Sakura apparently becomes the head of the Matou household and girlbosses everyone around

Cons of UBW:
-Shinji is still alive

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Day 2000 of being scared of Berserker

-Galaxian-