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You're the second person I've seen say that, did I miss something with her? I didn't think she had enough of an actual character/personality to do anything important
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Probably because they wouldn't voice her if they weren't planning on having her do something, but she hasn't gotten any development to be a character who'll matter beyond a heel-turn. They'll either pull an Ilberd or a Moenbryda, but she's not enough of a fighter to sacrifice herself for Gulool Ja so I think people assume the former.
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Well Intentioned
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Admittedly there isn't a whole lot to it for me. She speaks in the same flat, monotone way as Calyx, and it seems like she's withholding information/details that should be accessible (ie, details on Preservation.)
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Given the general writing quality of DT, it's 50/50 the writers forgot she existed and didn't remember to update her dialogue.
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Well you see, Shale is British, and more specifically sounds like she's from the north of England, so she has to maintain a reserved tone of voice or she'll be stoned in the streets for her immodesty by the local city council.
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I would generally agree with the idea that no one with a British accent should be trusted, on principle.
Crossposting this because it's hilarious (and is a way to get a 4x cheaper sub fee if you play via Steam)
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It's so fucking obvious that it's Metem that it physically hurts me with how obvious it is.
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I hope not because I want m12 to be a one-on-one with the President and I can't imagine Metem being threatening unless he's piloting a giant robot or something.
Shit, the cockwatchers know I'm watching them.
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Wouldn't be a surprise to assume someone on this thread also regularly shitposts in the 4chan general.
I'm guessing it'll be a fight against the president after he's mainlined every single feral soul in their stock for a big ol' Grand Finale.
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He'll just use a feral soul, lol. Or find someone to fight for him.
Abort, abort.
Take the cyanide pill.
Why is r/shitpostxiv like this
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They make fun of degenerates on that sub while being degenerates themselves. In fact this is a very common trend I see in this community where those who are the most vocal about hating degeneracy are also the ones who indulge in the most disgusting fetishes. Especially if they’re part of the anti woke crowd like MissCallistis/Meme Lizard and his buddy Dumb_Ishgardian (/xivg/ avatarfags who make beastiality and loli porn of their femra characters.)
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I legit looked up the IMBD when I first heard it to see if it was the same person doing both voices.
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I hate that you have given me this knowledge and I cannot scour it out.
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Krile and Sphene sound more similar this time because Krile forgot how to do the voice, doesn't care, or the studio lost the presets they used to get her voice that way. I could see her just not giving a shit, since the rest of the team has clearly started phoning things in and I think Sphene's VA is still having fun with it.
I'm basically of the opinion that the old cast shares the same disdain for the direction the entire playerbase has, and doesn't see a point to try if they're anyways second-billing to the most obvious nepotism-baby in the world, Wuk.
That was the actor "trying." I still have no idea what accent they were emulating, but Sena was convinced that it was great. It warbled up and down because that's Sena's impression of how the mediterranean languages sound. The best pattern that I found was that he would locate a word that might have a trill in it, he would begin speaking differently. Every single time he says "Tuliyollal," you can hear how he pronounces it differently than does the rest of the cast. I believe this is because pronunciation guides weren't standardized across the two studios, and he wanted to sound cultured. But anyways, there's always more energy in any line where he says shit with a trill, because it's an opportunity to "sound authentic."
The post-game performances have been much, much flatter. I think Sena realizes this wasn't the big break that his buddies arranged for him to have - how else could you explain a no-name getting the third-most-spoken lines of dialogue in a decade-old franchise, after all? Shit like the "let's go" that I recorded earlier is like... yeah, homie doesn't give a shit anymore. They didn't retake it probably because he threw a fit - and for the number of lines he had to retake in the MSQ, he probably threw a fit too. I was meaning to check if they fixed "MURDERER!" or "PEEPHOLE!" or "BAKOOLJAJA!!!" (in the bird-people zone, when wuk is leaping at BJJ with the axe and yet is whispering??), but I can't really do that anymore.
It's incredibly unnatural and stupid, as no person alive would go "endless-sphene, impostor sphene, and real-sphene" and just remember it. This is why I think it wasn't a rewrite - I think Hiroi got confused when he was doing early drafts and he just threw it in to keep himself from getting mixed up. Instead of exploring characters having a bit of funny dialogue tripping over which Sphene is the real Sphene (maybe making a false-gemstone joke or two?) it's completely dry. Yet another instance of "prime cut of writing opportunity overcooked to the point of dry flavorlessness."
A concept I'll term Hiroi's Razor: I can't tell if it's intention or incompetence. Shale has had and continues to have direct access to the things that could cause all of the bad no-nos and is conveniently off-camera when they're triggered. In the cutscene where the fake-sphene's crown is left on the seat, Shale doesn't even regard it. The camera angle is cut in such a way that we pointedly see that she doesn't even look at it, which a competent individual would use to imply something is up - especially since a few moments later, she just knows that it's a regulator.
Hence, Hiroi's razor: did he just want us to notice the crown and thought we would miss it, and used Shale walking by as just an opportunity to zoom in on it? Does Shale know it's a regulator because she's just so darn smart she doesn't even need to look at it? Why would fake-Sphene have a regulator, if Endless-Sphene didn't need one? Why would Calyx stop using fake-sphene as an asset, when it's patently obvious how stupid it is to to do?
Hiroi's razor: maybe it's intentional, maybe he's just a fucking idiot who believes shounen is the highest form of art. Doesn't help that he obviously is a fucking idiot: Why does the rest of the world not exist, and as such is totally uninformed about the recently-averted world-ending threat that was in this city... and won't know about the new world-ending one? Why wouldn't you use this as a plot thread for the grand companies and the alliance to occupy alexandria, because it's twice now in a couple months threatened to end all of existence?
Do look forward to real-sphene being possessed by endless-sphene through the regulator that she insisted on carrying (for no reason except hiroi's razor) and thanks to wuk lamat going REMEMBER HOW YOU LOVE YOUR PEEPHOLE she sacrifices herself or something and Alexandrians go "I'm not afraid of death anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!"