pacing myself in a circle about xenoblade x spoilers.

listening to the luxin video on al and pacing

hes trying to say that the customer service scene is al joking, or just humor, but man

sorry i . ill take the line about "how far blade has fallen" (fetching cheese for people and all) as al being a lil sarcastic. sure, he doesnt really mean that

but im sorry, but it does in fact seem like he is full stop yelling at this cashier????

am i the one who is wrong????

i actually do like his character overall, its not like i hate him like some people do for??? taking away the spotlight? or having a dumb gimmick joke??? none of that matters to me, its fine. i do actually like him most of the time, but he DEFINITELY was a jerk to cashier

i think in fact it probably does more service to his character if we would simply roll with the idea? bc the point of his character is that hes not the hero but a normal guy and hes a normal dipshit guy who yells at his cashier for not having his favored toppings

why do we have to somehow frame this as him being just funny silly, just having a lil sarcastic joke at the pizza shop

am i crazy??????????

looking desperately forward to someone else playing this game to sanity check me on this one

just as is that sounds not much like a joke to me. or if it is a joke. that's a joke that's taken a little too far. you know.

yeah! yeah!!!

i dont think you can read this as a joke, and certainly not one in good taste

i mean, okay, sure, some of these lines are probably jokes. sure. fine. but the cashier definitely starts cowering in one bit? hes definitely yelling at bits??

like idk. but "get your ass moving and fix this" at minimum is enough to get my hackles up

maybe im taking the rest worse bc of this line. maybe the rest of the scene actually is just funny jokes. but idk man i think the bit with him swearing at the cashier to hurry up is. bad???

his affinity message for this is literally "making demands" man.........

i am going to stop thinking about xbcx for the night.........ouagh

sorry belated. i walked away from plurk last night. but if the cashier is cowering and this man's dialogue/tirade includes "gets your ass moving and fix this" it is no longer a joke, and if you think it's funny, you've never been a service worker,

or, like, don't have empathy

right???????? right?????????????

drives me insane that someone tried to argue that

and i am also not convinced, frankly, after that showing, that him commenting on how far blade has fallen doing chores is actually a joke

bc if you are proven to not think much of cashiers, im not actually sure that you respect labor period

chews on him. i will write the "respect labor" fic eventually, but probably after xbc3 fic