https://selectbutton.net/t/entrapment-tactics/8797Felix wrote:Fire Emblem Three Houses is a game about being an academic who was given a prestigious position as a legacy hire because the dean is trying to fuck your dad, and trying to understand how to do your job that no one has trained you for while being sexually harassed by all your students
it’s hilarious if you imagine it as a sort of reverse Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court wherein you’ve been transported into an Updike novel and you’re trying desperately to respect women
Felix wrote:there is also a hilarious mechanic where you can try to make the other students like you enough to transfer into your class, which is how you get them in your party, with the eventual goal of leaving the senior faculty (who also hit on you relentlessly) with no students at all
I am extremely good at this game
Felix wrote:another nice realistic touch is that all of your students are extremely wealthy and seem to have no concept of how money works whereas you were basically living in the woods as of a month ago and are now expected to purchase school supplies for everyone out of the meagre salary you receive
Felix wrote:I like to imagine the fishing minigame as the one place my poor protagonist can go to gather his thoughts for a while
meanwhile he’s deliberately calling on students whose names he can’t remember in class because the known is generally more upsetting than the unknown
Felix wrote:there’s one older professor who mostly seems to want to do eugenics research on you and it’s comparatively relieving to spend time with him because it’s one of the few places where if something goes badly wrong it doesn’t seem like it’ll plausibly be your fault
part of the Pnin Cinematic Universe
Felix wrote:it’s like if someone combined Harry Potter with 8 1/2
every interaction is a terrifying puzzle from which you’re trying to escape without someone fixing their big eyes on you and a heart meter steadily growing