Does it bother you?
on July 17, 2018 at 12:01 amI had some internal debate with regards to making Jason’s background so sci-fi-y. There was the argument that it’s important that he be normal while everyone else is fantastical. He’s the Han Solo, if you will. He’s the one weirdo who doesn’t have a famous dad and/or magic powers. This particular line of thought had come into prominence during these Years Of Star Wars Prequels, the idea that the reason they don’t land with some people is that there’s no regular dude and it’s just all these superpowered jackasses and senators and royalty.
On the other hand, Jason could use some fleshing out. Other than Mike, he was the only guy from the original main cast that we didn’t know about. And It’s Walky! is, y’know, generally fantastical.
And so hopefully the happy medium of “oh he’s FROM fancypants but HE’S not fancypants, making him even more of a boring weirdo even among his own kind” was, well, a workable compromise.
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Jason’s the reject fancypants
tattytrousers
mangybritches
dingydrawers
simpleslacks
Slacks sounds kind of fancy, though… jankyjeans?
That turtleneck looks like it’s trying to turn into an Elizabethan ruffle.
So we’re supposed to identify with the dude who wears a bow-tie all the time?
Yeah, the normo like us
I was never great at DDR, but even then I don’t think I ever got a negative score.
Can you even get a negative score at DDR? I know some games that you can get a negative score by teamkiling, but never heard that about DDR
Look at how he’s playing it. It appears to be trying to stomp turtles.
Look at how he’s playing it. He appears to be trying to stomp turtles.
There’s a meter that empties, and once it’s empty, it’s game over (unless free play* is enabled). It can’t really go “negative”–ThatsTheJoke.jpg
*I forget the exact name, but the mode that prevents premature game over even if you’re Jason
Because the early 2000s Internet ruined my brain, all I can think of whenever someone mentions DDR is this Flash animation classic from the Newgrounds portal.
Jason’s British. In of itself that makes him a weirdo within SEMME.
Jason Chesterfield, ladies and gentlemen: The man with so little rhythm that he can’t even tap is feet in tune!
Well, he is very much a white man.
Everyone go watch this awesomely terrible B-movie about the underground world of competititive (and deadly) DDR:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1296373/