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Assuming my text editor's metrics are accurate, this game is 878 921 words in length. Exactly eight hundred of those words comprise the rules in their entirety; the other 878 121 words are the stat blocks.

guess who made a wargame with thirteen thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine unit statblocks

#gaming #tabletop gaming #tabletop wargames #immortal pop!bat 2: funK.O. #violence mention #swearing

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Humanoid robot with "FAKE GAMER GIRL" stencilled on its chestplate and no other obviously gendered features.

#concepts #media #tropes #robots #gender #memes

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New gender binary: either you exist or you don't exist.

#gender #gender binary #wordplay #puns

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Following the same artist on multiple platforms can be pretty entertaining because you'll see some cute ship fanart on Tumblr and read through the notes full of gushing praise for how adorable it is knowing that in the Cohost version of this set the next image involves somebody getting railed by a dick the size of their forearm.

#tumblr #fandom #fanart #shipping #sex mention #penis mention #this is not specifically about dungeon meshi

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I don't play gacha games, but I'm in online spaces which are adjacent to gacha fandoms, so every so often I'll pop open my notifications and see a thread where the comments are like "ooh, step on me, daddy", and the post to which those comments pertain is a drawing of a waifish anime boy being manhandled by a second waifish anime boy.

#gaming #video games #gacha #fandom #fanart

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Person who really wants to be dominated by a strong-armed authoritarian in a snappy uniform, but also they want to keep their kinks ideologically pure, so they split the difference and fantasise about getting their ass beat by the inspector-general of the US Postal Service.

#concepts #kinks #politics #violence mention #swearing #reblogging the peer-reviewed tags #wordplay #puns

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All demurely gripping the haft of their ribbon-bedecked healer's staff and flashing you a warm, encouraging smile as they placidly ask you to choose where the branding iron goes next.

Adventuring party where the pink-haired healer chick is the deranged one, but they still have the classic "the director keeps telling the voice actor they don't sound stoned enough" vocal characterisation of the type, so they're just out there explaining in detail all the awful things they're going to do to you in that spacey, lilting monotone.

#concepts #media #tropes #voice acting #drugs mention #(ish)

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Person who really wants to be dominated by a strong-armed authoritarian in a snappy uniform, but also they want to keep their kinks ideologically pure, so they split the difference and fantasise about getting their ass beat by the inspector-general of the US Postal Service.

#concepts #kinks #politics #violence mention #swearing #something something shipping discourse

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Adventuring party where the pink-haired healer chick is the deranged one, but they still have the classic "the director keeps telling the voice actor they don't sound stoned enough" vocal characterisation of the type, so they're just out there explaining in detail all the awful things they're going to do to you in that spacey, lilting monotone.

#concepts #media #tropes #voice acting #drugs mention #(ish)

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I don't play gacha games, but I'm in online spaces which are adjacent to gacha fandoms, so every so often I'll pop open my notifications and see a thread where the comments are like "ooh, step on me, daddy", and the post to which those comments pertain is a drawing of a waifish anime boy being manhandled by a second waifish anime boy.

#gaming #video games #gacha #fandom #fanart #someone please complete the joke by drawing a gacha girl version of this man

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Bringing up my Tumblr dash and seeing somebody doing the "mommy? sorry – mommy? sorry – mommy?" meme in response to a picture of a dewy-eyed teenage girl who is, for no clear reason, wearing the parade uniform of the French 4th Hussar Regiment circa 1875.

I don't play gacha games, but I'm in online spaces which are adjacent to gacha fandoms, so every so often I'll pop open my notifications and see a thread where the comments are like "ooh, step on me, daddy", and the post to which those comments pertain is a drawing of a waifish anime boy being manhandled by a second waifish anime boy.

#gaming #video games #gacha #fandom #fanart

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I don't play gacha games, but I'm in online spaces which are adjacent to gacha fandoms, so every so often I'll pop open my notifications and see a thread where the comments are like "ooh, step on me, daddy", and the post to which those comments pertain is a drawing of a waifish anime boy being manhandled by a second waifish anime boy.

#gaming #video games #gacha #fandom #fanart

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Nerd culture is constructing elaborate taxonomies of Types of Guy, then immediately dunking yourself straight into the wastebin taxon.

#nerd culture #taxonomy #types of guy

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It's a little thing, but I appreciate that Final Fantasy VII Remake/Rebirth actually acknowledges how badly Cloud is unwittingly gaslighting Tifa this time around. The whole "this guy clearly has intimate knowledge of the Incident, including stuff only someone who personally witnessed it could possibly know, but I was there too and I genuinely don't remember him being present" business has gotta fuck with a person's sense of perspective, and the original game barely touches on it at all.

#gaming #video games #final fantasy vii remake #final fantasy vii #final fantasy #cloud strife #tifa lockheart #death mention #swearing #final fantasy vii remake spoilers #final fantasy vii spoilers #final fantasy spoilers #spoilers

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It's a little thing, but I appreciate that Final Fantasy VII Remake/Rebirth actually acknowledges how badly Cloud is unwittingly gaslighting Tifa this time around. The whole "this guy clearly has intimate knowledge of the Incident, including stuff only someone who personally witnessed it could possibly know, but I was there too and I genuinely don't remember him being present" business has gotta fuck with a person's sense of perspective, and the original game barely touches on it at all.

#gaming #video games #final fantasy vii remake #final fantasy vii #final fantasy #cloud strife #tifa lockheart #swearing #final fantasy vii remake spoilers #final fantasy vii spoilers #final fantasy spoilers #spoilers

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I want to play a soulslike where the horny undercurrent of the bosses' elaborate instant kill attacks gets less and less plausibly deniable as the game goes on. Like, in the opening hours there might be a boss who turns you to stone with lurid panning closeups of your character's expression of frozen horror or whatever, and then by the 50% mark you're running into fights with shit like a thirty-second cutscene where the boss inflates you big and round. It's critical that it never actually tips over into outright porn, so that I can play dumb and act like the people who've picked up on the horny vibe are reading too much into it.

#gaming #video games #soulslikes #game design #tropes #violence mention #death mention #pornography mention #swearing

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I'm far from convinced that he isn't just fucking with the interviewer when he says stuff like that, but I have to admit that the idea that soulslikes as a genre are Like That specifically because Hidetaka Miyazaki genuinely doesn't know he has a fetish is in fact very funny.

is a game even a soulslike if there isn't at least one creature that vores you?

(With reference to this post here.)

The critical insight to understanding the soulslike genre is that for a specific segment of the core audience, what that giant lobster in Elden Ring does to you is 100% a horny thing, and the developer knows this.

#gaming #video games #soulslikes #game design #swearing