#aren't games supposed to be fun?

[pikipekarmy]

ok i didn't start this to be a salt blog but are you fucking kidding me

the Mystic Hero special fucking research right

I whipped through it as best I could, because I have so damn many tasks I'm stuck on (catch five gulpin, which aren't spawning in your hemisphere this season! win 100 PVP battles when it turns out you don't understand the combat and are in a fifteen-game losing streak that's sapped your will to live!) and you can't delete them to get a different one, which is wildly frustrating.

so i evolved literally everyone i could evolve, for these, and walked my ass off and got all the candies (i legit walked 50 km last week, I don't have any cheating methods, though I admit I let my niece run around with my phone for about half a kilometer one evening), and I was on pahe 3 of the 4 and spent almost three days doing nothing but trying to make an Excellent throw and failing. I'd done the first two during Community Day without even noticing, I was just making so many throws, but that third one, I was stuck.

So I looked it up, worried I wouldn't get it done-- but this is Special Research. It's not timed. So it's okay, it's related to the event but not bound by the ends of it. I have however long I need to make that third Excellent Throw. It's fine, and I was resigned to it.

And then last night at 8pm I was doing a rocket battle and suddenly I got an unrelated trio of "streak broken!" messages. What???

Oh yeah. No, it had re-set the page. I now have to evolve *another* ten pokemon, and walk enough to earn five *more* candies with my buddy, and now instead of one impossible excellent throw, I've got to make three.

...

Aren't games supposed to be fun? I almost fucking uninstalled it right then. But I went to bed instead, because I can only be so mad. As it is I'll never get to do another raid, which were so fun and I miss them more than I'd thought I would. But now two of my three panels of the Today page are dominated by impossible tasks, and now this self-resetting bullshit-- who knows! Any of these could just reset themselves at any time! The bright side is I'd already claimed two of the rewards so I guess I can get them again, but fuck, I don't have ten more pokemon to evolve after an event that made me evolve sixteen of them already. Who the heck does???!?!

It's a universal glitch, it happened to everyone who had an incomplete task. I filed a ticket and the automated chatbot asked what it was in regards to and the Mystic Hero research line was the top one of the options, but once I picked that I got no further responses, so I guess I can go fuck myself.

I don't even want the stupid lapras with the stupid hair bow on its ear, I just want to be able to finish something. I have a missing bit of my brain that gives me dopamine and checking off tasks helps and I handle setbacks in that very poorly, so this has been incredibly irritating.

So I'm probably not going to play today, I'm too mad.

#blanche #a fucking hairbow lapras #pokemon go #aren't games supposed to be fun? #this just feels shitty

[goldensunset]

ayyyyy it's the art year in review post with my best work from each month

#behold! what i have suffered immense psychological damage for #i made some really nice looking things this year i think #i do not honestly know if i'll be able to keep this up next year but i will try #some months i kinda skimped and only had one thing to show #and other months i popped off like three or four times #lol #peach rambles #sigh ok so i'll have to do this i suppose: #totk spoilers #tears of the kingdom spoilers #got a pretty healthy variety of fandoms here #shame i like never draw twewy art. i think those designs tend to not gel with my style #not that i think they look bad but they aren't fun to draw i mean #i did draw a pretty cute neku in feb #but that month had to be the sora of course #i liked my cynthia art for sept but like come on look at cashmere is she not gorgeous #i have other pokémon rep. well two from the same game hee hee #starting and ending the year with sv feels great #no pla somehow #my art

[dent-de-leon]

His sister bought him the clock!! For his birthday!! ; ; They tried to play a little game of it, "In a sham of a seance..."

Leo Amicus: "Has it all been a dream? Am I waking up for the first time? Am I still with my family? Am I not crumbling yet? It just isn't fair...Not just, not me--any of it. To anybody. It's just not fair. I can hear the sounds so much--it's so much louder now. I can hear it over everything. I can see it again. The machine. I remember her face. I remember too much. When did I start crumbling? When do you start growing and stop crumbling? I--I don't trust myself. And...it could be worse. I'll put that on my tombstone at that point."

Thinking about...how the through-line of all these little threads is every character agonizing over family. Malcolm wondering, "Was my family involved?" Edgar grappling with how much it hurts that he saved someone in Candela, "someone who wasn't my family," instead of finally chasing down the one lead on his sister he's had in years. Grimoria fearing what will happen the day she feels a spirit and it's her own family's. Leo wishing he could turn back time and forget that clock and just have his sister back--

The way Taliesin describes Leo's trauma as, "I can hear the sounds so much--it's so much louder now. I can hear it over everything." The way it so heartbreakingly parallels his description of love as, "And it makes the sound of whatever happened to you before quiet. At least for a moment--"

#candela obscura spoilers #leo amicus #the way taliesin describes leo's trauma makes my whole heart ache ; ; #SO DOES EDGAR SAYING THEY AREN'T HIS FAMILY #reminds me of how he hesitated when referring to them as colleagues before #feels like he's afraid to label anyone else as family because of what happened to his-- #also the seance as something that was just supposed to be a fun little childrens game and leo just lost his whole childhood to that--

[antirepurp]

i don't think sonic translates particularly well into open world environments so it probably would be for the best if future games didn't go the same route as frontiers HOWEVER. they should return to the formula of huge hub worlds to give us a space to run around and goof off in like in frontiers. i want them to take sa1 06 and unleashed and expand on what they did. maybe make seamless transitions from hub world into stage environments who knows!!

#soda offers you a can #idk open worlds are about exploration and sonic games aren't really exploration games bc you're supposed to go fast yeacool #and frontiers i think has trouble rewarding the player for exploration in meaningful ways? #you're given so many resources so easily in the base game that you kinda don't need to explore that much unless you go for completion #the dlc handles it a bit better by making skill points easier to get through exploration and doing the platforming challenges #and making some map expansions only accessible that way #and like even when you find cool environmental storytelling it's not always acknowledged in the moment #which makes it easy to miss cool lore implications at least for me #but fucking around in big spaces is fun! and i think that would translate well into hub worlds #bc those don't need to be huge platforming and speed experiences. like they can have those but they're optional you know? #idk im spitballing and im not a gamedev or anything i don't know things but something like this could be rly cool going forward?

[randomnameless]

Which are the biggest examples of cowardice from the writers of VW and GW, never meaningfully adressing House Goneril's usage of child slaves or never having Claude point out in any of his “Fódlan and Almyra have bad relations because the two of them don't want to understand each other” speeches that Almyra invading Fódlan for fun once a week is a much more likely reason for the two countries not getting along than simple ignorance and close-mindedness?

I'd say the first anon,

Because the second comes from the first!

Meaningfully adressing the Goneril Slavery issue means, to make it meaningful, that Claude shoud react to it.

Also, because adressing the Goneril issues means, obviously, adressing the "whys" they think or have their biased POV against Almyrans, which brings us to the weekly raids.

If the Goneril issue was adressed, we could have Hilda/Holst/their mom/their second degree cousin say that they are at least treating the Almyran children as human beings (lel) which is already giving them more care than what Almyrans do when they raid and pillage and "rampage" in Fodlan cities - maybe with some sort of Matthias-like example, Almyrans killing a pregnant woman, or, idk to keep in the "grandma from the 1800s tells me what the Orient is like" bias, captured women or what not.

Which, could, in turn, lead Claude to acknowledge that both parties treated each other like shit, but to stop the cycle, one has to stop, and, idk, House Goneril accepting to make the first step at Hilda's behest because even if Claude is half-Almyran, he wants to help and save everyone, even Fodlan people.

But this is only an AU!

Tl;Dr : not adressing the child slavery issue means you cannot adress the weekly raids - but the biggest argument against VW and GW is how the cast never reacts - especialy not the Gonerils - to Claude's speeches and/or ideas

It's almost as if only Dimitri and Rhea can receive backlash (earned or not!) for their words and actions but the other two can tell their followers the sky is green, and they will never give them any flak.

#anon #replies #Claude being ignorant and learning through the game and Billy's guidance might have been a good premise #if only Claude and Billy existed in the world #I think Hilda in VW tries to tell them that Fodlan and Almyra aren't on the best of terms #but Claude iirc cuts her with let bygones be bygones #even if her paralogue might have happened yesterday #when i'm telling you Faerghus is written more seriously than the other two #let it be in Nopes #we have personal stakes raised by the constant Sreng raids #Matthias lost people close to him #but apparently we're supposed to think the almyran raids are just for funsies and no one gives a fuck about the dead gonerils who tried to #protect their territory and the country? #like no 'hilda's aunt died to protect the border and those clows are still raiding for fun when people are dying' #'don't they value life or what?' #Fodlan AU

[keeps-ache]

DARN, missed it again! 2nd anniversary of being a they/themer :D

#just me hi #i should cue a post for next year cuz i just Keep missing it hfhsv #cool though!! two years of queer yeah babyyy #i now have it/its but they/them was where i started hehe :> #i've considered neos but you know i think they'd be a bit much for me lol #character customization Truly #//i am NOT missing this blog's birthday. proooollyyyy hghfsh #these aren't such huge things but i like to know things have happened hfsh :3 #these are two things i really only celebrate on here so i've just Gotta say it :33 #//anyway i've been listening to the radio a lot (did i say that? i think i told you that some weeks ago lmao) and it's Funnn (mostlyyy) :D #yes they play the same 15 songs over and over and i'm starting to learn all the words to even the most unremarkable ones but that's part of #the Fun :DD #been listening to it because once in a while they play a song i already have in my playlist (yayy !!) or a song that i like (which then goe #in the Playlist (yayy !!)) that and it supplies a background track to whatever i'm talking about with my siblings which is funny at times #/imagine. you've slipped up. a secret of another's you were never supposed to know was mentioned by accident. so instead of #trying to excuse yourself from guilt you admit to knowing even More. the person you're speaking to is betrayed confused and overall upset. #and you're trying to get in contact with a ghost to give you pointers. it's not great. in the background Lovin On Me is playing #that's how our games have been going hfhsvhf #/i let them play in the plots of my stories sometimes and it's So Ridiculous Dude #i've had to ban specific organs from their characters because they were being wretched little beings. it Was funny though i'll not deny hfh #they've tormented shye + weirded out oath + killed and been killed many times #there were a couple times i saw genuine horror on their faces and i am living on that i'm ngl hfhsvbhs #like the horse thing! it would take a sec to explain so i won't go into it but oh i hurt myself laughing Lolll (it was dark but it was stil #funny hfbvs) #//OH i've gtg now lol -- #ciao ciao see you somewhere later from now !! :D

[kakusu-shipping]

Poppy Playtime Self Insert just got a LOT more fucked up.

#Finished chapter 3 super quickly and the tone shift got me think thonkin #You know how I decided my Security Breach S/I should Die in SB to match the horror tones of Ruin? #Yeah. Something like that just happened #Making my literal Toddler aged S/Is suffer the worst storylines #dkfjdkjfskdfs ANYWAY #Previously I was running with the concept the Toys and the Prototype were the eventual Good Guys #Because I liked that story #And I still kind of believe they're not really in the wrong #But it's becoming more obvious they're probably not daycare kids like originally assumed... Or aren't like. Still kids #Like they aged between becoming Toys and now I suppose based on their voices #ANYWAY #Sense the game was so light on the horror aspect for the first two chapters I was just kind of ignoring it #Making a Little Baby Guy S/I who befriends all the big monsters for fun fun #Yeah that. That's changed. #Their death is story important now it seems #I'm still running with little aged S/I who befriends the monsters buuut... #They're still not making it out of their chapters #Huggy dies catching my S/I down the hole Mommy steals Poppy down #Mommy dies in the train crash to playcare #And now I'm working on rewriting CatNap because he is like.. the MOST hostile character #This is too many tags I'm gonna get cut off fdkgjdfk ANYWAY #I like horror I like horror self inserts I like fitting the mood #AND JUST SO YOU KNOW THIS IS ALL REGRESSED ME'S FAULT HE'S A LITTLE FREAK AND LOVES ANGST #I DIDN'T DO THIS I AM NOT TORTURING THE TODDLER BY MAKING ALL HIS SELF INSERTS DRAMATIC #HE DOES THIS TO HIMSELF #THIS IS HIS PLOT #I just work on the details. #And make the post.

[alchemicaldesignquery]

Playing the Hero vs Playing the Role

Something I've noticed in the stretch of conversations that pop up around 6v6 / 5v5 (Overwatch 1 vs. Overwatch 2) is the specific way folks (don't) talk about Tank.

Those players who enjoy(ed) it can get dismissed by large portions of the playerbase, because at some point it was decided that

No one wants to play the role

and you'd be forgiven for believing that? Because Queue times are almost always brought up. They were touted (developer's said as much) as the reason for why the game shifted to a 5v5 format for the sequel. Which...also kinda explains why the design and balance decisions feel a lot like throwing wet paper at a wall to see what sticks. Experimentation and all.

I'd argue though, that Tank, unlike the other Roles in the game, has not had very good decisions made at the design level. I would even go as far as to say, that, after the original cast, there has not been a well designed Tank released into either the original Overwatch 1 or Overwatch 2.

Which isn't to say the heroes released who happen to be Tanks are all bad? But there's a firm demarcation between-

A well designed Hero; engaging, fun, interactive and encouraging of any player willing to give them a try.

and

A well designed Tank: a Role/Job within the game with a certain responsibilities that caters to specific players with particular wants.

There's evidence of this demarcation found in other Roles. The Support Role, for instance, has seen a drastic uptick in "DPS"centric heroes throughout the last few years of Overwatch.

Illari, Kiriko, and, Baptiste all saw very swiftly delivered, widely useful, and borderline, automated mechanics introduced with their kits that performed their Support duties for them, while their Damage outputs and options became the core elements of engagement and interaction.

The devs have gone on to suggest this was done to entice more DPS players into the Role and Supports, for the last year, did enjoy a very promising and popular (read: broken) status.

The question of whether this is a good philosophy, let alone a fair one, is another discussion.

The argument I'd make is that these might be well designed Heroes? But the veracity of them being well designed Supports, is pretty loose and unstable.

Switching over to the Tank Role, the demarcation becomes even more stark; Tanks with heavy DPS influence (Mauga, Junkerqueen, Rammattra, Roadhog) tend to deliver a minimal Tank experience in favour of an oversimplified

Lots of Health + Sustain with unique Damage applications.

which, again, brings up the value of the design and how it heavily leans toward the Hero aspect while leaving the Role, largely unconsidered, if not outright minimized.

And this goes back further than the newer releases/re-works, into Overwatch 1. Of all the Tanks that have been released, after the original cast, how many can actually be considered well designed?

Sigma's kit remains a bloated 'omni-answer' with no weaknesses and little variability.

Orisa's kit went from a delay-bot with little agency, to a "Press 1-button every 5s" playstyle between the two games.

Doomfist's Tank expression oscillates between delivering every known type of CC available in such short intervals that few options exist for responding

to

Interrupting his interesting movement for a poorly disguised "window of opportunity" that sees him standstill and let the enemy waste time/resources on a ridiculous damage reduction %, that neither side can garner any satisfaction from.

Zarya's bubbles are now unlocked and, most often, executed purely on a selfish level, especially when combined with the singular Tank format that demands maximum survival when playing the front line. A minimal change of her design that has drastically increased the pendulum of her gameplay, swinging from extreme to extreme depending on the numbers.

Only Wrecking Ball, seems to provide a semblance of unique Tank Design that demands particular skillsets and learning, but even then, how much of that is the Uniqueness of the Hero and how much is that he is an effective Tank?

The argument that Tank is an unpopular role has been carried around from original to sequel for quite some time and is a very well-recognized refrain within the community.

Where it comes into deep question, is just how the design has gone from Winstons, Dvas, Reinhardts, and (old) Zaryas to a dumbed down philosophy on what makes a Tank and what sort of interest there is to be found with designs that are only really just...more health, more damage, and less thought?

And many of the older designs have become not just outdated, but difficult to execute against newer models who carry all their power in their stats and high-value, minimal execution mechanics.

Who wants to play a Role that hasn't had any creativity since the Devs thought about putting a Hamster in a Ball, into the game?

#Overwatch 2 #game design #Tank #Tank design #6v6 #5v5 #How are we supposed to have fun this way? #and if Tank players aren't having fun why would anyone else even try?

[gengar-pixel-2]

YOU

YOU THINK?? DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW MESSED UP AND SCARRED MOST OF POPTROPICAS VILLAINS ARE??

DO YOU

UNDERSTAND??

HAVE YOU NOT TALKED TO. ANY OF THEM.

I HAVE SEEN THINGS.

IT’S GONNA TAKE MORE THAN “TOTEMS” TO “REMOVE” THE EVIL.

..Also thats not me this image was taken from the wiki.

#poptropica #like seriously jeff kinney god damn #your villains are surprisingly dark #YOU ARE THE ZOO WEE MAMA GUY #YOU AREN'T SUPPOSED TO DO THAT #*COUGH COUGH* COUNT BRAM #*COUGH COUGH* OCTAVIAN #*HEUGHE* RINGMASTER RAVEN #so many.. #IT'S ALL fun and game til the lore hits #all goofy ahh jokes until the lore hits #if you reblog this do state your opinion on poptropicas most fucked up little guy like a gameshow/hj #flashback to a few days ago when i was infodumping and giving my mom a small condensed list of only some of the villains #and when she deadass responded by saying: that sounds.. depressing.. #sorry for tag rambling.

[redrockbutch]

DnD players will brag openly about making life as hard as possible for the DM and then wonder why they can't get a playgroup and never ever connect the dots

#Cassidy.txt #if you are antagonistic to the DM right out of the gate the one who is picking sides and making it us vs them is YOU #you shouldn't be antagonistic anyways you literally asked them to do it for you #being a first time DM was genuinely one of the worst social experiences of my life #basically everyone there was brand new but instead of the nice coaching everyone else got they just openly mocked what I did #I did voices for them; they made fun of the voices #I talk a bit about the weather; they smirk and demand to know what the continent's seasons are like #and if they use months like we do #and if the seasons are the same #literally enjoying the chance to force me to do creative work for them #making fun of my characters. whining about any possible consequence even when they walked right into them. #whining when I tried to discuss behavior. #I gave up on making original content bc it was just being made fun of constantly #and when I switched to making fun pop culture references one of my players complained that that 'shouldn't be allowed' #literally complaining whenever I tried to have fun during the fucking game we were supposed to be having fun with together #miserable shitty experience with a bunch of jerks #and they are all SHOCKED that I no longer like DnD #cause to them DMs aren't playing the game with them

[wherehog]

Playing sonic unleashed the way god intended (emulated on a macbook)

#/j obviously #if you're wondering how it runs: it's so weirdly inconsistent #i do have a copy of the game for the ps3 but it runs so badly #it's constantly eating my button inputs which is bad when half the game is a beat em up combo masher #(well and also it's my dad's ps3 and i'm usually not in town to borrow it. so i was interested in trying to emulate it) #meanwhile on my computer #the highs are better than the ps3 but the lows are way worse lmao #i'd go as far as to say like 70% of the game runs smoother than it does on the actual console #but there are some parts it just doesn't know how to handle. too many guys on screen and the fps tanks #tbf to the rpcs3 guys they've done a crazy amount of improvement on this emulator! #there is this one part in rooftop run night that i used to get TWO fps in. it now hovers around 15-20fps #which obviously is still pushing the definition of 'playable.' but i am doing this for fun and blasphemy so its fine #sorry lmao getting games to run on apple silicon hardware that aren't supposed to is a special interest of mine #sega won't remaster this game themselves because they hate money i guess 🙄 #spooky talks.txt #2am musings of a madman

[twilightarcade]

Opinions and THOUGHTS

like in general or...

Ummm! I don't like crunchy foods that are like. Soft. You know like onions and stuff?? Hate those om a texture basis. Also mushrooms.. don't have too much a problem with the taste but it isn't quite worth the texture. That's not really an opinion more of a preference but I don't really have any ground breaking opinions I think so let's pretend ok

OH um!! Opinion I think 125% zoom shouldn't be the default zoom because that's literally huge which like I know it's different bur I'm special pleadingface the world has to revolve around me. Alsoalso I hate hate hate that TouchPad thing where sometimes if you touch it it'll stay touched except it's so weird!!! Unpredictable n such..

^^^ guy who just got new laptop voice anyway hi future us here this was written like 5 years ago ummmmmmm let's see here

ok you knwo right noow we're laying in bed actually so not many thoughts. Tomorrow is friyay I suppose...... This weeekend though !! Going to be out like all weekend to help some stupid middle schoolers (I LOVE tjem so much) (theyre so tiny.) (some of them are taller than me but we don't talk about that) except like i've been putting off coding this thhimh (TECHNICALLY NOT MY FAULT !! IM NOT UNDER CONTRACT AND HAVENT BEEN ABLE 2 MAKE THE MEETINGS) so im going to need to finish it in like. A day. And sorta pray ....

#askstag #SOSOSO behind on things don't look ........ #anyways also this weekend my mom wanted me to figure out how to make these like granola bar whatever #that are like. 4 dollars each (ABSOLUTELY INSANE !) at this cafe and they're really good allegedly #so i'm gonna figure out how to make them 4 her 👍 #BUT like i never make. Granola bars. So it's gonna be fun. #Ermmm these aren't really thoughts more an account of my life I suppose #It was snowing like? Yesterday. Absolutely huge snowflakes made me so happy #I was TOO tired today apparently and i talked a lot (BAD !!) absolutely horrendous. Not an articulate individual when tired. #it's ok though nothing can damage my upstanding reputation 👊👊 everyone loves me (<- lying) #been really sleepy lately but also havennr really been eating latelyso going 2 try n fix that #ALSO NEED A MUG ! Like i have one except SOMEONE likes to use it all the time (there's several others) #but like. That's the only one that feels nice yk #the design is nice on the eyes AND the shape is really nice. What more do you need in a mug #now i juust need to start drinking coffee or somethibg. Then my hashtag mug liffe will be complete #been sorta mulling over the people in my family as of late and it's really funny. Would share if that wasn't #like. People in my family. Safety or whatever. #it's like if you got a bunch of guys who hated each other and locked them in a room together yk #they would slay in a death game

[spite-and-waffles]

"But it's not like that in canon at all!" ok but have you considered I. Don't. Care

#it's necessary to have people who can check things against canon and to call out flanderized and one-dimensional fanon portrayals #but sometimes fanon interpretations are more fun for people and their quality entirely subjective #also it's COMICS. It's all fanfiction! Just licensed to a company who pay some mediocre white men to write it #people who haven't picked up a back issue about the character they're writing even if they're literally paid to do it #Sometimes this accidentally ends up making the story and character multi-faceted. Other times it's just a constant butchering #We all have the same right to do whatever we want with our characters #there's no 'right way' to portray anyone. There's just good storytelling and bad storytelling #canon matters when you're doing META #That's where fanon is annoying as all fuck because you need to show your work #And even then bad faith readings exist. Which is different from simply interpreting things differently #meta discourse is supposed to be fun too #Not a game of one-upping each other and behaving like this is a PhD program #where you don't get to have an opinion if you haven't read everything ever #that one popular fandom blog got in my teeth so much because she was not just checking fanon against canon #but imposing her interpretation on everyone like it was fact too #I really think too much canon just makes you lose perspective about yourself #We aren't all here for the same things and that's quite alright #Also those with white queer brainrot seem to think that stanning the correct blorbo is activism #anyway if your main aim in reading comics is to dunk on other people's headcanons I suggest you get a life #It's high-key hilarious if antis reblog this. Absolutely no sense of irony in that lot #DCU #DC comics #Batfamily #Bat meta #DC meta #canon #fanon #fandom discourse #spite waffle

[gamebunny-advance]

Some Pre-Poll Gabbing

The poll technically isn't over yet, but I don't see the results changing significantly, and there aren't enough votes for me to say that this is a conclusive answer from the fanbase. Nonetheless, I think the results are about what I expected.

The yes to no split is (at the time of writing) fairly even, at about 58:42. Still, I did figure that the vote would be more negative than positive, so that's a small surprise.

What isn't surprising though is that the majority of people that voted still said that they didn't consider these sections fun at about 67:33. Granted, since the "different reasons" vote is vague, I can't necessarily confirm that voters that voted for "Yes, but for a different reason." didn't also think that the sections were fun, but at the very least "fun" was not the primary reason that they replayed those levels. But in that case, I have to wonder, "why?"

If these people don't consider these parts of the game fun, then why are they replaying them?

I made my opinions about the approaches pretty clear in the original post, but beyond my subjective opinion, I don't know what value they add to the game at all after going through them once.

You aren't ranked for them, so you don't get fans for beating them again, and you can't get a better score for them. There are no achievements tied to replaying them. You can get pretty much every mini Qwasa you need by just playing the game normally.

I just don't get it.

#nsr #if you voted 'yes but for a different reason' #please send an anonymous ask explaining yourself #i need to pick your brain #because the fact that this option was (currently) tied for most votes #while i'm baffled by the result #must mean there's something important that i'm not understanding about this #i want to say that games are for fun so what's the point of playing a game (or part of a game in this case) that isn't fun #though that does disparage experimental games where fun is sometimes secondary #and i do find those kinds of games valid #i believe video games are art so that means they can provide a variety of experiences and not all of them have to be fun #but the approaches in NSR so clearly aren't *that* they were supposed to be fun but just weren't (IMO~) #i just can't rationalize it in my mind #so someone please tell me why

[simple-persica]

Ayo ya boi got herself a job! So between that and school, I'm gonna be swamped. As a result posting might become a little more sparse than it already is.

But I still wanna stream at the usual time, so I'm just not gonna post here when I do stream. I'll be better at scheduling streams ahead of time so people who are subscribed can see when the stream starts.

Commissions are staying open too btw.

#also streams might not just be art anymore #I wanna have fun and do things I enjoy #like stardew valley #also that horror game I started and never finished becuase last time I played I got sick #those two events probably aren't related but #anyway streaming's gonna be a little more diverse now #also...might just...pose videos #like actually #I've already drafted a script for one that was supposed to be a tiktok #but it was too long

[witchblade]

people hating chiaki for being a hypocrite like it’s not literally what makes her epic 

#i guess nocturne being my first smt game as a kid probably shaped my interpretation #because it does diverge from the others quite a bit (though i need to replay strange journey bc i think that was also a bit subversive) #the point being the reasons presented are not supposed to be logically consistent and they're not supposed to sway you #like they're very evidently supposed to be self-serving bullshit by a cast of incredibly insecure people (excluding hikawa) #the true answers being freedom and tde* (the first being neutral and the second being chaos but very funny.) #i think the fact that all of the solutions suck shit and aren't supposed to be you the protagonist building a perfect world is really good #and fun. but i also havent replayed in a while i havent decided if i want to do the remaster bc i never got raidou before #or if im playing the ps2 version with the original translation...