#play both games yourself

[atwas-gaming]

I've been thinking about this for quite a while and worried about saying this and coming across like some crazy UTDR fan (which I will readily admit to be guilty of, anyway, lol), but the OST's for both Undertale and Axiom Verge have some similar leitmotifs.

First off, I AM NOT SUGGESTING ANY CONNECTION BETWEEN THE TWO SOUNDTRACKS, MUCH LESS THE TWO GAMES. To my knowledge, Tom Happ and Toby Fox may never have even met. They may not have even played each other's games. I'm 99% certain they had no influence on each other.

But I do have a conclusion that I will get to at the end (and yes, a lot of you will probably think it's crazy), so please keep reading.

Undertale fans will probably notice a familiar 3-note arpeggio in Apocalypse. It's the one we call "Gaster's Theme." It's not exactly the same, but it's similar enough to make a UT fan rewind and re-listen.

This 3-note arpeggio appears in other tracks in both AV games, it's just most noticeable in Apocalypse.

The other one I noticed is a little easier to miss. It's at the very end of Inexorable:

Listen closely and you can hear the intro to Another Medium. Listen even more closely, and you realize that this leitmotif is just The Axiom, slightly rearranged.

But what's interesting is, there's no connection between Axiom Verge and Undertale! At least, none that I can imagine (and I have quite the imagination). Axiom Verge was released on March 31, 2015; Undertale was released on September 15, 2015- the same year, but almost 9 months apart. Since AV came out first, there's no way Tom Happ was borrowing ideas from Toby Fox, unless the 2 men actually have met IRL- I don't know, but I kinda doubt it, as Toby was nothing but a ROM-hacking, clickbait-posting, Homestuck composer working on Undertale at the time of AV's release. And I highly doubt Toby was stealing anything from Axiom Verge- Toby's a highly prolific musical composer in his own right, and while he's not above taking inspiration from others, he's always been open about where he got his ideas. So far, none of my research is indicating that he took inspiration from Tom Happ. And we know how Toby feels about giving credit where it's due:

So, if there's no connection between the two, and no known crossover of ideas, what point am I trying to make?

That this is evidence of God's presence in the creative community. Disbelieve that if you want, but that's the hill I'm standing on. God is everywhere, and He doesn't just favor the "good little Christians" with wisdom. He gives ideas to everyone. And it seems to me that, in 2015 and the years leading up to it, He decided to give 2 different men the same 2 prominent leitmotifs for their games.

And if that's not enough, let me also remind you that both games have a similar core theme of being stranded in some alternate universe (which may or may not be just a dream, in both AV and UTDR); AND both Tom Happ and Toby Fox have made statements that suggest the possibility of divine inspiration. Tom Happ's statement can be found here; and while I can't find the post anymore, I do remember Toby saying at one point that he has been surprised by the number of connections that fans have found in Undertale that even he himself didn't notice.

If this isn't God's hand at work, then I don't know what to call it, because it's just plain awesome.

#axiom verge #undertale #tom happ #toby fox #God's will #divine inspiration #call it crazy if you want but this is what i believe #God. is. EVERYwhere. #play both games yourself #listen to both soundtracks yourself #read and listen to interviews with the creators yourself #you can't tell me you don't see any similarities at all #i'm convinced that God is in this #in both of these

[nathanxiel]

So I've seen at least two post that call Stardew Valley a stressful game and as a loser who just about spend over 600 hours on that game along with at least 2 perfection farms I couldn't disargee more. I understand that farming sims aren't everyones cup of tea, I mostly grew up being the only one who truly enjoyed harvest moon. But I also feel like a lot of people just go into it with the completely wrong mindset. I read about complaints that basically go "theres a timer for the day and the seasons so you can't get X items when you want to/forgot to grab them during the season" And all I can say to that really is why are you rushing? This isn't real life you are not on a deadline you can take until year 10 to complete the community center you can wait until year 10000 there is no end and limit to the years you can spend. No offense but the mentality of minmaxing and getting stuff done the fastest way possible in real life have ruined ur outlook on a video game that legit has no time limit. You can sleep years away if you want to there is no consequence to doing so. Your animals don't even die when you do not feed them. Why are you so stressed? Why are you rushing this? Just take a breath and relax, some days I water my crops and go straight to bed, some others I spend fishing or doing other stuff. You have ALL the time in the game. The fact that some items are locked behind seasons have almost no consequence either, the only one I can think of is that you have to wait until next year. I understand fully if a game simply isn't your cup of tea but to go into one with a mindset of "I have to get everything done quickly" will obviously ruin the experience for you. Just relax and take it from day to day. Nobody is rushing you but yourself.

#stardew valley #also my perfection farms both took me until year 8 and 9 btw #this isn't a speedrun #neither is it a I spend 100 days in stardew valley challenge #give yourself some slack and enjoy playing a game from day to day without the stress of having to deliver something

[canyoureallycallthisablog]

Would you all still love me if I posted kirby content be honest with me I can take it

#kirby #king dedede #dedede #how do i tag kirby stuff this is my first time #i love them so much #when we as a fandom started seeing meta knight as kirby's father figure instead of dedede we lost side of what was important #yeah theyre both their dads but king dedede adopted them first #ive been reading the light novels nonstop and my heart cant take this #i love these characters so much theyre so silly #sometimes too silly #what is your favorite kirby character i would love to know #someone take me under their wing I wanna join the inside community so bad #reblog if you like kirby fuck yourself if you dont like kirby #also you should play the kirby games theyre really fun #this is my new hyperfixation #im not leaving undertale dw #underale will stay with me until the day I perished #but would you guys still be ok if i posted my kirby content here or would you rather I have another account #i want honest opinions here

[scp42069howthefisthisnametaken]

catching up decked out stream and I just realised Jimmy probably didn't want to choose Etho as he thought he will do terribly anyway so he wanted a good deck and mentor to go to someone who can do better

and Tango wanted everyone to have fun so he wanted Jimmy and Skizz to get good cards and best mentors to get the most out of the experience

I'm gonna be sick they are all so precious

#not to be parasocial but I will die for all of them #like it's literally so cool to see Tango so excited about people playing his game he deserves the world #and lowkey it's so cool to see him always hype up Jimmy he deserves this type of energy #hermitcraft #jimmy solidarity #tangotek #I also think it's why Skizz choose bdubs #what's both fine but also sad #Grian made it so it was random who gets to choose first for a reason and Skizz still managed to cheat system to give others better options #I need both Jimmy and Skizz to think better of themselves #do better believe in yourself

[fiendishartist2]

KEEP GAME CONSOLE RUNNING

#my art #digital art #artists on tumblr #petscop #paul leskowitz #petscop paul #explodes and cries and vomits and rips up the carpet and starts eating drywall #the closer we get to halloween the worse my petscop illness gets #PAAAUUUULLLLLLLL AAUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHH #paul cant leave his room and hes ROTTING. trapped in the family's house with no escape from the game. day in day out just playing petscop #bc hes obsessed. he needs to solve the mystery no matter how sick and distressing it becomes. bc hes obsessed #fuck. this part of petscop always fucks me up bc imagine how torturous it is #trapped in a house with ppl you dont like. that holds such horrible memories #you cant sleep bc the game is haunting you. both literally and figuratively #no matter how much it begs you cant turn it off and you cant stop thinking about it and when you sleep- #you see the red buzz of the screen behind your eyelids and the wailing alarm its letting out is unbearable #eventually you just give up and go back to playing the game bc you cannot escape it as long as you keep yourself in this fucking house #um anyways #i feel like when i make these posts i accidentally channel paul for a minute #tw eyestrain

[paimonial-rage]

from your character analysis ask meme, for alhaitham: Are they prone to jealousy? would he be too logical to be jealous? Would his jealousy be in vain or would it perhaps be a sign that his partner has crossed the line of sorts?

Definition of jealousy:

I apologize for taking some time with this ask. I’m going to answer this in a more analytical format because I think this situation calls for it. I want to say that no, under normal circumstances, Alhaitham is not the kind of person to get jealous. In my experience, there are usually three triggers for jealousy:

1. Reader interacting normally with friends and hobbies and partner gets (unreasonably) jealous

2. Reader getting too involved with spending time with friends/hobbies not realizing they’re neglecting partner which gets them (reasonably) jealous

3. Reader specifically does things that will incite jealousy within partner by purposefully doing things like ignoring partner or flirting with others

Alhaitham would not get jealous under the first instance. Being a very independent person, he would understand and respect his partner’s need for it as well. The second instance would be the closest he’d feel to your definition of jealousy. While he’d be able to withstand it for a while, eventually he’d probably feel neglected and would pull you away to capture your sole attention.

As for the third scenario, while he would get upset and would get jealous, I don’t believe this would happen in a normal relationship. Personally, I would never flirt with someone that isn’t my partner just for fun, even if I’m close to them. I think that’s a very hurtful thing to do to someone that has feelings for you.

So long story short, no, I don’t think Alhaitham is prone to jealousy. Not that he’s “too logical” to be jealous. He just understands and respects people’s need for independence. That being said, he probably can end up feeling neglected if left alone too long.

#genshin impact #genshin x reader #alhaitham #alhaitham x reader #anon #character analysis ask meme #now as i always do i’m going to answer the part you’re looking for in the tags #the reason why alhaitham wouldnt be a jealous person is that hes both reasonable and he doesnt play games #when you enter into a relationship with alhaitham he will make time for you and seek you out #he's self-regulating in that way that he'll make sure to get his fill of you regularly #even if you are busy he'll find some way to slot yourself in your schedule #and like... the thing with him is that he really doesnt need much #itd take you turning him down consistently for other things for him to get jealous and feel neglected #this is when he gets immature because if you try to spend time with him after you can expect some passive aggressive sass #'hmm... you seemed to be having a lot more fun with them instead' #you'd have to make it up to him #add onto that someone flirting with you? he'd swoop in there to stake his claim #that being said i highly doubt this would happen often? #you'd have to be REALLY DENSE to neglect him up to this point #when he is feeling neglected expect him to be more physically touchy #he'd just want you near #haha #sorry this isnt much #i'm the wrong person to go to for jealousy asks #i'm not a person that finds jealousy attractive #unreasonable jealousy i find restrictive and childish #reasonable jealousy i find as a sign i am not doing my job as a significant other #my job as someone's partner is to make them feel loved and needed no matter what #so if theyre not feeling that that means i'm doing something wrong and i need to fix it

[secretdazedragon]

#so maybe i rewrote my bg3 dark urge so i can use him in our rl games... well i changed everything about him but his facial design #dnd character #dnd pc art #when will i have the chance to actually play as him? no one knows #get yourself a wizard who can do both #i swear knowing his bg the two different clothing style makes sense

[bluestonewings]

Coming to the weird realization that pikmin and hollow knight r kind of the same game

#pikmin #hollow knight #playing both at the same time and thinking very hard #listen. one is a game about exploring remnants of a huge society that has fallen into decay. you’re tiny. everything tries to kill you. #folks make funny noises. you pick up objects. you get story through ambience mostly. i could go on #BUGS ITS ALL BUGS BUGS EVERWYERE TINY CREATURES TAKING THE FLESH OF YOUR ENEMIES TO MAKE YOURSELF STRONGER!!! #i'm laughing #bluestonehieroglpyhs

[bunnyb34r]

Always funny to me when my coworkers notice how much of a germaphobe I am when they see me wipe down my cart in the morning. I dont just wipe the handle, I wipe the top of the sides and the top part of the baby seat, places where people grab other than the handle. Then I use hand sanitizer bc by that point I've touched: the cart, the scanner locker screen and locker, my scanner (also wipe that shit down, yuck), my lock, and the spray bottle. So yucky places.

I mean hey maybe I'm not giving my immune system that boost of exposure, but I'm also not giving it covid, norovirus, or influenza from touching the cart and scanner so 🤷‍♀️

#marquilla #sometimes it gets them to wipe down their cart or at least their scanner lol #im always hounding RC to not chew her nails bc the forklift handle is FILTHY and to wear a mask #everyone else can build or break their immune systems with the abundence of germs about and mask/clean at their own discretion #which is like never sgdggdgdgd but yknow im sure them all getting colds and the flu are just coincidence #im so scared im gonna jinx it and get sick myself sgdgdgd like im more so worried ab covid bc that fucker has gotten me 2x at least and i #got long covid from both times 😠 im less scared ab getting other sickness but i do hold a grudge if i KNOW who got me sick #like i got pneumonia in hs bc this fucking kid in my class had it and kept coming to school and i was out for like 3 weeks AND had to go to #the hospital overnight 🙄 fuckhead oh and he was apparently notorious for skipping school to play video games in middle school #WHY NOT STAY HOME IN HS TOO?? i also had to go in an ambulance and it was awkward as hell bc it was just a transfer from the urgent care/er #to the kids hospital and you cant drive yourself or have your parents take you bc theres a chain of custody and shit #ANYWAYS spritz spritz motherfucker im lysoling you all for your own safety

[vermillioncrown]

i was so sure my wine mom vampire boyfriend would have wanted to hang the 'damsel' out to dry lmao

#damsel is the guy that poked my eyeball out and everyone hated i let him do that #hey but he gave me a sweet new eyeball that lets me latently see invisibility all the time! #something something the grinch's heart grew #verm is playing... #also my roommate and verm bf think i'm both rude and nuts bc i make shadowheart cast create and destroy water to clean off bloodstains #idk if summoning ghouls is supposed to work like this but i can't dismiss them? so they just turn into a pile of blood by my bed after rest #and i'm in a hotel room rn so i feel bad so i make shadowheart clean it up #''she doesn't deserve this verm.'' #''...cleaning up after yourself. in your video game hotel room. okay.'' #and i also found a funny exploit for free necromancy casts but that also got them mad #''i hope you're proud of how you play this game.'' #thanks i am with my spell DC of 23 🥰 #if i'm casting hold person on you you are being held 🥰

[always-a-joyful-note]

You don't know how much I can Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint code Enstars because I could. Because you have a set up where you are basically taking the place of Anzu--a person created simply to be the reader's/player's self-insert. Because the characters all exist to love Anzu while they're going through their own arcs. Because Anzu also exists to love and support the characters by the game's own coding. She is their world and their hope, and the enstars characters are her idols (and I don't just mean that as singers and dancers).

But slowly, I've seen posts and even small summaries of how Anzu starts becoming her own person, small ways apart from the characters. Yes, she's still quiet. Yes, she is almost always a Viewer. Except for the fact that this is a game story, not just a book or novel story. And games are meant to be played...not by the characters but by someone who is watching them but has not created them.

This is how Anzu has more power than a normal reader. This is also how she has less power than a normal reader. The game allows her to exercise power over the characters' lives that a normal reader of a book cannot--she can help along Trickstar, be the behind the scenes producer for a number of the idol groups in the school, doing something to make them shine. But she is always a puppet, controlled by the player. She has a silly personality with a questionable naming sense and determination and hard-headedness to boot...her preferences for the units and who she builds up are always changing according to the player. Her only goal is to make sure her idols shine (what more does a reader want than to see their characters shine?), yet the goal of the Enstars characters is to adore Anzu and make people like her who support them happy (where would the characters be without a reader?)

Like the Oldest Dream, she is the most powerful and weakest god of all. A puppet steered by the fantasies of many, many individuals yet always loved by the characters for "herself."

#okay first of all #orv spoilers #i know this is incoherent and slightly dramatic but FJIASOJEIRWERe #i am honestly OBSESSED with the self-insert aspect of this game #i know this is probably not how self-insert is supposed to work #and i stay far away from self-insert fics cause theyre not my thing #but like....a y/n character as an actual character???? #i latch onto anzu so much like girl i love you. you are yourself. you are me. you are the other people in the fandom who play this game #she really is everything and everyone #please forgive me i know its not that deep but i think it would be so cool of the writers to one day release a story that has an anzu card #where she becomes part of the world.... #that would be both the most hilarious thing and horrifying as well if written right #fandom spamdom #enstars #ensemble stars #stuff i say #seriously tho i keep thinking about it compared to orv #and how people always talk about yjh and kdj as a ship. and how anzu sometimes gets romance-coded words thrown at her #(maybe more in basic but i still need to read the basic stories) #and when you really think about it the relationship between the characters and reader really is like....every kind of love #its a romance that isnt a romance. a family that isnt a family. a friendship that isnt a friendship #you know what i mean? #yeah someone gag me before i start overthinking this i swear i am very normal about this game #okay finally finished this thing in my drafts and im having second thoughts about posting but ah well.... #this game is making me insane i think

[tiny--cryptid]

Speaking as a newly minted Fear and Hunger fan, I can't help feeling that the venn diagram between people who like this game and people who like Pathologic is a circle

#like they're v different gameplay-wise of course but they're shockingly similar in terms of tone and style #and they're both viciously punishing experiences #this being said I've only ever managed light interest in patho whereas f&h has grabbed me by the brain #i just like spooky eldritch bullshit slightly more than spooky folk magic bullshit #n e way go watch a playthrough of both these games. or play them yourself if you like video games that aren't fun and hurt you #pathologic #fear and hunger #pathologic 2 #fear and hunger termina

[anonymouspuzzler]

this is actually the first im hearing about deponia being Not Great so thank you for the anti-recommendation! i’d always meant to get around to that series one day, since as a kid i was really into daedalic’s other point and click series edna and harvey (which, from what i remember, also probably has not aged super well? its been a long time), and always felt a little bad that i never did. good to know im not missing much

finally i can use my platform for something meaningful

#anonymous puzzler answers #'aged poorly' is a really good way of putting it for both series honestly - if you liked edna & harvey the Vibes are similar #charming enough but plenty of things that make you do Cringe Emoji Dot Wav in retrospect. #and knowing the type of audience i have i think anyone who played deponia on My Recommendation Specifically would be disappointed #so: save yourself disappointment! play a game that loves you back! #i cant believe gollum the video game is responsible by proxy for making me talk about deponia on main again. fuck you gollum the video game

[emmafaeru]

one of the things that's insane to me about terraria is it's lack of online prescence. it's the 10th best selling video game of all time. there's like 3 people who make videos about it. it's been around for 13 years. there's not even 400 fics tagged as terraria on ao3. 45 million people have played it. there are maybe 4 pieces of fanart somwhere if you really dig for them. and the crazy part is I totally agree. I have never wanted to create about terraria. I have rarely if ever wanted to consume content about terraria. this is a game I have a disgusting amount of hours in and I would give a very high rating of and I have never once gone feral over it like I have with other things I consume. terraria is this ball of awesomeness of a game mixed with this complete fucking undecipherable void of a prescence and i think it's insane

#if we're actually thinking about why though #1) the complete lack of story/worldbuilding/setting/ heavily discourages any attempt of a narrative #it would be like trying to write a captivating story about minecraft steve in minecraft block world #'but minecraft has so many stories thought up in it! like [insert minecraft smp]' #2) yes but consider that minecraft's relatively short - and frankly unfulfilling - progression #means that after you beat minecraft the only thing left to do is to create - either with yourself or other people #which incidentally is also why minecraft servers are such a big thing - becuase of that natural steer into playing with other ppl #however (as anyone who's tried to beat it knows) terraria has a LOT of progression - and it's all built to be extremly satisfying progress #which means when you beat terraria. you can beat it again! in any one of 2098456 ways you choose all of which give you a unique playthrough #incidentally this is also why in my experience servers are so much less of a thing in terraria #while the modding scene is sososo much bigger and relevant - tapping into that 'replay the thing but DIFFERENT' again type of replayability #I'm comparing terraria and minecraft btw because both are sandbox games but they have wildly different prescences #and often times people will write minecraft having more content down as 2d/terraria being more limiting creatively #but actually some of the prettiest builds in a videogame I've seen were in 2d/terraria #I think there's a more fundamental difference at play there #in the type of replayability that mc and terraria offer #one kind of forces you to create or play with others if you want more out of it #while the other offers this kind of seemingly endless well of challenges that never steers you in that co-op/creative direction #both are great in their own right #but it means that minecraft has more content 'staying power' as it is a space designed first and foremost to steer players into creating #and also most importantly - cooperating and playing with others to creat together #while terraria more often focuses on that core gameplay experience/challenge #while never steering/forcing players into that creating/co-opting space #unless they intentionally seek out that experience for themselves #see - the terraria builder community (not massive last time I checked) and server players (I don't think they exist) #also 3) eye of cthullu is stupid hard to draw in 3d without doubling over laughing #like 👁️ <- oh man look who's floating ominously!! he sure is gonna getchu!! #^ I ramble about things #also i still think terraria is better than minecraft. for the record

[avallachs]

dragon’s dogma is currently available for au$6.79 on the nintendo store (with a cheaper price tag, i imagine, if you’re in the us) if you’ve got a switch and have never played this game before & want something new !

#cv advance bundle and cv anniversary bundle are also both available on sale for au$15 and au$6 but this ain’t about them #ophelia.txt #please do yourself a favour if you haven’t played this game before!

[maddy-ferguson]

fun fact about me: i'm insecure about so many random things that i've never flipped anyone off in my 22 years of life because i think my middle finger looks awkward and ugly by itself

#and like i say: brf slt #i felt like this especially when i would have been likely to do it semi-regularly like in middle school. but like i was thinking about this #the other day and i did it in front of a mirror just to check and it looked as bad as i remember like it's just not for me #i have a story abour middle fingers though or just about what one would call the finger #when i was in what an american would call the 5th grade (i can never do when i was x years old because it's not an accurate representation #of the class i was in since i skipped a grade and the grade is what matters more to me. when i was 9 and my friends were 10 i was saying) #we would always play this game called girls catch guys or guys catch girls where the girls would run after the guys and like tap them on #the shoulder and then they would go to prison and they would line up and another guy could set them free by like touching one of the #prisoners it was a very fun game except it's way more fun to be like the ones getting caught than to be the ones catching and we would #ALWAYS play girls catching guys and it was very unfair we would be like okay in the morning we do guys catching girls in the afternoon #girls catching guys so it's fair like normal system but the guys NEVER wanted to do it (and we would always give in because like we still #wanted to play ig and idk guys. female socialization) they never wanted to be the ones doing the catching it was so unfair because we also #didn't like it as much and we did it all the time? #and i remember this one morning we were fighting about this we had literally all agreed that it was fair this way but they didn't want to #do it and my second best male friend flipped me and my best (female) friend off and (very #important detail) he did it with both of his hands so like two middle fingers and i don't know why because i'm not even sure that that's a #thing but one middle finger meant fuck you and two middle fingers meant go fuck yourself and to us that was very different? and i remember #my friend and i we like knew what it meant but for some reason we were like. he did do the one finger before doing the two does this mean #he...loves us because it literally means he wants to have sex with us #but what's funny is we never talked to him again after that and i don't even know why that was our last straw because i remember i #genuinely liked him before that like i said he was my second best male friend! so like maybe sixth best friend overall that's not bad #and he's not the only guy friend who flipped us off that year like it was so random to stop talking to him after that😭 #like he was an actual enemy we really did not like him we talked about him in letters we'd give each other using a nickname etc #and what's even funnier is in our last year of middle schoold FOUR YEARS AFTER THIS a friend of a friend told him he should become friends #with well my friend and he was like hm i don't think so have you seen who she hangs out with? marianne *last name* like why do YOU hate #me😭 it was so funny like wdym it was mutual this whole time. i had literally moved on by then i didn't even care about hating him #anymore like wow...i think he's the only person i hated who actually hated me back