#tag games in quarantine

[crimeronan]

i've downloaded zombies run & i'm three missions in & enjoying it so far, but it's also so Tragically and Hilariously clear how much this story was written in 2012. and how it was also less interested in subverting genre expectations than making you move your body (very fair!! given that that's what the game is designed for!!)

the two most egregious things in these first three eps are:

1. i was paired for a run with a coughing woman who insists she "just has a bad chest cold," and even though the camp supervisor firmly establishes that coughing is THE FIRST SYMPTOM of an infection, i'm instructed to go out running alone in the wilds with this lady. who's coughing. so much.

she keeps being like "it's just a cold 💕" while refusing to let anyone examine her and i'm like. YOU GUYS DONT HAVE QUARANTINE PROCEDURES?? PUT HER ASS SOMEWHERE AWAY FROM THE REST OF US?? DUDE??

2. it's then established that everyone at the camp is suspicious of me because other camps nearby have been torched after being visited by shady-ass secret-keepers very similar to myself. but i'm still allowed to roam around and do supply runs like it's nothing. the NPCs just mutter mutinously about me and make allusions to how i'm gonna get everyone killed.

PUT MY ASS IN QUARANTINE?!?!? DON'T LET ME LEAVE WITHOUT ANSWERING QUESTIONS??? WHAT???? YOU GUYS HAVE GOT TO GET A GRIP?!?!?!

the lack of quarantine, safety, and hardass procedures would be excusable if this was a hippie commune or solarpunk future or whatever, but it is Not. this is an AMC's walking dead style deal where the only people more dangerous than the zombies are the non-zombies.

so i'm like.

YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE LAST RUGGED BASTION OF HUMANITY. WHAT ARE YOU DOIIINGGG.....

#zombies run #prepare for more posts with that tag if i feel so inclined #YOU CAN'T JUST NOT QUARANTINE PEOPLE IN THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE IM GONNA CRYYY #NOTE: there's ten more years of story and 500 missions. i'm NOT genuinely upset about this or knocking the game. #i'm having fun and looking forward to seeing where future storylines go. i'm just also like Oh My God.

[pharawee]

I should finally catch up with Naughty Babe, Love in Translation and Venus in the Sky but...

#jane watches stuff #all my mutuals out there with impeccable taste #and then there's me watching an old show with bad cgi ghosts and a plot held together by covid-19 quarantine measures #boss is v cute in it and that's all that matters #i have literally no standards #this is why i don't do that tag game about bad bl shows #i simply can't tell if a show is bad if it has actors i like #i'm like a proud mum whose 8-year-old is playing a badly-costumed tree in an underfunded school theatre production

[daydreamingmiller]

tag game! first celebrity, outfit, quote, and aesthetic pic on Pinterest is your vibe!

thank you to lovelies @joelsversion @annasinterests @ilovepedro @softlyspector & @tinygarbage for the tag 🤍✨

npt: @cowgurrrl @ghoultalks @clickergossip @breakfastatjoels & anyone else who hasn’t already been tagged/wants to do it! 🫶

#unsure what the vibe is here😭 zero cohesion #wish I could explain the Thomas Gibson in a cowboy hat pic. #the criminal minds quarantine phase ran DEEP my Pinterest is still haunted #hotch was the beginning of my dilfism downfall #tag games

[fluxedbuds]

o boy new life series cant wait to Stop Watching As Soon As Someone Permadies

#i dont need more tragedy sorry. but i DO want to see what stupid shit they cook up in there #i need to root for tango also. maybe he'll uh. well. end of sentence. #its kind of a shame im too much of a sap to enjoy em bc theyre truly goldmines for Ideas. y'all have fun for me ok? #life series #secret life spoilers #life series spoilers #footnotes #why are skizz and tango like a bonded pair of birds. god i hope bdubs joins them i want to see that disaster. im rly sad cleo bailed #the heart theme is SO CUTE and will probably stop being cute very fast but SHHH OUTFITS #also i WISH i could be excited abt new watcher subclass symbol dropping but i can Feel the grian fandom being bastards with it #ah yes another morally ambiguous figure who follows their own rules and judges very fairly from that basis- #oh youre making them evil. ok. yeah so theyre the new twisted sicko in charge of the life games even though thats Literally Just Grian. ok. #i have not and will not actually verify if this is what is being said BUT this is one time i would LOVE to be wrong #maybe my curse of saying something abt hermitcraft that immediately becomes false will work out in my favor for once? please? hello? #but yes i will not look and this is tags instead of a post bc truly. i need to get over myself. i Wont but at least i can quarantine it

[mangonatural]

Rules: Make a 24 hour poll with the names of your WIPs, let it run, then work for 10 minutes for every vote the winner receives.

Thank you for the tag, @angelcasendgame!!!!! I am not sure I will be able to work on anything very soon just because life came after me again, and turns out I'm gonna be moving over the next month or so, but I really do hope I can find time!!

None of these have names yet lol. I put the SPN ones first, but technically I've been trying to break my writer's block by returning to The Great Gatsby (It's all Nick/Gatsby btw, just realized that might not be immediately evident) with limited success. It's always come easier for me. But all of this is stuff I do actively want to work on.

Ohh I don't know who to tag. I'm sure everyone in this circle has been tagged already, and most of the people I talk to regularly enough to know about their projects have more or less left Tumblr... I do absolutely want to pass this your way though, @antique-ro-man!! (It's Wes, btw!) I also wanna tag @heyfagbutt! And then anyone else who sees this and wants to participate, I also encourage it!! This is such a cool idea :D !!

Long, rambling explanations down here ⬇⬇

I think the name is pretty explanatory? The gist of it is they go after the same guy and become pseudo-enemies but they keep bumping into each other like this and decide to work together after a while 👍 this is a really bad hook LMAO. Anyway, I'm trying to build on the idea that they work REALLY well together when they do it intentionally but fail comically when they don't.

Pretty much what it says on the tin as well. No Supernatural AU. Dean goes to a community college to get a certification to help with his work elsewhere, but Cas, a figure drawing model, catches him drawing (which Dean's been doing on and off as a hobby) and tries to get him to sign up for the arts program.

I technically only have a summary of this, and I'm not entirely sure if I will write it all out, but I do want to at least put more time into the development before I dedicate to giving up on it bc of scope lol. I just have SUCH a soft spot for fake relationship AUs. Also, I just found out that while I have FINALLY aged into independent FAFSA eligibility, I am once again tax bracketed out. Anyway, financial abuse is real and I want to project my suffering onto Dean. Also immigrant Cas, but I haven't decided where I want him to be from yet. I think this has a lot of potential for some pretty hefty character redesigns too so it's also compelling to me from that angle. I guess I could also write it for TGG, but I did initially think of it for Destiel, so.

I don't know how to explain this one very well except that I had unhelpfully written "poolboy au" in my notes and then proceeded to forget what the hell I meant. This fic was an attempt to resurrect that but ended up being a funky modern West Coast re-imagining where Gatsby can't even "make it" as much as he wants to, and Nick can't find a place to live except for a less-than-legally rented pool house. It's not meant to be a full rewrite or anything though.

Uhhh yeah, I'm keeping the details private for this one ahaha but that's just because it wasn't supposed to be a big deal and I told a friend she would see what it was when it was done...like oh god probably a month ago at this point... My original scope for this was quite small, but research for it, indecision, and a nasty case of writer's block that I've had for nearly a year now have kept development a bit slow. Hopefully, I'll finish it before the year comes to a close.

I also don't know how to explain this one well other than "after being rejected by Daisy (Canon Divergent), Gatsby attempts to buy his way into a bewildered Nick's heart. Though the fic is from Nick's POV, Gatsby's just had his worldview shattered and is in a bit of denial, but instead of pursuing Daisy harder, he channels all of that energy into Nick (though he's not really sure why he's doing it at first). I wasn't sure what to put up at the top because I absolutely don't want my code name for this public at least until it's done LMAO.

#new post #tag game #spn #cause i'm gonna kick this over to my main too bc of the tgg #but i SAID i was gonna quarantine the spn stuff here so . #sorry i feel soo much more rambly than normal #did you know that some property managers will approve you in fewer than 2 hours after you submit your application? #can't stop thinking about that

[bug-kid-benny]

How's rain world treating you? Apart from the everything wanting to eat you

ITS SO FUN and challenging in the absolute best way possible!!! its my total favorite game rn i play basically every day im on my like 90 somethingth cycle in subterranean im having a blast and i only got mild ish spoilers from getting super excited and browsing through tumblr

i dont really know where im going right now but my main goals are explore as much as i can and befriend the scavengers (and also get better at the controls)

gourmand and survivor doodle from while i was in class today :D

#i have died so many times #i love this game so much #i dont know how many areas i have left to find out about #ive been in uhh #outskirts and industrial and chimney canopy and shaded citadel and farm arrays and subterranean in that exct order i have the game open rn #i know theres like a coastline or somthing for me to find #also like 20 or so of those cycles maybe more were spent in this one part of industrial zone right by the like quarantine area lock thingy #with the pit to jump over #not a very good place to be #and i was so new to everything i would get so close to the amount of thingamajig cycles symbols thingies to have lived to pass the gate #and then die all the way back down to zero again lol #im moving a lot now though its great i wanna fill out the entire map at some point #idk why i put these all in tags #benny rainworld happenings

[eggmarr]

send me an ask w/ your favorite genshin character and i’ll tell you one of my hcs about them with little to no context

#please send me asks i’m stuck in quarantine #tag spam #genshin impact #genshin impact x reader #albedo x reader #kazuha x reader #diluc x reader #kaeya x reader #zhongli x reader #childe x reader #itto x reader #ganyu x reader #keqing x reader #sucrose x reader #🔎/ games

[hey-its-cweepy]

,,,,, I did a thing-

#john doe visual novel #john doe game #john doe #yousona #its been more than 10 days because quarantine is seriously messing up my perception of time #I can no longer percieve time #IF ANYONE ACTUALLY MAKES THIS PLUSH CONCEPT A REAL THING PLEASE TAG ME #I am too poor to make it myself

[kiwinatorwaffles]

I think the whole bladsuma thing should tell you how intimidating you are. :p

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN

#BALDSUMA. ALWAYS BACK TO HAUNT ME #ask game #anon tag #the baldmits quarantine

[bobafett]

playing my least favorite kind of overwatch tonight, a little game i like to call "Local Ana Only Person On Her Team Paying Attention To The Widow"

#the thing about playing casual low ELO quick play is that even a bad widow can rule a lobby because either everyone starts playing scared #or else no one pays any attention to cover and given enough unhindered attempts even a bad widow will hit a headshot #ah well that's life. we still won the game and i got like three endorsements presumably for my widow spotting contributions. #from the beehive #overwatch quarantine tag

[lesbianjoannaharvelle]

i was tagged by @xofemeraldstars thank you! <3

last song: Contaminated by Banks (the acoustic version... it's so fucking good)

last movie: Escape from New York (1981). Listen. I'm a lesbian. but seeing Kurt Russel in his tank top was a great experience

last show: supernatural... oops

currently reading: A happy death by Albert Camus, Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy, Le Serpent D'eau by Tony Sandoval

currently working on: another samruby amv (lol), joruby fic, belajo fic, jocassie fic (can you tell i wanna give jo a girlfriend)

favourite colour: green!

sweet/savoury/spicy: sweet

coffee/tea/cocoa: tea

craving: lemonade

i'm tagging @mrcowboydeanwinchester @sonorousangels and @angelfishofthelord <3<3<3

#thank you!!! #PLEASE tag me in stuff like this the next day i am in quarantine and i'm already so bored.... :(( #tag game

[southislandwren]

oh boy school tomorrow! I missed 8 classes. I missed 2 work shifts. I missed 2 exams and a quiz. I have an essay due and I don't know when. I have accounting homework due tomorrow. I have a lab report due tomorrow. I have 2 days of lab to complete in 1 and I work immediately after lab (so can't stay after). I woke up at 10am and my first class tomorrow starts at 9 which means I have to be up at 7:45 and there's no chance I fall asleep before midnight tonight

#i'm kind of hoping i test positive tomorrow morning so i don't have to deal with all this #at the very least just tomorrow so I can skip my long work shift and still be able to take my exams on friday #if i miss tomorrow all i'd miss is a quiz and ofc 3 more fucking classes #edited to say no nevermind bc i have to take a quiz AND an exam tomorrow. please test negative thank u <3 #but im still symptomatic so we'll see. maybe i'll be positive maybe these are just lingering symptoms #the problem is that my insurance doesnt cover covid tests and they cost 15 bucks each #which is a lot when you have to get 2 or 3 at a time AND you have to get groceries today too #but i think i'll be fine because dad gave me extra money with my rent money and my first paycheck should be coming soon #it sucks that i mindlessly scrolled the entire quarantine bc now its ending and im like. i havent made music or played that much video game #and now its back to the grind and i got this vacation and it wasnt even good for me #covid post #good news though we can retire the covid post tag and honestly i felt like i posted a very normal amount #okay. gotta make some quizlets and email some teachers

[shortfeather]

For the hermnautica AU, can you tell me more about either Joe or Etho (they're my favs :)) or h-2 and the "threat within themselves" because that is intriguing me. This AU sounds super cool! Please infodump whatever to me :D.

Joe in this AU is a teacher! He usually teaches first-year college courses or community college classes, and he's the "everyone's favorite professor" sort of teacher because of his laid-back attitude and infectious passion for whatever he's teaching. He's on the Hermatrix Convoy because he knows Cleo, the first mate of H-3, and when he told them he had to move to another star system for his new job, she got him a discounted ticket on the Convoy.

(putting the rest beneath a cut because this got Long)

His species is Sol ancestry, Ionian-born, which is a long-winded way of saying he's a human from the moon Io in our solar system.

In this AU, there's one truly sentient species per star system, though not every star system is inhabited, and not every sentient species has expanded to space yet. When sentient species do expand to space, they tend to migrate across the rest of the planets and moons in their star system before going for interstellar travel, and although terraforming exists and is used to make new planets and moons habitable for the species in question, it can't perfectly recreate the conditions of their home planet. So after a few generations, you start seeing minor genetic differences based on what celestial body you grew up on!

That's why it's not enough to say Joe's human; all that tells someone is that his ancestors came from the Sol star system.

(Also, making him Ionian because that's also a music term... exactly my kind of easter egg fact for AUs.)

Anyways, Joe in the story is very much the glue that keeps the survivors of H-2 from mental collapse. While survival in the literal arctic is different than a typical classroom, he finds himself able to use a lot of class-control/attention techniques to keep some of the bigger personalities (Gem, Cub, Grian) from completely snapping. Ren, who was captain of H-2 and is now in charge, is very grateful for his assistance in keeping the group from turning on each other. He keeps things light, and does stuff like decorating the kitchen of the ship, which maybe isn't helpful for immediate survival but does distract everyone a bit on the worst nights.

When the survivors get into Subnautica's actual lore and discover the Architects (the aliens who previously inhabited this planet and have since mysteriously vanished, leaving only their buildings and computers behind), Joe is also integral to understanding their work!

He's not the only one working on the Architect stuff, though. Xisuma is a cybersecurity expert and does most of the decoding/translating. Impulse is a chemical engineer and does most of the science-y stuff that builds off of the Architect's data. In between that, there's Joe, who has taught and worked with dozens of species for over a decade, which allows him to look at the bizarre organizational skills and writing style of the Architects and turn it into something a little more Galactic-standard for Impulse to use.

And for the H-2 and the "threat within ourselves," that's also Subnautica lore.

When you crash on 4546-B in the game, one of the first things it tells you is that there is an abnormally high bacteria count in the water. This is Kharaa, a highly infectious, 100% lethal disease that can infect nearly any macro-organism in the known universe. The Architects brought Kharaa to this planet to study it in a controlled environment, trying to cure it as it ravaged their population back home. When it was accidentally released from a lab into the oceans, they set up a planet-wide quarantine to ensure it couldn't spread any further, and fled, because Kharaa is no joke.

(Heads up, the rest of this post talks about the ways Kharaa infects you. It can get pretty intense. If you're sensitive to the topics of infections, mutation/mild body horror, and mental degradation, maybe skip the rest of this.)

Kharaa first manifests as typical illness symptoms, almost like a nasty flu. After that, it goes dormant for a while as it spreads and develops within your body. It can take hours to weeks to fully develop, depending on how lucky you are, and it can only be slowed, not stopped (unless a cure is discovered.) After it develops to a full infection, it starts to express symptoms again.

When Kharaa moves on from infecting you to actually killing you, it starts by mutating your genetic code. This both causes glowing green spots to appear on your body as the Kharaa inserts its own code into yours, and can also cause dormant genes to suddenly wake up and change your appearance or how your body works. Those who were able to report their experience of this stage with any degree of coherence have unilaterally described it as agonizing and said that their body doesn't feel like their own anymore. Eventually, their organs failed from extreme mutation, and the patients died.

It doesn't stop there. Kharaa, like rabies, can also infect the brain directly. This causes severe mental degradation, most commonly exhibited as severe aggression, but paranoia, catatonia, extreme mood swings, and self-isolating behaviors have also been reported.

Again, these symptoms can be slowed with extreme medical intervention, but not cured, not yet.

Like most not-well-understood infections, it sometimes goes out of order, especially with as diverse a group of species as the Hermatrix Convoy survivors. Some of them never show physical mutations beyond the green spots, which are relatively painless. Some of them mentally degrade long before they show any physical changes at all. The H-2 survivors have much stronger mental symptoms than physical, whereas the H-3 survivors, who almost never go into the ocean, only manifest mild physical and psychological symptoms.

It makes it tougher, not knowing exactly how someone will fall ill, only that they're guaranteed to die unless a miracle comes.

The only saving grace is that the Architects say they were close. Across every facility the survivors discover, the last few entries all say the same thing: "We are on the cusp of discovery. We know Kharaa's weakness. We know the cure is on this planet."

Only one facility has an entry after that.

"Evacuation is our only option. This planet is condemned."

#hermnautica #ask the author #THANK YOU AGAIN FOR SENDING AN ASK I LOVE YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT!!!! #i was originally gonna tell you about etho as well but then i saw how damn long this got XD maybe in another post #also yeah kharaa is VERY MUCH a threat within themselves. it's horrifying and tbh subnautica does not take it seriously enough #outside of the quarantine enforcement (big gun that prevents spaceships from coming or leaving by evaporating said ships) #ask to tag #also in game #the physical mutations just Go Away when you get cured #and it's like. it's canon that those are genetic mutations. you don't Cure those #so since the architects canonically have genome-working medical facilities (how they created the Warpers) #i decided that the player was able to restore one of those facilities enough to fix their mutations before leaving #and/or they got it fixed back in space civilization. either way.

[1001aus]

My Former Self Lies Slain

Chapters: 1/?

Fandom: Assassin’s Creed - All Media Types, Prototype (Video Games)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Characters: Desmond Miles

Additional Tags: tags will be updated as I figure my shit out, Desmond becomes a Blacklight runner, Non-Consensual Body Modification, which seems like a bit of an understatement since he isn't human anymore

Summary:

Desmond has been contemplating the benefits of sorting his legal paperwork out for a while. For one thing, he wouldn't have to take public transit anymore.

(Desmond is in Penn Station when Dr. Alexander Mercer is killed by Blackwatch. Things do not improve from there.)

#prototype game #assassin's creed #fanfic #fic tag #failed quarantine au #my former self lies slain #tags and such copied out because it's archive locked #I'm displeased with where the chapter ends but it is already so long holy shit

[nervousyoungtwinfantasydog]

before vs after quarantine

#picrew #me #about me #tag game #idk i’m bored and can’t sleep #you can tell quarantine Broke Me

[blastadiamond]

..oops 

#definitely got blocked by one of my fave video game blogs for being annoying in the tags yesterday #I always forget creators see all your tags when you write a novel in there now #im quarantined at my parents with covid right now and they announced tlou remake and lost myself lol #this is why I've had Tumblr for like 15 years and don't have any friends #any that are still here anymore #honestly im so insufferable about media im shocked I dont get blocked for being annoying more often #anyways to that blog im so sorry lmao I was just excited and losing my mind #personal #no one actually look at this