#(in a video game)

[scheepstep]

Phil, seeing Missa logged on again: I'M GONNA FUCKING KILL MYSELF

#qsmp #philza #q!philza #missasinfonia #q!missa #IN A VIDEO GAME

[spookynyan]

go long!!

ALT VERSION i like both

#postal 2 #postal dude #postal #postal game #postal fanart #running with scissors #my art #i love throwing dynamite into a large crowd of people #IN A VIDEO GAME #i can never tell whether i like the stuff i draw...? this is ok i guess #i dont usually draw like this its more experimental again

[loganthrives]

RimWorld: Anomaly

I want to tell y'all a story.

So. RimWorld's fourth DLC Anomaly released this week, and for the past two days I've been playing it almost non-stop. I'll put it below the cut because its obviously a crapton of spoilers, but I'm just kind of blown away at how much story this DLC adds to the infamous story generator game.

Like, I have over 4,000 hours in this game and this is the first time that its felt like its telling me an actual story.

Spoilers ahead! TW: child death in the context of this cruel cruel video game:

I had this colonist join named Bristle who was described as a "leathery stranger" with a unique ability - he can blow up animals (and people, presumably) with his mind into hunks of twisted flesh. I said, sure, why not! Join my colony, what's the worst that could happen?!

Well, the worst that could happen is he went and studied a monolith on the beach outside of my base and it teleported him into a strange grey labyrinth. Pretty much just as soon as he got here, he's now trapped in some kinda void maze. Great!

It took me a couple of rooms before I noticed the markings on the floor, so once I realized I could read them I examined every single one I could find.

The messages are... Evocative, but they start giving me names. I'm wondering this whole time, who is Raisa? And who is Tom? I checked all of my colonists - I don't have anyone by either name. Are they people I should know? Or... People I haven't met yet?

Fortunately, because Bristle had literally just joined my colony, he came with his own rifle and 12x fine meals, so he could actually bum around and hang out in the labyrinth for a pretty long time. I ended up mapping out the entire thing before his last 6 meals disappeared from his inventory.

I found a couple rooms with fleshspikes - those are these pink little flesh monsters with a giant protruding spike coming out of their heads? - but thanks to Bristle's ability to explode creatures with his mind, I just... Exploded it.

I also found a couple groves of trees underground, a couple of horses randomly, and some bottomless pits. I was tempted to walk over one just to see what would happen (and savescum out of it ofc), but I didn't end up doing it.

I'm really concerned about Tom and Raisa though. Are they okay? Did they make it out?

I'm especially concerned about Tom. That... Doesn't sound okay.

And then I push through yet another door.

This is Raisa... And Tom.

I gasped out loud in real life. Nora came over to check on me because holy shit, that's so sad. Suddenly their notes makes sense. The obelisk abducted a woman and her child, and they got stuck in here for who knows how long. The wounds they had indicated that a fleshspike had done this to them.

I went to the exit - I had found it earlier, I just wanted to keep exploring. Thankfully, everything that had been left behind was kicked out of the labyrinth with Bristle when it collapsed on itself and the obelisk itself vanished from sight.

Including Raisa and Tom. I had to give them a proper burial. Wish I could've done more.

The messages were all from Raisa after she lost her son Tom.

I had done the two researchers one ghoul story start because I wanted to dive right into the DLC, and one of those researchers, Rose, arrived pregnant. Baby Thorn is almost three years old and still doesn't have a name.

Its kind of funny, because when I first landed she idly wandered near the monument, and I had one of those gamer coincidences where she walked by it right at the same time I got the notification that she was pregnant.

So I wound up continuing this colony even though it was a crap start, thinking I'd get some kind of void baby out of the deal? Nope, normal baby, normal birth. He's just chilling in his crib being looked after by the whole community as happy as can be. She must've been pregnant on the screen where I selected her for my colony and I just missed that detail.

Another funny thing about this kid, is that his father is Unknown, and apparently Rose's ex was the ghoul Kaito that I also started with. So, presumably, it was her ghoul (ex) husband's son, but the game's code doesn't seem to be able to link him as the other parent, either because he's a ghoul or because it happened as part of the game's starting conditions. Also she's actually gay on her character sheet, so I dunno how that worked for them? Ehh, I'm not gunna judge.

Anyways, I'm thinking about naming him Tom.

Here's hoping he has a long and full life.

#rimworld #anomaly #anomaly spoilers #tw: death of a young child #in a video game #I see that as potentially triggering even still #anyways I'm invested

[smellslikefeathers]

... Do you think Papyrus knew he was on a date with an eldritch being in the guise of a child, a.k.a. The Player? Was he aware and yet tried to make us happy anyway?

On another subject... in Deltarune... I wonder if I should have let Kris and Susie eat the chocolates... I wonder if Kris is mad at me... I wonder if that's worth writing a sequel to one of my fanfics...

#undertale #papyrus the skeleton #deltarune #deltarune kris #deltarune susie #chocolate #tw: food mention #in a video game #fanfiction #my fanfiction

[ryderdire]

Hey nice Minecraft revolution.  do the government next

#ryders rambles #shitpost #you know #in a video game #Minecraft #minecraft revolution #silly goofy

[fuckmatpat]

im getting really sick of matpat, when is he getting disemboweled

theres been a few users in the community here who have made takedown lists on matpat

and while that's great, it frankly isn't quite enough to make an impact on his numbers

i have a feeling he won't be relevant in the next five years lol

#mod cyrus #pov we take a chunk out of matpat #in a video game #notpukichosadly

[cetra]

I know The Game Awards are meaningless and not worthy of my rage but if Diablo gets a goty nomination today i will reduce Geoff Keighley to atoms

#In a video game

[sunkingwrites]

-RESET PLAYER- 

<.YES.>    <.NO.>

Are you going to press that?

Your save file hasn’t been doing too well. There was that one time you forgot to water your crops in favour of going mining, but you ended up finding a ruby for your favourite villager.

You could still press the button; you’re free to reset everything at any given time.

You could restart, skip the tutorial during the first cutscene, and reintroduce yourself to that villager with the prior knowledge that they love rubies. 

You would be ahead if you pressed it. Knowledge of secret foraging spots and what to buy first in the shops for maximum crop yield. 

If it's just your appearance you want to change instead of resetting your save file, that's entirely possible as well, for the correct sum of gold; usually around 15 million. But hey, apparently that's the price you have to pay to magically change your bone structure and the choice to wear either a skirt, pants, or shorts.

You know about the want and reward system designed to keep you playing. You don't completely understand why or how it works, but as you steal a look out your curtained window, realisation dawns- you can see the sun peeking through the trees around your yard.

A release of dopamine; you feel a strange sense of pride knowing that you spent the whole night completing achievements that could only be earned through hours on the game or with cheats. Even as you pause your gameplay for only a minute to take a sip of water, you itch to get back. The longing for digital rolling hills and twangy townsquare tunes has your eyes glued to the screen, the game is pulling you in, all wavy pixels of nature and farmland-

You're back to playing.

It’s been a while since you last came out of your room. There’s an empty water bottle on your desk that you rationed to avoid going to the bathroom, and a bag of chips: barbeque, half-eaten, pushed off to the side. You haven’t checked your phone since you saw the sun coming up hours ago. You can guess who would’ve tried to contact you, and none of them own the game.

They would just distract you.

There’s a hazy idea in your head of what day of the week it is, so you bring up the calendar on the bottom right of your screen; it’s two days past what you had thought. A twitch of panic has your hand momentarily frozen on the mouse, but you’re brought back to the farm as a cow moos in what you interpret as it needing to be milked. 

Problems, responsibilities, and prior engagements don’t hold any weight of importance or urgency as you scale a mountain on the outskirts of town. You’re after a special kind of crystal that you overheard the town’s storyteller raving about. 

Your eyes are unfocused, your throat is dry, and your fingers feel as if they could cramp up at any moment- then they do. Pulling your hand away from the keyboard to massage it, you hear a faint cry from your overheating computer. You’re falling. Your character is dropping through the air, a tiny computerised scream retching itself from the body of pixels, until…

Splat. 

-ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO LEAVE?- 

You tilt your head back to take in the view of the ceiling and contemplate the damage, a small, disappointed sigh moves past your lips. You click onto the menu screen, a hopeless gaze.

<.YES.>     <.NO.>

#stardew valley #stardew #self indulgent writing from highschool haaahhh #existential crisis #tw: death #in a video game #you die in the game- you die in real life? #sunkingwrites #stardew valley x reader #stardew character is self-aware?? o-o #i guess this is literally just a self-insert #2nd pov #stardew valley imagines #stardew imagines #my writing

[know-it-all-freak]

Screenshots of Paul as Theodore Walsh in Mia and the Dragon Princess, an interactive movie/video game. He is a villain in there, but a hot one.

(Doing the tongue thing while pointing a gun is so damn sexy!!)

Happy McGann Monday!!

#Paul McGann #my love #in a video game #a villain #but a sexy and hot one #and he does the tongue thing again #Mia and the Dragon Princess #McGann Monday

[dorianwolfforest]

God. Exilus would be such a cool name

#Siri how do I tell my family I got my name from a fake name given to an author of an article in a pro communist union funded magazine #in a video game #yes this is about disco elysium WHAT ELSE #this is all lies I’m still Dorian. I am too attached #Dorian exilus wolf sounds fucking pretentious lmao I love it

[spacedustmantis]

caught you in animal crossing

holy shit what

#that's me #in a video game #woaa #buggy thoughts #buggy answers #better than drinking alone #round and round #<- mutual tag :3 #get it? #bc disk

[subconsciousmysteries]

what I like about 7s is you can tell when they are fuckboys unless you have a room temperature IQ. maybe it is a natural talent that only I have (I really doubt this but I dont wanna insult ppl who've been victimized by 7 fuckboys). however it is just so obvious to me when a 7 dude is a fuckboy trying to taste all his options vs. when he is ripe and ready for commitment. the way that 7s show you bluntly when they are bored with you by ignoring you or only responding with one liners is actually a good thing. I find 7s to be very transparent, very obvious about what they want from you even if they don't directly communicate it with words. they are not capable of leading me on because they never give me the impression that they think I'm special in the first place. they never immerse themselves in my world and make me feel special because they're too preoccupied with their own.

meanwhile other types of men cough cough withdrawns are confusing as hell to the point it feels like manipulation and deception. they can larp like they are all innocent when they are the world's biggest fuckboys. they become deeply connected to you as a friend, they show you that they have a crush on you that they are too scared to act on, and they act like they're ready for exclusivity to get you into bed when often they are not. with words and with showing a genuine interest in your world, they make you think you are extremely special to them, yet many of their actions (or lack thereof) imply that you are not.

no one talks about how 7s with the 1 line can grow up and develop an intense dutifulness towards relationships. the meme is that 7s struggle with commitment but in my experience it really depends on the 7 in question. relational commitment issues are a lot more complicated than "lol 7". any type can have them and its usually rooted in trauma or plain old spiritual weakness.

see my tags for more

#7s struggle with committment towards a lot of things but relationships arent necessarily one of them #i see it like its a bar #in a video game #and the 7 bar for “things you struggle to commit to” is SUPER BIG #but many 7s consume that struggle to commit on non relationship things #like their job their work ethic their dreams their good habits (they dont commit to these things) #7s also have a capacity to commit which is small #but they can develop it to be bigger over time #and many choose to spend the little capacity for commitment they do have on relationships #anyways a problem is that 7s can lack the ability to make you feel special because they dont like going too deep emotionally #ive had this problem with my bf and been like “im leaving” but then he was always like noo stay #and i was like well thats the first time anyones wanted me to stay #all these withdrawn dudes made me feel like a princess but it turned out to be shallow words & platitudes because they didnt want to persis #actions are all that really matters and this is what assertive types understand that withdrawns dont #the tradeoff is that assertives are insensitive fucktards who make you feel like theyre always thinking about something better than you #assertives literally never have time for you. even if theyre sitting inside scrolling thru phone all day. its a psychological thing #their thing is always better... more worthy of attention than your thing. #intimacy is difficult with an assertive type. regardless of what your type is #3s and 8s guilty of this as well #im sure ive made my partners in the past feel this way... like theyre unimportant and im always thinking of better things #and i make my bf feel this way sometimes too #he complains #as do I #lmao

[apollos-boyfriend]

glad to see captainsparklez is going back to his roots ^_^ (making drugs)

#icarus speaks #vodblogging #IN A VIDEO GAME

[mailb0xbunii]

we vanilla'd your boyfriend sorry

waitwaitWait u meant boyfriend as in the song titled Boyfriend by justin bieber ?. seems i picked the wrong option on that poll .

#buniiasks #DROWN HIS ASS #in a video game #bun mailb0xbunii doesn't condone drowning pop singers !!!!

[strangleetomz]

being chased by the cops but i cant stop that duolingo grind

#in a video game #strangleetomz #duolingo #gta v

[zekkopunks]

im so distraught im gonna pick up smash bros again

#i need to beat up people #in a video game