#Games 2 and 4 especially?

[arinmoss]

i painted Astarion hehe :3c prints here

#i planned on doing a quick litttle sketch based purely on memory than i was like maybe ill use a ref actually and then i ended up making #a painting of that guy lmao #this took anywhere from 2 to 4 hours idk a good amount of tim was looking at his face and trying to remmeber how to fucking draw lmao #like im bad with making drawings look like someone but i tried! #haven't played the game btw i dont have the moeny nor the laptop for it but i have been watching a lets play of it #want to try and draw more of the companions especially karlach and wyll cause i love wylls design and i love karlach #astarion #bg3 #astarion bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #astarion baldurs gate #astarion fanart #painting #art #art work #digital painting #arin moss #arin moss art #also i know his hairs not that curly but i like drawing hair like this lol #im sure theres more i can fix but whatever i fix it lateer maybe but liekly i wont lol #okay i edited his face a little but idk if this version looks better #maybe ill go back and put the old version in but for now i think this looks a tad better but idk idk #baldurs gate 3 #astarion ancunin #fanart #vampire #vampire art

[tastytofusoup]

Final Fantasy X-2 (2003) ↠ Aboard The Celsius

#final fantasy x-2 #ffedit #ffedits #dailygaming #gamingedit #vgedit #dailyvideogames #final fantasy #gaming scenery #yuna #rikku #ps2 #playstation 2 #tofuedits #mish yoona what can i doo for yoo #these are EXTENSIVELY edited - especially to get them looking consistent #some sets are wham bam It Just Works #this was 4 hours of messing around

[somethingaboutmint]

Maccready did not need the sadboy deadwife backstory at all but in my mind the idea of his wife being the same lucy from little lamplight is like kind of genius actually. They're both around the same age and got out of lamplight around a simmilar time and the idea of them finding comfort in being the only thing familliar to the other in a huge wasteland thats unkind to everybody is like. DO YOU GET ME. AND THE FACT THAT FROM THE AGES OF 16 (when they left lamplight) TO 22 THEY MANAGED TO SOMEHOW HAVE A KID WHO MANAGED TO GROW OLD ENOUGH TO PLAY IN A BACKYARD BY HIMSELF (im guessing atleast like 2-3 years old i doubt he was unattended but the way maccready says it its like yeah he was just playing one second and suddenly hes randomly sick idk tangent over back to my main point) BEFORE LUCY EVENTUALLY DIES (brutally. Thems the DC for you) AND MACCREADY GOES TO THE COMMONWEALTH WHERE HE'D HAVE TO BE SITUATED FOR ATLEAST A YEAR FOR THE TIMELINE TO MAKE SENSE IS FUCKING INSANE. AND I KNOW ITS JUST BAD BETHESDA PLANNING/WRITING BUT ALSO THEM BEING RAISED IN A COLONY OF STRICTLY CHILDREN BASICALLY AND THEN ACCIDENTALLY HAVING A KID PRETTY MUCH FRESH OUT OF THE CAVES ITS LIKE. IT MAKES SENSE. Dumbasses do not know what sex ed is!!!!! Like everything in maccreadys backstory can literally be explained by the fact that he and his wife were raised in a fucking cave by OTHER CHILDREN and are NOT NORMAL. Maccready is dark and broody because he lived like 40 years worth of emotional trauma in half a decade. Lucy being from lamplight also connects fo4 maccready to fo3 maccready better than if it was just some random girl cuz maccready could be literally any other bastard with a dead wife but if Lucy is also from lamplight then its ALSO AN NPC YOU MEET AND TALK TO AND KNOW IN FO3!!!!!!! Yeah it fucking sucks that they had to resort to the dead wife trope for the 7th time in fallout 4 alone but it really shows just how brutal DC was and gives mac leverage to like connect with the sosu cuz THEY JUST LIKE ME FR LIKE YOU KNOW???????? In reality his backstory is fucking stupid but in my mind i modified it and now it rocks. I want to give lucy depth. I want to make a million stupid headcanons about her from how she was the only person stubborn enough to keep up with maccready to how anxious she was about leaving lamplight before maccready promised they'd go together (you know to help her feel better not because he thinks of her as a friend or likes her or anything b-baka). Todd doesnt understand my vision

#fallout #i dont want to tag this anymore i dont know why i went so unhinged over this specific topic. #its 2 am #i just. shakes my fists at the sky i love overanalyzing insignificant shit especially in fallout 4 #fo4 writing infuriates me cuz its not always bad but when it is it hits so fucking hard and has so many plot holes #still mad about the game being like yeah kellog lived over 100 yrs with some technology we made for especially for him once and never again #like idk. is this anything.

[welcometoteyvat]

not so live reaction to ga-ming gameplay video leaks

GOD!!!!!!!!!! i swear i dont think they've made a 4* with so much love and thought since like. probably yun jin. i think most ppl are stunned but like MAN. his idles???? the 10 sec of fully animated lion dance? it changes color and instantly reminds me of hong kong neon lights (his burst too tbh)?? THE BACKGROUND DRUMS IN HIS IDLE???? you can see in his normal attack sequence a very short plum blossom pole pops up and he steps on it, and like AAA idk. his animations. :') they really put so much effort into him I wouldn't be surprised if we got an entire yun jin opera animation w him too.

have more to say about how people weren't super happy about the removal of the white elements in his design, from the concept art, but i think the more i look at his design—he has a real/modern style name, is youthful, has neon effects, lively animation, everything matches up to create a very young adult character, a lot more modern than some of the liyue designs, it's nice. it's a cohesive design that actually hints at what his personality is like and what he does and that's a success i think.

there was a bilibili comment wayyy early on (before this leak flood), reacting to the disappointment about his leaked final design, basically saying, "lion dance is still a job, he probably wouldn't wear his uniform all the time even when off duty, and that's why his design seems to have less lion dance elements and looks more casual" etc. looking at ga-ming now that everything's released via leaks, this was def what they were going for. like you can tell that he's a vanguard, that's his full time job, which translates into the primarily black design, but you can also clearly tell he's a lion dancer as a side hustle. idk it's really nice :') i dont have much else to say, besides i think they probably nailed his design as best they could

#now if mihoyo could stop nationalpridemaxxing and put as much thought into other nations 4* as him. maybe theyd be a better game overall #but this is a win regardless #i did not intend to type this much but it just Happened. #last couple comments. he is so canto it's CRAZY. apparently his cn intro has a couple freq used canto phrases that i didn't pick up on #specifically. mighty mythical beasts in cn is 威水舞兽 and the first 2 is v common canto phrasing. and his last intro line talking about #why not enjoy a bit more tea. is somehow a pun or internet meme? unsure about this one but someone commented on it and i was like huh #anyways. those two + his special dish + everything else idk. im going crazy. congrats to all southern chinese people especially diaspora #genshin leaks #ramblings! #ga-ming #gaming genshin #嘉明

[dropoutparty]

I might make a crazy huge autismo post in a couple days but I'm just so worried that no one will bother to read it,, my therapist would tell me to do it anyways but like it's happened *before*!!

Maybe I should just be interested in things that aren't incredibly niche LMAOO /s

#shout out to that time i wrote like 4 or 5 massive posts going into a detailed summary and analysis of something thay literally #2 people would post about #if u remember that then ur a real one #i never finished that bc i lost motivation :p #coffee says #the post will be detailing my thoughts on i have no mouth and i must scream btw #bc ive been hyperfixing on it... ill mostly be talking abt the game bc its by far the most fleshed out version of these characters that we #ever see #and probably WILL ever see. hopefully... i really cant see ihnmaims ever being remade in a fitting way #especially since harlan ellison cant voice AM anymore bc. yknow hes dead LMAO #i just cant picture ANYONE ELSE in that role. he really does it justice

[puhpandas]

I can't be the only one who's pissed off about every fnaf theorist/some fans being obsessed with Cassies dad for some reason and even saying hes gonna be a new protagonist. like does anybody else feel this way

like maybe it's just me but why on earth would they deviate from the main cast so much for this random ass guy. it doesnt make sense like we already have 3 main characters in Gregory Freddy and Vanessa as a group and another 2 in Cassie and Roxy we don't need anybody else especially not a random dude 😭 why would he be a new protagonist over Cassie herself

#they didnt even deviate in early fnaf #in every game u played as Michael except for fnaf 4 most of fnaf 2 and ultimate custom night #like we have 5 main characters already we dont need anymore #especially not this randon unimportant man compared to the very important characters with still unanswered questions attatched to them #pandas.txt #pandas talks #discourse #pre help wanted 2 #theory

[zebrafiz]

FAT!

very quick beach attire lookbook because i went on a body preset downloading spree & finally found some skin overlays and sliders that help to make fat sims look better (rolls!!!!! cellulite!!!!! stretchmarks!!!!) most of these fit perfectly, but some DO clip in certain areas. its not too bad tho. this is also a pseudo-introduction to the sim i will be using for @simussy‘s bumblebabe lookbook challenge!! 

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#its sooo frustrating whenever u realize certain cc (or even base game stuff) just isnt.. FOR fat sims like theyre completely excluded #especially as someone bigger myself like dude its hard enough trying to find clothes that fit me irl!! can i just dress the sims that look #similar to me in peace! #anywaysdfjhgdjh i made this in like 2 hours for real #mysims #myedits #lookbook #ts4 lookbook #sims 4 #the sims #ts4 #sims 4 cc #ts4cc #maxis mix #sims 4 lookbook #simblr

[invinciblerodent]

one part of BG3 that I appreciate a lot (and feel like I don't see mentioned quite enough) is just how many different ways there are for the companions specifically to break up with the player, or for them to openly say that though they love the PC, they either cannot abide by whatever it is they're doing/have done, or that they know that there isn't really a chance of a happily ever after for them.

the characters having their own morals, and actual, strict boundaries that are immutable and which they abide by, that's always really nice to see, and I feel like it's not quite as common as I'd like it to be.

like, sometimes I feel like in certain big or popular games, the players are kind of... coddled, in a way? either by not being given the option to do heinous shit (and thus there not being a need for them to experience consequences), or by negative consequences to actions being written in a way that makes them inconsequential, or avoidable altogether. I like that this time, there are things for which that's simply not the case.

every time I see someone be like "I did this thing that this character told me they hated, and they DUMPED me for it! that's so stupid!" I always just feel glad that the characters were written mostly to stand up for themselves, even if it's against the player. that's just always really nice.

#squirrel plays bg3 #astarion especially has like what... 3-4 different scenes? that can trigger of him breaking up with you? #and all of them are very reasonable and like... yeah yknow what that's understandable #very “well what did you expect was going to happen” #that AND the levels of SALT certain types of people produce when their in-game boo won't just let them do whatever with no repercussions? #that too is just delicious #here let me do this straight-up heinous shit; but oh no not the quencies!!!!!! #like... isn't the point of making those decisions to experience the consequences....? #well this. this is one of them #(yes I just saw a short of the breakup if the player forces sex in act 2) #(yes internally I hoot and holler; way to go you funky fella YES dump that asshole!!!)

[sun-marie]

What I really think media with ensemble casts, especially those in a traveling group of some kind, are missing are big, blow-out arguments between the group. Especially when there's a conflict of interests, I am such a sucker for when two or more characters disagree so strongly that they realize very little is actually holding them together as a group, and wonder if it's time to go their separate ways.

I feel like a lot of video games, specifically, just kind of assume once the traveling band is "complete", it's forced to stay together until the player expressly permits it, but I don't really find that very compelling and a lot of times it feels more like they're relying on some kind of immediately strong bond that hasn't really been earned. Which is a shame, because in my opinion one of the best ways to strengthen that bond is to have the characters disagree and argue. Maybe they realize they're only being superficially held together and so they temporarily split up, only to then realize how much they've come to care for the others in the group. Then they reunite, make-up, formulate a plan to go forward, and boom, the group bond is that much stronger. Or maybe they don't even split up, and maybe they never learn to like each other, but they decide whatever cause their working toward is more important. Something else, bigger than them, is holding them together.

It just feels like a lot of potential is going to waste to just skip straight to the intense found family bond, without earning it.

#there are exceptions of course #like I thought it was clever how bg3 did it where the group didn't necessarily intend to be traveling together this long #and then once they learned about the tadpoles and the artifact it turns out it's either stay together or die #but a disagreement between them every once and a while instead of assuming they're all insta-besties couldn't hurt #and DA2 kinda circumvents this by Hawke not really going anywhere #so if Fenris isn't having a good time with Anders he can just like stay home and vice versa #but games like Octopath Traveler 2 would really benefit from some stronger disagreements #like my first playthrough Castti's ch. 4 and Osvald's ch. 5 lined up right next to each other #and like vague ot2 spoilers #but what I would give to see them hash it out #over whether to save thousands of people Castti doesn't know potentially at the cost of saving one person Osvald cares a great deal for #or vice versa #especially with how hardened Osvald's become it would have been soooo juicy #i get that would've been difficult to implement and that's probably more the job of fanfic #but that's just an example of what I mean #idk I just think more creators shouldn't be afraid to have their characters seriously argue with each other #because not every disagreement is a dealbreaker and can in fact strengthen their bonds #and like not every game cast needs to be found family! but if you want that found family effect you have to show them arguing like a family #poe1 is a good example of a group that travel together and don't necessarily have this tight bond #they just feel like good friends (mostly) #i had other examples that I can't think of now and may add later #I feel like I was going somewhere with this but yeah it's just something I've been thinking about #let characters fight sometimes. conflict is what makes stories good #edit: FE: 3 Houses was the other example I was thinking of! #like things get pretty dire in the Blue Lions route and Dimitri has some pretty questionable moments #but with the exception of like Felix hardly anyone calls him out on it they just kind of go along with it #and lo and behold Felix is one of my favorite 3H characters and his friendship with Dimitri is extremely compelling #bc their friendship was tested and survived #marie speaks

[bimiio]

So what’s a Butch daddy gotta do to get your attention?

just show me dat u want me <33

#by sending an ask like dis 4 example ^_^ #i’m also open 2 DMs #ESPECIALLY if we’re mewchies or i interact w u a lot #just don’t open too strong #i mean unless we’ve been playing a game of tag tag #like flirting thru da tags or makin indirect posts abt each other or wutevr #which i LOVE btw #dis is another way 2 get my attention #asks #anon #femme4butch #butch daddy #butch4brat

[solipseismic]

how is it that we get a roommate to replace the former roommate whom we had beef with for screaming at their video games and the new roommate does the same exact thing but with a different emotion. like didn't we get you to avoid this exact scenario

#granted there were a lot of other worse and different reasons why we kicked alyx out #however; #and granted we did say at the beginning of this thing that new roommate is a twitch streamer and games a lot so this may be an issue #HOWEVER. #4 days out of the week i have to text this fuckass to keep it down bc i hear them shrieking clear across the house at 1am after they? idk? #get shot by a 13 yr old in fortnite? #get good i guess! #genuine rage over this due to i can hear them yelling right now (it is 1130 pm) #and it isnt even a good game. and? you aren't even good at it. #idk. skill issue on both counts! i dont have a bad time in game bc im good at it. and even when i do i am not making noises #especially not noises that can be heard across a hallway and two (2) doors #like the most insignificant of insignificant petty grievances but perhaps the one i am most frustrated by #somehow #'ahhh i play fortnite ahhh i'm having such a time playing fornite' i have nothing but contempt for you. #in the most asshole way possible. after having played a few games. telling ppl u play fortnite is embarrassing. #no matter how u do. u win? congratulations! you just wiped a bunch of 13 yr olds #u lose? congratulations! u just got wiped by a bunch of 13 yr olds and some fuckass who drops $50 weekly to get some fuckass shiny gun #or whatever. #ANYWAYS ... #everyone avert ur eyes im tired and pissed about a variety of things. #croidhe #AND they don't clean up after themselves EITHER. granted not to the extent alyx didn't #and at least they're not a complete asshole. but. did we NOT get you to avoid. this EXACT scenario.

[solradguy]

FINAL FANTASY IV BEST FINAL FANTASY!!!!!!

Tbh I don't even remember why I bought IV on the GBA over V (I LOOOOVE EXDEATH) but I made it to the part where you meet Sage Tellah in the cave and stopped in that safe room right before the boss fight in the cave. The plot has me really interested in where it's gonna go though; having the protagonist slaughter like two entire villages back to back right at the start of the game is a WILD hook lol

I also appreciate getting to play an adult that's fully aware of what's going on in a FF game for once haha Though, I've beat 7 and 8, most of 10, and played only a bit of 9, 10-2, 5, and 15 so I know 4 isn't the only FF that doesn't have a young/naive protag.

Cecil looks cool affff

hell yeah

#asks #Imo his paladin design is a little bit of a downgrade but I'm sure it'll grow on me once I find out why it happens #4 is one of the FF games I like NEVER see anyone talk about EVER #But it sort of seems like its original release was a little bungled here in the west? So maybe that's why #I wish I'd beaten 10 back when I first played it but I got stuck on a boss and then I ended up moving houses and never got back to it :( #10 gets memed on really hard but honestly it's got some of my favorite art direction in the whole FF series. It's so unique/pretty #7 is iconic of course. I liked 8's character writing/development a lot more though but 7's art beats it #I reeeeaaalllly wanted to get into 9 because the art direction in that one is super unique too but... Zidane lost me... I'm sorry......... #If I had to order the FF games I've played at least some of from most to less-most favorite I'd probably list them like: #8; 7; 10; 15; 5; 9; 10-2 #The positions of 5; 9; and 15 would probably be different if I'd played more of them. Especially 5 #None of them are really 'bad' though like I don't think Final Fantasy as a series is even capable of missing haha

[haresvoid]

Would it be too bold to eventually add my 4 "tavs" that have an interlocking story of their own?

#OOC. tbt #( i especially plan to add 1 2 and 4 tbh #i need to technically finish the game both main and dark urge but i keep making new characters ugh #anyways I am here today so i will be writing things ! )

[timeisacephalopod]

Part of being Canadian is how similar we are to the US, and honestly not a single person on earth I think could genuinely pin point the difference between Canadian and American culture but the average Canadian. Americans assume we're the same as them (we aren't), even a bunch of Canadians think we're Americans, especially around voting seasons, and about half our cultural identity is "we're Not American!" but there are some cultural differences and if we all spoke French equally we could have had a language distinction but nooooo. Despite not being America unfortunately such a fuck off massive country right below your teeny tiny ass country (population wise) does result in a cultural avalanche from said fuck off massive country. Especially when you share a language.

The war of 1812 will forever be funny to me though because Americans were like "hmm maybe Canadians would also like to tell the British to fuck off, we will invade to show them!" And Canada was like *burns down the white house* and we've been tentatively chill with each other ever since lmao (even when we probably like. Shouldn't be cool with America but like. We could not risk that implosion politically or otherwise it'd be suicide).

#winters ramblings #apparently americans think they won the war of 1812 and you did not. you did not achieve your goal #and a bit over 100 years later canada would nicely ask sempi to be free and britian decided yeah i guess #you guys did a vimmy ridge in WW1 i guess you can be yourselves #and native people- still unable to vote and would be ineligible for another some 50 years or so- were probably like ??!!!!?!!! #REMOVE these pale faced demons!! and i cant say i blame them for that even if my settler ass does not mind being from here #no fucked up spiders very few fucked up bugs ok seasons amd weather where *I* live anyway #i cant complain too much aint no spiders the size of my head OR fucked up weirdo beez on steroids that look like some feckin #HUNGER GAMES ass shit and not an earth bug. if i lived on either coast though my opinion would be different #especially the east coast FUCK their ocean-y assed winters lake effect is bad enough. the SNOW BELT is bad enough #i cando without that shite too although outwest aint better especially in the praries but still no fucked up bugs so 🤷🏻‍♀️ #anyway i do genuinely believe if youre not canadian you wouldnt even know the difference between America and Canadian culture #OR the difference of history and even CANADIANS dont know our voting system isnt the same #like we dont even have half the shit Americans do like an electoral college and canadians STILL think we need to vote #as if we're in a 2 party system. we arent. arguably were in a 4 party system but 3 if you reasonably dont count Greens #its fuckin weird though because youll see people talk about canada and america interchangeably #and like i cant evenblame em when even some canadians get confused or WORSE actually WANT to be america #usually conservatives who like deepthroating boot #although i do think this is somewhat odd as a phenomenon because America doesn't have ONE culture #what canada is near idential to is NORTHERN Americans like the south is a whole Thing with a textured history #like obviously the north is too but culturally i get that more than what the south has going because you could even argue #the south have MULTIPLE cultures and in the north you could at least argue the coasts are distinct culturally #like they got terms like pacific north west we dont have ANY of that we are an EXTREMELY small rural country #its strange to confise it with America but at the same time like. yeah that makes perfect sense to me. and not all at once lol

[butchez]

played p4 all day 👍 thoughts below

#1. kanji dungeon was possibly the worst thing ive experienced in any form of media #i was expecting atlus to keep kanjis sexuality kind of vague but they really . spell it out. slurs and everything #well its over now at least. surely there arent any other transgressions against the lgbt community left in this game 🙂 #2. i really enjoy the cast so far ... yukiko and chie especially i love when women interact with each other #not really big on the protag so far tho .....hes just not very transgender. sad #3. adachis so lame LOL youre telling me youre still killing people at 27 YEARS OLD ? GROW UP #i assume hes the killer at least ... i already know hes evil or smth #i was honestly shocked when he said he was 27 i thought he was WAY younger. literally checked his wiki page to make sure he wasnt lying #4. i loveeeee nanako i hope the game does interesting stuff with her. little girls who are so autistic about costco ❤️ #i remember her winning in some persona tournament poll against akechi and i was really hoping that wasnt just a meme thing #bc i love it when younger characters are written well ....stories usually never take them seriously or bother to give them actual character #jude talks #persona lb

[feydfuckernation]

was going through some folders today trying to find something and found some of my old video game photography instead! decided to post a few of my favourites from some of my favourite games

#despite never having been a photographer i went through a phase where i was genuinely obsessed with photo mode in video games #and i would see how incredibly specific i could get with it #long story short i have whole folders dedicated JUST to uncharted 4 (especially the scenery) #it is RIDICULOUS just how good that game still looks for something that came out in 2016 #i think it looks better than some games coming out now tbh #i also have a lot from ghost of tsushima because i really liked the filters #lion.txt #gaming tag #assassin's creed odyssey #assassin's creed origins #ghost of tsushima #infamous second son #the last of us #the last of us part 2 #uncharted 4 #uncharted 4 a thief's end