#IPLs | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

marcheriest · 4 months

Text

the bachelor takes the stage

#pathologic #daniil dankovsky #artemy burakh #clara #re: ipl news

882 notes · View notes

palaeolithicc · 1 month

Text

(Some) of the moods of Lestat de Lioncourt in 'An Extended Look at Season 2 | Interview with the Vampire'

#interview with the vampire #iwtv s2 #lestat de lioncourt #the vampire chronicles #iwtv #*mine #Ipls don't talk of the 3rd gif. the coloruing is shit. i hate it. waah

408 notes · View notes

btw-its-tamanna · 1 month

Text

@hauxicrook bhratashree hope aap match dekh rahe honge, to yaad rakho jeetegi to CSK hi 💛💛

#CSK #IPL #cskvsrcb #Bhai dekhlo ab to #Tamanna and CSK

70 notes · View notes

illconceiveddesigns · 2 months

Text

#pathologic #the bachelor pathologic #daniil dankovsky #this is how he tested the water in laras quest #trust me im ipl #pathologic 2 #pathologic hd #Мор Утопия

82 notes · View notes

rathologic · 5 months

Text

biggest disconnect in pathologic's reception has kind of always been a divide between "patho is driven by mechanics" and "patho is driven by story" camps where opinions only ever come from one of these extremes... around p1's development and release the developers considered it exclusively a survival challenge sim, not a game marketed for its story (despite story representing a huge fraction of the time and thought put into it). In The Society Of Dead Poets goes into so much detail about this. and it WAS a stunning technical work under the circumstances, but the complex story was what gave the franchise cult appeal, or at least enough so for it to get a sequel... reviews from the period tend to go along the lines of "this game looks and plays like shit but it's extremely thought-provoking". there's a little to be said about the mainstream view of a "Gamer" in 2005 and what they would be interested in marketing-wise not tracking with story games yet; anyway, the one-dimensionality here was consistent with the studio's approach to games as a whole (cf BoneHouse.ppt).

so IPL's perception of their work was what informed p2's priorities, which turned out to be A Way Better Survival Challenge at the expense of things like characters having complex motivations (expansion on this has been omitted; iykyk), and they did an incredible job with that & basically perfected what they had been going for mechanically. which created this weird divide where p2 fans think 1 isn't worth playing because it's less engaging as a gaming experience, and p1 fans (me included, to be clear) see 2's story changes as a spit in the face of everything that made the series work. like, neither of these are fundamentally incorrect, but they refer to completely non-overlapping paradigms of engaging with the material. when hopefully it can be agreed that a Video Game is comprised of Both a narrative aspect and an interactive aspect, and that they need to work together to create the player's transformative experience (again, premise of BoneHouse.ppt).

Anyway. that helps explain a lot of hbomb's stance on the franchise, particularly that he can endorse patho2 without comment as an ostensibly leftist youtuber when even the most cursory playthrough is enough to let players in on its gleeful centering of ecofascism... that game's representation of colonial relations as an unfixable divide employing the racist trope of reciprocal violence, its obsession with maintaining status quo, and its completely tasteless approach to MMIW are all elements of Story and thus all secondary to p2's huge improvements on the survival system. in the same vein, his discussion of p1's changeling's route is limited to the constant reputation decrease and the repeated quests because those are the only mechanical features introduced over the previous routes, even while clararoute text is fundamental to understanding most characters... his video isn't like Bad for getting the interactive experience p1 would present to you, but it sucks for engaging with the story because it's not about the story. and unfortunately, on discussion posting websites, we do usually post about story

#pathologic #I'm so tired.#FAQ: BoneHouse was a presentation given by an IPL writer who will go unnamed here regarding his philosophy to gamedev. ItSODP was a lengthy #interview with the same (there's an EN translation on archive.org; BoneHouse is on the Files section of the archived IPL webpage).#genuinely I do really enjoy p2 as a survival sim and I think the most interesting things done with it (challenge runs) arise purely from #engaging with that half of the gameplay. but there is nothing to talk about w/o the plot it presents to you and that's why hbomb's video #falls so flat to me in applying that same approach to 1; a game fundamentally not balanced in a way that that's a fair take

127 notes · View notes

aahanna · 2 days

Text

Loyal rehna koi RCB Wale fans se seekhe 😭

#desiblr #desi shit posting #ipl meme #rcb #viratkohli

53 notes · View notes

permian-tropos · 4 months

Text

ok but "the promo materials for new bachelor route proves that daniil has never cared about his patients in the town, that's just fanon" yeah I... im killing you a bit :))) me when I fucking get you

#and yeah it is annoying that ipl leaned into that characterization in the promo materials #daniil was always contradictory in that regard! he could be both callous and caring #it was better writing lol

84 notes · View notes

iamthekarmapolice · 4 months

Text

i am so excited to see what they do with the bachelor route in terms of themes and central ideas. artemy’s route did that disco elysium synecdoche thing of the character being an extension of the setting and so the themes of nature vs industrialization, tradition versus modernity, childhood vs growing up were seen in both Artemy’s internal struggles as well as the Town at large. But daniil is an outsider so that kind of resonance just won’t be possible. So what will the themes be this time? The central idea? Ahdhahdgdjjdsh I’m so excited and ready to have my brain chemistry yet again altered forever

#I don’t even want to speculate because i really want to go in as blank as possible #also im not even worried about the mechanics #based on patho 2 ipl have earned my complete blind faith #pathologic #I wonder if it will be about failure though because that’s what daniil ends up talking about on day 11

61 notes · View notes

kabhi-kabhi-aditya · 25 days

Text

mai aur mera bhai mummy ke vps ghar aate hi