#The Sandman (Game)

[miyukisaeki23]

Aquí tenéis otro vídeo de the sand man! Terminamos la serie con el mejor final posible, donde nuestra querida Sophie le dice un par de cosas a ciertas personas.

#small streamer #videojuegos #twitch streamer #youtube #streamer #pc #the sandman game #the sand man rpg maker #the strange men

[levionok]

Neil-verse goes brrrr

#the sandman #good omens #the oldest game #dream of the endless #dream #lucifer morningstar #crowley #aziraphale #levionok

[clearlyaginger]

Demisexual? No, you misheard. I said Dummysexual. I'm attracted to that moron over there. Look at them. They just tripped over nothing and set the house on fire. I'm in love.

#marvel #arcane #dc #star wars #the mandalorian #castlevania #avatar #doctor who #game of thrones #ghosts #good omens #house of the dragon #the last of us #lucifer #merlin #moon knight #once upon a time #red vs blue #rwby #the sandman #shadow and bone #stranger things #supernatural #the umbrella academy #vox machina #wwdits #the witcher #john wick #lotr #the hobbit

[meowmeowhissss]

She is perfection and I am going crazy right now

#wlw post #sapphic #gwendoline christie #gwendolineuniverse #lucifer morningstar #the sandman #brienne of tarth #game of thrones #in fabric #jan stevens #flux gourmet #top of the lake #miranda hilmarson #star wars #captain phasma #larissa weems #wednesday

[cornsword]

Happy International Women’s Day

#the sandman #sandman #neil gaiman #shawn mcmanus #a game of you #wanda #international women’s day #comics #vertigo #vertigo comics #karen berger

[aghxst]

Kinda still in shock that I pulled this off, but happy to share with you my rendering of Morpheus in Hades!

#the sandman #morpheus #dream of the endless #hades game #hades #hades supergiant #my art

[pyrecryptid]

Redraw of my first Sandman x Hades crossover with the new BTS pics for season 2!

Click to enlarge for better quality. Bonus simple background under the cut

#the sandman #the sandman spoilers #the sandman comics #hades game #dream of the endless #hades supergiant #the sandman season 2 spoilers #tom sturridge #morpheus #hades #zagreus #viarts #yeah im very normal and okay and not screaming crying and throwing up

[jurassic-cunt]

he's a 10 but he's sitting on a park bench moping while his sister yells at him to find a new hobby

#feelin sorry for urself bc ur little game is over and u haven't got the balls to go out and find a new one #lol sibling behavior #sandman #jurassic-cunt

[gloriousgwendolinechristie]

>>Neil Gaiman and George R.R. Martin mention their shared love of Gwendoline Christie (Brienne of Tarth in Game of Thrones and Lucifer Morningstar in The Sandman).<<

#gwendoline christie #the sandman #lucifer #neil gaiman #game of thrones #brienne of tarth #grrm #george r.r. martin #lucifer morningstar #asoiaf

[miyukisaeki23]

THE SAND MAN EPISODIO 5 VAMOS AL MUNDO DE LAS HADAS

Nuevo vídeo de the sand man. Espero que os guste mucho.

Recordar darle like y compartirlo para que llegue a más gente.

#youtube #youtube videojuegos #videojuego #videojuegos #indie #indie horror game #the sand man #the sand man game #the sandman game #the sandman videojuego #the strange men

[skz-miroh]

no sorry i just heard ‘everyone’s gay’ and immediately watched it, i wasn’t aware that i would get so invested in the plot that it would take over my life.

#what we do in the shadows #wwdits #aftg #all for the game #haikyuu!! #the sandman #sk8 the infinity #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #bnha #good omens #bungou stray dogs #bsd #nandermo #andreil #dreamling #renga #matcha blossom #satosugu #itafushi #nobamaki #bkdk #ineffable husbands #soukoku #shin soukoku #hannibal #hannigram #ofmd #our flag means death #seraph of the end

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was in a mall and I meet Dream of the Endless.

He played a video game were he shared an account with his sister Death.

He played it on a big screen so everybody could see it and people were laughing at him because he was lame and the game was old.

After that, purple zombies attacked and I woke up.

Also I was so happy to have Dream in my dream because I was like, "The king of dreams is in my dream! Like wow!" He was like a famous person for me and after I remembered that he is not real and I was like, "Oh..."

#dream #sandman #video game #game #gaming #dream of the endless #mall #death mention #death #death tw #zombies #zombies tw #nightmare

[meowmeowhissss]

These photos are what keep me alive tbh

#wlw post #sapphic #gwendoline christie #gwendolineuniverse #lucifer morningstar #larissa weems #brienne of tarth #game of thrones #wednesday #the sandman

[na-shoba]

happy birthday, gwen!

and big thanks to my partner @bri-sonat for helping me!

#gwendoline christie #brienne of tarth #game of thrones #got #lady brienne #ser brienne #captain phasma #star wars #phaddy #captain phaddy #top of the lake miranda hilmarson #top of the lake #top of the lake china girl #miranda hilmarson #wednesday larissa weems #principal larissa weems #principal weems #larissa weems #wednesday #the sandman lucifer morningstar #the sandman lucifer #the sandman #lucifer #lucifer morningstar #mine #poster #movie poster

[thenightling]

“The Oldest Game”

   I was surprised to find someone in my Sandman Facebook group actually complaining about “The Oldest Game” in The Sandman Netflix series (episode 4).  They seemed disappointed that it wasn’t a “Real” battle but instead it was “like watching them play Dungeons and Dragons.”  Meanwhile the majority of us Sandman fans loved the scene.  When I first read that scene that was when I knew I was reading something truly different from the usual DC content.  I was reading something truly special.          To the person complaining about it, I am afraid The Sandman might not be to your taste.  There is very little physical combat and scenes like The Oldest Game / “I am Hope” are what hooked a lot of us.

       The Oldest Game is based on something TV Tropes (and The Sword in the Stone) calls a “Wizard’s Duel” or a Wizard Duel.  The concept turns up a lot in folklore and mythology.  It’s where two magical entities (sometimes sorcerers, sometimes Gods, sometimes shapeshifters) have a duel of wits and creativity using their powers and imagination.   There’s a similar trope called the Transformation chase and there is an overlap but the transformation chase usually requires there being a chase.  You see a sort of single-person transformation chase in Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among thieves.  

     In The Sandman this battle was for Morpheus’s helm.  If he won he got his helm back.  If Morpheus lost he would have been enslaved by Choronzon The Demon.

     Here’s how the game usually works. The challenged usually gets to make the first move. They pick a form or a spell and it is usually non-lethal.  You’re supposed to start small and build up to bigger / more imposing things.  The battle follows TBL (Turn based Logic) like in a tabletop or online text based role playing game. So the Dungeons and Dragons comparison isn’t actually wrong so much as it’s not quite the right role playing game.  (Yes, I AM a nerd. Thank you for noticing.)  

     After the first move is made the opponent may take the hit and then make an offensive move (attack) in return or instead of taking the hit, they can make a defensive counter move to avoid taking the hit but in doing so the person loses the opportunity to make a offensive move.  If you’re clever you can sometimes get away with a single move that does both but that is tricky.   So the choice is usually take damage and attack or protect from damage and not attack until the next turn.  The game is usually about “one upping” the opponent so you go for something slightly bigger and better than what they used.  

     In some versions of the game you are allowed to defend yourself and then make an attack move during the same turn so you don’t have to make the choice of defense or attack. In both variations, if you’re clever enough you can come up with a combo of attack and defense in one move but that’s rare.  

      Usually it’s like this.  If your opponent throws a magical dart, you can create a shield or shoot a similar projectile but in some variations you can do both if you can pull it off in a single concept (like creating an armored knight holding a sword and shield). If the rival turned into a rat, you can turn into a cat.  Hopefully you get the idea.  You can’t go too big too fast or the creativity and strategy the game is known for is lost.  It’s a game of wits and creativity after all, not really brute force.   

     Recently I have seen some people try to argue that during the Lucifer and Morpheus version of the duel that Despair can kill Hope and that Lucifer could have won if she was willing to say she is Despair.  No, that may have just caused an unhappy stalemate because pretty much everything that can destroy Hope can also be destroyed by Hope.  Hope kills Despair as surely as Despair kills Hope.  They are two sides of the same coin after all.  It would just be an infinite loop at that point.  However there is also the argument that Hope springs eternal while Despair is always only temporary, depending on your perspective.  

      I have provided three pop culture examples of The Wizard’s Duel.   The first is the version in Netflix’s The Sandman between Lucifer and Morpheus.

The second is from Disney’s Sword in the Stone between Mim and Merlin.  

The third is from the 1963 film The Raven starring Vincent Price and Boris Karloff.  I have a bias in favor of this one since I love this movie. It was written by the late Richard Matheson, directed by Roger Corman, and starred Vincent Price. It came out the same year as Disney’s The Sword in the Stone.    

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZOwaeAEIw0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxqhjWcS8zQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2gBhMdJ23Q

#The Sandman #Sandman #The Oldest Game #Wizard's Duel #Wizard Duel #Morpheus #Dream of The Endless #Lucifer Morningstar #Neil Gaiman

[thatonequeeraunt]

Love the rise of queer immortals in media. It's like a representation of saying "we've been here forever and we're not going anywhere"

#or at least that's my take #wwdits #what we do in the shadows #interview with the vampire 2022 #interview with the vampire #iwtv #iwtv 2022 #first kill #good omens #the sandman #hades game #i know i missing some but this is what i got at this time