#and don't just come out of nowhere

[solomiracle]

i am curious on your thoughts on ruri tunes...I personally like it quite a bit but it definitely makes it harder to binge through chapters as i get tired of playing the same 7 songs lol. I also wondered how they'd keep it interesting, considering I'm only on ch 12 and am dreading having to go to 30 with the same songs on the same normal level

OH BOY OH BOY ANON IM ABOUT TO BE SO ANNOYING >:D

On it's own, I like Ruri Tunes! I love the gameplay and the chibi characters are so cute!! But as a whole... it just doesn't work. Ruri Tunes is a rhythm game that's awkwardly shoved in, then forced to be important in a completely different kind of game.

Outside of mini-games or events, rhythm games aren't a thing you can just slide into your unrelated game with no warning. They're a genre, after all. You can't just put one into a visual novel dating sim, make it the defining factor of gameplay, and think players who never would've expected nor voiced want for it to be happy. It'd be like if you wanted to play a board game, but after setting everything up, found out that you have to play a first person shooter to determine how many spaces your piece moves. They clash, it's awkward, and most importantly, a lot of players don't like it.

Luckily, I enjoy rhythm games, so Ruri Tunes isn't that much of an issue to me. But it is to a lot of others. I've even seen some people say they've dropped Obey Me because of it. And I get it!! Ruri Tunes is incredibly time consuming (though the devs have clearly stopped caring about that, since non-VIP players can't skip event dance battles in SWD without using devil points), repetitive (as you mentioned, anon, they only have so many songs to use), and not to mention disability unfriendly! If you're going to make it mandatory, at least do something like D4DJ and include an auto mode!! It's like Solmare hates making money or something.

And the worst part about this is that there's genuinely no way to change Ruri Tunes (at least, no ways I can think of) without either making it the center of the game or pushing it to the side entirely. In rhythm games like Bandori or Enstars, you can actually ignore the story and only focus on the songs. You can do this in D4DJ as well, but thanks to the auto mode, you can actually just view the game as a visual novel with a rhythm game mechanic. If the devs were determined to make a full fleged rhythm game in Nightbringer, they should've done something like that. But because they were too afraid to let go of SWD's clunky ass story and gameplay shoved together deal, we got an "evolved" version of dance battles basically... for the worse.

TLDR: Don't mix two drastically different game genres together, unless it was intentional (and advertised as such) from the start. You'll make some people happy, some more people just okay, and a lot more people dropping your game.

#anon im so sorry #ik there are games out there that combine dating sims and “combat” #like sakura wars (2019) (i think. i barely know anything about it) #but those are properly advertised as such #and don't just come out of nowhere #AND DONT HAVE THE FUCKING. DROP THE OG GAME AND ABANDON ITS STORY SHIT #nightbringer's not like other girls #oh my god ive been typing for an hour #uh. #play d4dj #from me #asks #obey me #obey me nightbringer

[heritageposts]

iran has the right to defend itself

#like unironically #i don't want to speculate on what's going to happen but a big fuck you regardless to the western media stooges who are trying #to paint iran as the ''aggressor'' here #like this was just an attack that come out of nowhere

[jojo-schmo]

"We told our friends they were beautiful and recorded their reactions!"

Click the "read more" for the rest of the Waddle Dees' video :)

I misremembered the Waddle Dee camera crew's broadcast as Channel DDD when it's actually Channel PPP. Sorry... blame the anime for planting the wrong name in my head haha :'D

#king dedede #meta knight #kirby #bandana waddle dee #familial affection #art #Kirby series #waddle dee #channel ppp #can you tell who's love language is Words of Affirmation? hehe #they all appreciate it they just process it differently :P #I had this idea during my lunch break and I SCRAMBLED to finish it before I ran out of time #sometimes ideas come at me out of nowhere it's great #too bad ideas don't always come on command yet lol #team kirby #dream team

[canisalbus]

I remember getting nosebleeds every so often last year and it always freaked people out and the only thing I could do was laugh it off while I put a bunch of napkins of some ice cream place to my nose so I absolutely relate Machete in that nosebleed comic

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#ough sorry to hear that! I hope you're doing better now and the nosebleeds have stopped #I've only gotten them a handful of times but they aren't fun #they are a little spooky #the way they start out of nowhere #and the fact you can't see the direct source of the bleeding because it's coming from inside of your head #if you get a cut it's much easier to go 🩸👀 and think to yourself 'ah yea it's just a scratch no worries' #and press on it to make it stop bleeding and maybe put a bandaid if you think it needs that #pains that you can't see with your eyes are more confusing and alarming #at least to me I don't know if this is making any sense #maybe I'm just lizard brained #answered #anonymous

[qcomicsy]

Do I find Damian incredible annoying? Yes Will I fight every single motherfucker who resumes his entire character to violent and 'bad'? Also Yes.

#I don't know how many times I'm going to repeat myself but this is a goddamn child soldier getting repeatedly traumatize #in a family that has so many chaos that he always feels the need to prove himself in the terms he was taught #i didn't give a fuck what Damian does thats the responsibility of his father until he actually becomes responsible to his actions #and dc comics literally bought him out of nowhere just to shit on him and then repeatedly try to get rid of him for no fucking reason #Damian goin off as a way of getting Batman emotional damage it's actually very stupid dc you tried the same shit with jason in this last #ten years and not even then anybody liked #few things makes me more unreasonable piss off than batman letting his kids get away from him and then act like they don't need him #he did te same shit with dick but at least dick had the titans #this whole shit with Damian is making me read with my eyes while my hands are dialing the cps #Batman come get your fucking children your useless middle age man #bruce hate hours #damian wayne #damian al ghul #damian al ghul wayne

[bleaksqueak]

While i work I've been listening to an LP of the Telltale Walking Dead Games (the ones with clementine, I do not care about the others lmao). Ages ago when I played these I was well aware/amused that part of season 2 takes place in Parker's Crossroads/Parker's Run because I grew up right next to it and the detail stood out to me. But I never caught the line of "We'll head to parker's run. It's just up the road from here" until just right now. So I had a sort of "wait, where the fuck are they supposed to be right now?" (search)

ARE YOU SHITTING ME LMAO So by process of elimination, since it's the only city with anything even remotely resembling a large home supply store, that would mean they're in my literal hometown. My tiny hometown in the middle of nowhere that's never in anything that barely anyone knows of. How in the fuck lmao

#shut up pu #random stuff #I guess Howe's would be our Co-Op #I moved away forever ago but my brain often still returns to that tiny town. the biggest city in henderson county. lmaoo #Did they just randomly pick a place on the map for the location... parker's crossroads/run surprised me but it's at least more of a thing #i'm upset with myself for never picking up on that before #sorry telltale but we never had a comic book store you have to go all the way over to the next county for that #also your geography's wrong it's east tennessee that has mountains #west tennessee is all hills #i'm being nitpicky but it's out of amusement #of all the places to end up in a zamboni apocalypse #my poor girl clem lucky she made it out at all #lmao I strongly dislike this series all BUT these games with clementine #and I love her so much #goes to show what a good likable character can do #anyway I'm upset that you don't get to go raid the dairyqueen in season 2 #maybe this is an odd thing to post about but I literally come from a #“the nearest starbucks is 40 minutes away” level of tiny nowhere town #and playing this game when it first came out only to realize this detail about a decade later made me spit my drink out

[front-facing-pokemon]

#turtwig #AND GENERATION FOUR BEGINS!!! #never thought we'd get there so soon‚ huh? yeah‚ neither did i. it's like it kinda just came out of nowhere. i knew i was queuing up gen 3 #legendaries and that usually means the next gen is right around the corner but it's still surprising to me for some reason #seeing the beginning of gen 4. who knows. turtwig is one of those starters i used to not like but i've really come around to in recent years #y'know‚ they're cute! what else is there to say? the only reason i usually don't use them in playthrus of sinnoh games is just bc grotle #or. torterra is the final one. yeah. i'm not a huge fan of it as compared to like. infernape. but then again i think gen 4 just has kinda #weak starters for my taste. not like objectively. there's a liker out there for every starter‚ for sure‚ but they've just always felt… #i dunno. default. to me. maybe it's because gen 4 is the gen i played the most as a kid. next to colosseum i guess #so they really feel like Default Pokémon. when i think of pokémon‚ gen 4 pokémon are usually some of the first ones to come to mind #and y'know! turtwig is good! good pokémon! that's about all. i like it now and i used to not

[thebirdandhersong]

I think the problem. the problem is that I have always been afraid of not being invited into the inner circle. and am always wanting to be part of the inner circle. inner circle being the circle of love and companionship and communion. of course being a TCK and a bit of a sheltered homeschooled oddball child has nudged this further along over the years. but I didn't realise how STRONG that desire still burned. to actually be wanted.

#in other words today has been an oddly sad day! discovering that the friends you've made have their own group chats #that are separate from the general group chat (that no one ever talks on) that you aren't a part of is......... i don't know #i KNOW i'm liked by them and i KNOW they love me but do they WANT me around? #like. i know i'm not UNpleasant to have around. i am a good listener and a good conversationalist. #i work very hard at it because it doesn't come naturally to me. #but clearly that's not enough to be added to exclusive group chats! clearly that's not enough to be part of inner core circles #i don't know this just came out of nowhere and i feel as if i've been slapped in the face #sitting at a table where people are talking about the thing someone sent to the group chat #or the photo or quote or reel someone sent to someone else is....... bizarre. #i am trying not to be so hurt by it! i am trying not to take it so personally #it happens. i know it happens. i know it will keep happening. it is just that i thought this was a place where i wouldn't be lonely #and this is the dorm community i've invested so much of my time and energy and love into since last year. #so i think i'm justified in being a little upset! #i'm not crying about it but that's because i'm not about to cry with other people sitting here in the study lounge! #the math is probably really wrong here but i thought that if i poured love in for the sake of pouring love in #somehow somewhere along the line i would also receive love. that i would actually be a part of this community. #anyway that's not going to change how i live here! i committed myself to doing my best this last year #because i don't want anyone to feel left out or unwanted or lonely. i already made the decision #to do everything i can to love the people here. #i'm not trying to toot my horn this is just what i actually want to and have decided to do! #i have birthday cards planned! i have midterm snacks planned! #i've just worked out how i can print christmas and easter cards and stickers! #i'm GOING to love darn it all i'm GOING to pour love in #i think it hurts especially because there's the boy problem going on too #of not being wanted in an area that i DIDN'T expect to be wanted in #and then learning that there is a collective not being wanted in this whole community #it is a Lot and it is very hard and i don't know what to do with it! #i have had this lie (that i'm inherently unloveable and undesirable) in my head since childhood #and i've worked SO HARD to shut that voice up. and it is so so hard to not believe it right now

[queen-lance]

I just wanted to come home... I wanted to come home so bad.

Words by @electraheart2012

#my edits #richard rider #nova #marvel #marvel comics #marveledit #comicedit #gotgedit #queenlance post #aaaand I don't think I'll tag any big blog #this is the first edit I do after my year long posting hiatus and instead of focusing on erasing backgrounds - something I'm good at - #I decided to do this. I went through my edits tag and like my first 3 or 4 posts had no text and then I did two with text and was very happy #with them. AND THEN every single one after it has me complaining ''why is choosing fonts so hard'' #I will do another Rich edit later (I even have some PNGS!) maybe when I'm finally on my break #ANYWAYS. I just have too many thoughts about Rich and the idea of coming home and this popped out unplanned out of nowhere

[uncanny-tranny]

I have conflicting thoughts about the idea that in terms of danger with regards to being transphobic that cis men are the only demographic trans people ought to fear. On the one hand, I think that if we're talking about physical violence, cis men would be more likely to resort to such a response. But I don't think it's accurate to take that and then go, "so cis women are inherently safe (or safer)!"

Remember, transphobia isn't just physical violence, nor does it always manifest as such.

When I think about the people who were most vitriolicly transphobic, it wasn't just cis women or cis men - it was both. I think another added layer is that I'm a trans man, and so it's assumed that I should never feel in danger, nor should I expect to be taken seriously when I don't feel safe.

My point isn't to say that cis women are more dangerous than cis men. My point is that I notice a trend where people assume that transphobia is only cis men's problem to deal with and not a problem for all cis people to deal with. If you assume that only one "type" of cis person (that isn't in your group) must bear the brunt of fixing the transphobia issue, you will likely harbour your own transphobic beliefs or practices.

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #ally advice #transphobia #transphobia tw #like the book irreversible damage was one of the scariest books to come out in recent memory and the way it exploded... #...though it wasn't like that books just... came out of nowhere it was a long time coming #it's just... something i've noticed as an attitude for the past few years and i just don't think it's the *full* story

[mymarifae]

the theory that sans--the sans we meet in undertale--was originally from the world of deltarune is so fascinating to me. and plausible now, because we’ve all seen the unused sprites of susie bleeding from that little scrape on her hand (which is like. !??! that something that big was just left in the files, because toby knows what his fans are like. he knows we dig around in the code and shit. so he left those there... because he wanted us to see them. he wanted us to start realizing that the information we got in undertale doesn’t always hold up in deltarune’s world). and considering dialogue like, “everyone bleeds, right?”... it really does not seem like the monsters in deltarune are made of mostly magic and simply turn to dust when they die. and as we all know, sans apparently bleeds, and we never see him turn to dust. (honestly the only question i have irt this theory is how does a skeleton bleed but i don’t think the logistics of this particularly matter gnjkdngfdlkg)

it seems like the physiology of the monsters in deltarune more closely matches that of a human. and this doesn’t rule out the possibility of them being able to use magic, as we very obviously see undertale sans use, because we know the humans of undertale could use it, too. so it’s not a matter of physiology. it just seems like as the decades went by on the surface, humans lost touch with their innate magical abilities, while monsters maintained them because magic was the only thing that made underground living possible. or at least bearable. and i think in deltarune, because no one was ever sealed underground, both humans and monsters have lost touch with their magical abilities, and perhaps with enough focused practice, anyone could start using magic again, but since magic is passed off as mere fantasy, no one’s doing that (...except maybe catti and kris, as i’ve started thinking).

it just brings to mind some interesting things about sans. like... when he saw frisk for the first time, was he reminded of another quiet human child always clad in a striped sweater, who made a wonderful friend for his little brother? idk. *starts chewing on wires*

#i don't think it's like. deltarune sans and undertale sans switched places #i think it's more likely that sans and papyrus aren't exactly a universal constant #evidenced by the line 'they just showed up out of nowhere one day.' Something is up. in a lot of ways they're both so out of place #and i'm thinking about that one kid in the apartments that asks 'where do skeletons come from?' #i don't think that was necessarily a quirky line of dialogue just sprinkled in for fun. that was put there to get us to start Thinking #where DO skeletons come from. if humans are made of bones too. ......i want the rest of this game <3 i'm so curious i'm gonna explode

[findafight]

i agree w all of your r*nance thoughts. i also think a big issue for them would be nancy never being robin's Person bc of steve; i do not think that's something nancy could stomach. tho at this point, even if i had liked it originally, i would despise it bc of how often ppl have robin or nancy or both do absolutely sick and twisted things to steve. like the amount of fics where robin doesn't tell steve/actively lies to him about it for extended periods of time then he just has to be okay w it or they have robin just start putting nancy above steve in every aspect of life is ridiculous. then there's the really bad ones, like the fic i saw where the entire premise is r*nance fucking in steve's bed w/o his knowledge (and robin specifically doesn't feel bad at all which ???? like they have nancy feel bad but not robin? i will never understand) or the ficlet i saw where robin asks steve for sex advice then either 1) tells him it's nancy and he makes the advice specific (wtf) or 2) doesn't tell him but he figures it out later bc nancy thanks him since she realized the advice came from him (demonic). like what the actual fuck. sorry i had to complain about the things i've been forced to see against my will by tumblr.

so many things to complain about having seen on the hellsite. carry on fellow soldier 🫡

dsakjhfaksdhkf ya like. the concept of either of them starting to date someone they like and not immediately busting the other's door down like candace_momholyFUCK dot jpeg is just absurd to me. Robin would kiss a girl for the first time and as soon as she gets home she's dialing Steve up and twirling the phone cord around her fingers and kicking her legs, giggling. They were having boobie talk in the car at 7am. they def share if they actually get a date with someone they have a crush on!! (the exception being if that person didn't want to come out, like I could see Steve telling Robin he kissed a guy or had a boyfriend but not saying who because the bf wasn't ready for other people/people he didn't know well to know? but robin would still know he had a bf and details about what they do, just not personal details.)

I find it actually laughable that people would consider Robin would put some romantic interest above her most specialest boy in the whole wide world. Like. She was obsessed with him when she held her tammy and bagel crumb grudge and hated him! Now she loves him? Do people thing she isn't obsessed with him now?? Absolutely not she's worse and she steals his shirts to prove it.

Which I agree with you. Nancy obviously wants to be her romantic partner's priority and number 1. Jonathan's priority is his family and we saw in both s3 and s4 that this causes strain in their relationship! To the point they kinda break up in s3 about it! Robin and Steve both can no longer give that to their partners, because they have each other, scoops troop, and, by extension, the Party. Which is wild because s2 Nancy was Steve's priority.

idk whyyy people have Robin be mean to Steve :( stopppp that's her special little guy. her sweet cheese. her rotten soldier. She might say or do something that hurts him but she would try to apologize as soon as she realizes!! Just like he would for her! I think it might come from people still prioritizing romo ships over platonic ones and trying to have those be the most important and special and deep relationship the characters have.

lldkfjlakdflkajlfdj anon those are WILD fics wow. I think some are trying to acknowledge past st4ncy, but neglect all the hurt that happened at the end of that relationship, and that for the characters, in s4, Steve and Nancy broke up less than a year and a half ago! very messily and hurtfully! (once again, regardless of whether or not steve knows Nancy cheated) that is so short between the end of the relationship to be hooking up with your best friend's ex! that he has expressed romantic feelings for recently! or trying to emphasize robin and steve's weird little qpr comfortable in one another's space and oversharing relationship but missing the mark. like. it's one thing to sleep in a friend's bed with a different friend. it another to have sex in a friend's guest bedroom. it's another level to have sex in your friends bed? that's bonkers.wild.

I do think it'd be funny for Steve and Robin to exchange sex tips/stories but the first time i think Robin asks and Steve just blanks and goes "cut your nails. watch your teeth." which like. yeah. Robin figured. They're weirdos who live inside each other's pockets and brains but they probably do have some levels of comfort to work up to (they've been friends for less than a year! even if it feels like they've known each other forever)

(also. there is a weird thing sometimes where Nancy is closer to Steve/cares more openly about him than she would. I think it might be a bit of a backlash to people pointing out that she cheated on him in s2 and then seemed to not talk to him at all between then and s3 and again between s3 and s4? hmm...)

#anti ronance #stranger things #stobin #findaanswers #finda's rambles #anonasaurus #also I know people don't like clogging tags with stuff that only barely mentions the ship but i think it's also good for people muting/bloc #that tag. like i've read some cute stddie or stobin posts and then BAM surprise rnce! and im like oh :( #or like to specifically mention in tags #or have '[shipname] mentioned' or 'background [shipname] #just give me something so it doesn't come out of nowhere #steve harrington #robin buckley #nancy wheeler #fandom salt #i suppose that can be a tag idk #fandom wank

[discordiansamba]

revisiting this scene and just. remembering how when season 6 came out, people took what was like. extremely obviously a scene between Allura and Lance that was meant to further develop their relationship with one another... and took it and said "is this about k*ance? this is meant to be about k*ance, right?"

like. there's having no media literacy. and then there's whatever the hardcore k*ance shippers were on.

#like don't get me wrong. i don't like allura/lance as a ship either #i don't think it was ultimately well executed even if their episode together at the start of s8 WAS sweet #but it VERY MUCH did not come out of nowhere #it's just whenever they had a scene together the fandom acted like it was actually a k*ance scene instead or a hint at black paladin lance #instead of what you know. it very blatantly was #they were teasing this relationship since season 1 and y'all were still somehow blindsided by it

[mvshortcut]

hey. hey uh. just wondering what happened to all the children Curtain barged and brainswept. I'm assuming he didn't have a child services worker politely waiting at the dock for them. uh. where did they go.

#the mysterious benedict society #tmbs #ld curtain #sometimes in the Big Things that Curtain's done stuff like this gets overlooked #did the kids get dropped off at the orphanage? would he really waste the time? raise suspicion about where all these kids are coming from? #assuming one student gets barged a week from the leaderboard every Thursday. in all the years the Institute's been running. #that's a lot of kids. #did the kids just get left on the docks. left to wander around Stonetown with no memories and nowhere to go #also. the fact that unlike the books. not all/most of the kids at LIVE were orphans #Martina had parents #now granted the Whisperer's messages 'the missing aren't missing' probably discouraged them from looking for their kid #but like. did the parents ever wonder. after months of not hearing from their kid. #did they go into town one day for some shopping only for their child to stumble out of an alleyway #dirty and alone and scared and with a completely blank expression #and doesn't even blink twice at their own parents? not even a spark of recognition? #thinking about when the Emergency lifted and the Whisperer's messages stopped. #how many parents suddenly remembered their children have been missing #how many parents rushed to the Institute only to find out their child disappeared years ago? #'what happened to them?'not sure. only they never say goodbye to any of their friends before they leave #like they don't even recognize them at all. #how many parents kept searching. kept following that thread. found their child in an orphanage with no memory of how they'd gotten there #anyways. food for thought!

[boywithbear]

randomly thinking about how the anti "transandrophobia truthers" people never think trans men ever face misogyny, especially if they're out of the closet and can pass as a man, and i'm here masculine as hell and would pass to THEM but yet my voice gets me misgendered all the time, to the point during phone calls people will refuse to believe I am who I say I am because of the masculine name not matching up with the voice and so they always automatically assume I am my own sister or mother, and my own urogynecologist fully sees me as a woman despite my FULL BEARD and my bear of a body

like yeah totally i completely have all the same exact experiences and privileges as a cis man! /s

Edit: actually lol to make the point further, I am still here with the full beard and masculine attire and so I'm probably what they'd call "cishet passing" and yet when I go out, I am misgendered ALL the time now because of the combination of my voice, my long hair, and wearing a mask that covers up a good bit of my face. I'm misgendered more than I'm gendered correctly, actually. Like really blows my mind bc I will see these ppl call ppl they dont even KNOW irl "cishet passing" based on seeing pictures of them when that doesn't = reality and also that's a fucking gross ass term.

#think they just love their radfem rhetoric so much they'll do anything to ignore how complex the real life world actually is #like we are allowed to have a term for the specific experiences we go through as transmascs/trans men #and half of it is because THEY'RE the ones who want to equate it to transmisogyny and make it a competition and then blame that on US #like no YOU did that #sure some trans men who speak on transandrophobia can be transmisogynistic. EVERYONE CAN BE. what does that have to do with the term itself #the term is about OUR unique experiences. which yes we DO have and you all just love to ignore it #and there's exorsexism/enbyphobia for nonbinary people. where's your problem with that? #or do you ONLY have a problem when it comes to trans men because men bad and woman good. wonder who started that notion. huh. #and when there have been so many trans women too who have spoke about how that shit harms them too but yall don't actually care #because your hatred for men is greater than your love for women actually and it's sad. rant OVER. #transandrophobia #transphobia #z #literally with this out of nowhere bc caffeinated and also phone went to shit again so not on here much again but was having Thoughts

[karma-creations]

why is my dash full of qsmp omegaverse

#don't get me wrong i love abo #but when it's suddenly There on my dash #it just fucking. comes out of nowhere and bitchslaps me across the face #qsmp