#and dont even get me started on the overworld

[metfell]

yess would love to hear ur older Michael thoughts :]

to me michael grows up to be someone who is obsessed with exploring. i think being brought up in a very isolated corner of the smp with very overprotective parents would leave him in a place of wanting to know about the world but being afraid to actually step foot out into it.

i think he gets into cartography. the nether is a very confusing place to navigate and compasses dont work, so i reckon having a way to actually orient yourself in the overworld would be something he would enjoy and want to engage in more. he makes maps of the server, finds old maps from different eras, and preserves the maps found in the rubble of the old museum.

i actually headcanon him as straight and asexual. i think as he fully matures he gets ridiculously good with riptide tridents, not only because of his love of the outdoors but also because his trident doubles as a walking stick.

he never learns ender because i dont think ranboo would even know the beginnings of how to teach it to someone else, but hes fluent in both common and piglin after he starts exploring the nether.

he lives in a small house near where the community house was, a bit to the left of eret's castle down past the courthouse, on a river. he does a lot of fishing in his free time. he's not much for snow, as its way too cold for someone meant for the nether.

i think hes a bit distant with his parents, but still friendly enough with them to have a good time. tubbo and michael spend time working on his maps, with tubbo telling him stories about the server as if it were through rose-tinted lenses and brushing aside the severity of some of the conflicts as tubbo tends to do. with ranboo, michael and him mainly make conversation while he's out exploring, with the two mainly discussing whatever it is theyre currently doing at the moment. ranboo is the type to really want to connect with michael, but because he wasnt there a lot when michael was young, he doesnt really know how to, but the two of them are both giving a really honest effort.

he gets along decently well with tommy, and tommy made a special knit hat for him that covers the exposed skull half of his face. i actually imagine him going through a phase where he tries to cover up and hide the skull side of his face as much as possible, probably when he starts trying to explore the nether more. by the time he's like 21 though, hes a lot better about owning the zombie half, and has one of the piglins he meets in the nether carve "tattoos" into the bone. tubbo thinks it looks cool as shit.

#ask #beeduo posting #<- for archiving

[blueskyheadleft010]

I finally finished a Duviri mission after like, completing 60 extra side objectives like a madwoman; and can I just say that despite the coolness of endlessly stacking abilities ontop of one another, the mapping is horseshit???

Firstly, overworld items and side quests don’t appear as icons on the map (like they do in the rest of the Warframe type missions/overworlds). Which is shitty because it forces you to run around endlessly until you find whatever the fuck is making noise or shining in the corner of your vision.

Also the map overlay in the top left is (intentionally??) blurry as hell and is nearly the same shade of color for every building. Which is ugly and also makes me feel like the map isn’t loading in properly. Like wtf??

The mini games are fun tho. Strange, but fun. Only complaint is some start the moment you get close to them, which should instead be optional when I’m trying to do something else at the moment.

Last thing, that really really irks me; unlike the origin system’s gameplay of mapping the main objectives/object you need to interact with, the Duviri missions only highlight locations you need to reach for the main mission, but DOES NOT highlight objects you need to interact with (not counting chests. They show up fine for some reason), making it a living hell for newbies trying to take down the emotional Orwyrm of the hour, and pissing me off by trying to chase the damn thing all over the map and not once telling me the sequence of events I need to do to kill the dragon. (You have to wait until the last second to strike the flying orb, which gives your horse a massive flight speed boost, then you throw your frisbee weapon at the Orwyrm to latch onto its side, akin to a Void Sling ability in the main game, THEN you can reach its head to pilot the thing).

Nowhere is this freaking explained. Not even Teshin helps you until you latch onto the dragon.

I. Hate. This. Lack. Of. Gameplay. Assistance.

Also, if DE wants to keep an engaged audience for that portion of the game, PLEASE LIMIT THE NUMBER OF ROUNDS TO THREE OR MAKE DIFFICULTY LEVELS LIKE EVERY OTHER MISSION IN WARFRAME. I DONT WISH TO PLAY A SINGLE MISSION FOR OVER AN HOUR AT A TIME.

This has been my Ted Talk about Duviri. Thanks for stopping by.

#warframe #warframe duviri #Warframe game rant #DE please fix your Duviri gameplay #i’m begging you #ted talks #sky rambles #it late #shut up sky

[winter-horse]

reworked the moorland house. mc is staying in there as i imagined when i started sso, i imagined those house extension parts have guestrooms.

i had to reorganise the positions of things since it wouldnt make sense to have front doors be sideways from this angle, and if i had put the stable below where the house is to keep that relation, then the stable wouldve been seen from the back. it just didnt seem like a good idea so this is how it is for now.

the grass textures are still wip bc i dunno what i want.

i think there wont be any shops in moorland (shops probably dont serve a purpose in this game, but i mean visually existing shops). it makes more sense that its just a stable with summer camp activities and riding lessons, while silverglade village and fort pinta have a few shops.

to be fair, i could prob implement a dressup doll screen just for fun in shops, but it would be hard to actually let you dress up the character's overworld sprite (i do have skintone options though). its also hard to manage money, not in the sense of keeping a variable, but in the sense of coding custom menu screens where the player can see their money and inventory and so on. in other engines its not hard to just display stuff, or to add customisability, but here it is. so i think the game's options will be pretty limited - you get to pick from a few preset horses and your character's skintone, and im trying to code a naming screen so you can have a name, but even that's a lot of work here (no string variables, no typing, etc). makes me appreciate how much work went into letting us name all of our pokemon.

#sso gameboy demake #fanart #fangame #star stable online

[whynotsableye]

BG3 OC (tagged by @illithidactivities, thanks for the inclusion!)

Name: Nia Liadan Valar (Pronounced Naya Lee-din vah-lar)

Nickname: Nia doesnt really do nicknames but she has grown quite fond of hearing the word "soldier" come out of a certain tiefling.

Pronouns: She/her

Star Sign: I've never put much thought into this, i havent even given her a birthdate lol

Height: she is 5'9" (about 175 cm)

Orientation: Lesbian

Race: Half-Drow, Half-human

Romancing: Karlach

Class: Spore Druid

Fave Fruit: Strawberries. Strawberries were one of the first fruits she tried in her first trip out of the underdark and they've been a favorite ever since, her magically produced good berries taste of strawberry as well

Favorite Season: Despite the fact that her favorite fruit blooms in the spring and is ripe at the end of spring or beginning of summer, her favorite season is the end of fall/Autumn, into the beginning of winter- right around the first real snowfall. The seasons changing reminds her of the ideals she holds as a druid.

Favorite Flower: If pressed she would say her favorite flower is lily of the valley, but at heart she would much rather have a culture of fire lichen or glow lichen

Fave Scent: Cinnamon, fresh bread, the ozone/plasma that builds on the wind before a storm, and fresh ground coffee. (and Karlach who she thinks smells like a campfire and cinnamon bundled together)

Coffee/Tea/Hot-chocolate? Almost always the answer is coffee, with a bit of cream, but she loves Tea- especially if there are natural additives she can find nearby. if she drinks hot chocolate at all it is almost always darker than most would prefer, with a stick of cinnamon.

Average sleep hours? 7-9 depending on if she is taking watch at camp or not. She likes to sleep, but if shes disturbed in the night its hard for her to go back to sleep which can easily make the odd night turn into 4 hours of sleep and 2 hours of laying in bed angry before making a pot of coffee and accepting she will just be moody the whole day

Dogs or Cats? Dogs! She loves dogs, and Scratch is the bestest boy in all the realms. she likes cats too. she herself hasnt kept many pets only the odd animal that would travel with her for a bit while she adventured (usually a wolf in the overworld, or a spider or rothe in the underdark, but these animals usually went on their own way after a time)

Dream Trip: Before the beginning of the game this answer wouldve been "travel the world" but after she started dating Karlach her dream trip is simply to take Karlach to her home grove and introduce her to the people that raised her and show Karlach the wild joys of the underdark.

Amount of Blankets: one- she doesnt get cold very easily (especially when sleeping with someone else) but when shes stressed she does want a heavier blanket or extra cuddling to calm down.

Fun Facts:

If you asked her about her parents, Nia would tell you she THINKS she has about 72 moms- this is because all the women in her grove that are mothers are mothers to all the children in that grove.

bonus fact from the first one, she didnt know the word Father until she was about 7 because she didnt have one and the men in the grove only parent their children and are instead more like uncles to the other children.

And lastly she has a real soft-spot for kids, and gladly wouldve taken every orphan tiefling from the druid grove in act 1 to her own grove.

I dont know everyone who has BG3 but if you follow me-especially if we are mutuals- and you have BG3 consider yourself tagged!

#bg3 #bg3 tav #bg3 oc

[narwhalandchill]

(4.6 beta changes) (again) (guys this is so long im just. many thoughts and me thinking out loud abt arle and my pulling plans. & other nonsense etc. my bad)

ooookay so yeah def glad i didnt jump the gun and attempt some sorta "is this a buff or not" feelscrafting nonsense on arles adjustments jkwjkwdjkwdjkwdkjjk and waited for TC (mostly zajef lmao) analysis and opinion on the real changes that ended up happening

anyway so like. it appears to be an universal buff for her p much? but how big of a buff it ends up being depends on some mechanics we still dont have a definite answer as to how they function (mostly how her BoL stacking from E works during the ECAQECA reset thing, if it enables 140% total stacking = massive dmg buff overall)

firstly my fears of her becoming too ult dependent for overworld appear to be? not as bad as i thought? so thats nice at least very pog like if she can do her thing decently enough just for fun running around thats very good

secondly. the ER situation is literally on a 50-50 😭 because its all about whether she has particle ICD on her E. if she doesnt, thats actually like. 0 ER needed or at the very least incredibly little of it. if there is particle ICD. well. thats going to be another story

the way her rotations have changed now seem to gear her towards overload teams with chevy? since they have very long rotations and characters like fischl and yae can have full uptime over those whereas vape teams lose hydro application from yelan or XQ and buff uptime from characters like bennett over time when a rotation stretches past 24s

like from what ive been reading it seems to be a pretty common sentiment that these buffs will make the biggest impact in chevy overload teams specifically (even tho shes obvi buffed just in general in all teams) for that reason and that chevy teams Especially w her at c6 with arle should be the best bennettless teams ultimately. which is definitely an interesting turn ?

(and this isnt all of the changes btw im just talking abt the ones that matter most for my considerations rn)

anyway. my thoughts then.

so im obviously glad the changes turned out to be buffs so far. but. theres still stuff im a bit. ehhhhhhhh on

firstly the survivability situation (which in turn leads back to the teambuilding issues). bc her self heal did get nerfed. so arles no longer going to be able to risk taking very high dmg during a rotation and dragging herself back to full once the next one starts. which to me feels like an emphasis on dmg mitigation for her and shielding.

(not to even get started on the. spam NAs to reduce her now 30s E cooldown so its up in time for the next rotation meaning you Do Not want to be staggered and tossed out of her attack string. and gee would you look at that! neuvillette level interruption res on c1 now! great!!)

(like again. to be clear. its hard to say exactly how much interruptions to her NA spam will end up fucking her over. i could just be overtly wary about how bad it might feel. but at its worst. with enemies that run away from u or go invincible. or stunlock you. the fact that it will at least heavily risk arles ability to reduce her E cooldown the amount she needs for fluid rotations. could definitely end up feeling like shit to play in practice without that interruption resistance. be it from c1 or a shied)

but then if we go back to her synergies and look at. those more interesting (imo) chevy teams that should perform well even without bennett. like arle/chevy/fischl/yae. whos keeping ur arle from dying there 😭 its giving lyney spreadsheet impact vs actual reality trying to play him without a shield 😭😭 guess we know who he got it from...

and yea could replace yae for beidou for damage reduction but her dmg will TANK in single target. as a whole. defensive options list in pyro/electro units only just isnt that good. beidous the one who tanks team dps the least as long as ur in AoE, but outside of that its just. thoma and dehya. and they will 100% tank the team dps

whereas defensive options like zhongli to me feel like they will just end up w her teams just wanting to lean towards that. traditional vape and mono pyro angle. bennett and kazuha and yelan/XQ. the usual stuff. and shes not getting benny and kazuha from childe so we have an issue 💀💀

unironically i will prolly be looking for some double geo zhongli/chiori/yelan vape team calcs for arlecchino (hope someone makes them. all double geo team calcs ive seen so far assume bennett 😭) just out of curiosity in terms of. how much worse it is than her best teams. bc if i can just slap her in that setup its a big bonus to how flexibly i could use her but eh. prolly will end up weaker than any chiorinavia nation core i could play so who knows

but. all this yapping and im only now getting to the point JSWJKDWJKWDJK so. heres the BIG problem

i dont have a single fucking chevrolet 💀 but i do have like 38 pity on a guarantee.

and like people are suggesting that maybe chevy will be on arles banner and fair, especially with these new beta changes incentivizing arle chevy teams way more than before, it would definitely make sense for hoyo to put chevy with her. and i definitely am overall a fan of this possible chevy overload team direction for arle (anything thats not bennett for father. ANYTHING) so id love for that to be the case

but. thats not guaranteed at all. and the same sentiment i had over arlecchinos hypothetical best support in the form of the pyro archon (or honestly. with the lack of electro shielders for chevy teams even clorinde could end up being that missing piece) where id almost rather wait to guarantee that synergistic unit before getting arle herself on a rerun. actually applies to chevy here too. even just a c0 one

and like. yes. if i spend that guarantee now on c2 chiori. and it turns out chevy is indeed featured with arlecchino. i will Not be able to guarantee her anymore - ill get one 50-50 and all the chances for a few solid chevy copies on the way but thats it.

however. the other scenario here is that arle does NOT get chevy. she gets fucking. kaveh noelle mika. and then chevy is going to rerun with like. idk. random banner. clorinde who may or may not have synergy with arle

...and im not really sure if id even want to pick arle up on that guarantee from that sort of banner SJKDKJADJKDJK but ok id skip her. buuut im still sitting on a guarantee i might not want to use on a character i feel just eh abt. but who might be with chevy (and like. i do pull for 4* when im on a 50-50 and low pity, idm the early. so as long as thats the case i can see myself tossing a few pulls at Any chevy banner in the future).

... which brings us back to. okay yeah saving the guarantee for clorinde IF chevy isnt with arle and IF shes an electro shielder sub dps support for those arle chevy teams. and getting arle on rerun as ive considered. doesnt sound that bad. but clorinde might also Not be that. uncertainty uncertainty.

like im fairly sure clorinde Will be an unit i wont mind pulling at 17 pity xianyun style on a 50-50 no matter what. but if shes not that mythical arle BiS support she prolly wont be worth that guarantee is my whole complex here lmao

whereas. c2 chiori. isnt an uncertain factor here. like im investing in her im getting her c6 eventually, c2 is like almost 25% personal dps increase (also my husk pieces LOVE rolling ER so itd actually be useful) it feels like the "safe" option in a sense ya know???

like. yes id leave arlecchino up to a coin toss . (Jail for jen!! fake lesbian!!!) but id also be left with the option of skipping her banner (if no chevy rateup to be clear) in favor of seeing whether she gains any synergistic units in the future and seeing how the various aspects of her kit that i do somewhat worry about end up panning out ?? and i think. id be fine with that ? Over the alternative

ultimately tho. im super happy arle got overall buffed and that at least some of my fears abt her kit changes were indeed unfounded, but some concerns still remain. its kinda wild and still sad to me that she went from an absolute 100% must pull character just bc its Her to like. curse of pyro on fielder idk if i Need this right now 😔😔 but i Will be getting her eventually!! no matter what

anyway have a sticker if u stuck around for all of my bullshit. this is literally just arle buff thoughts into gacha pulls stream of consciousness rambling 😭😭😭

#pov ur watching me talk myself into ripping the bandaid off and just getting that goddamn c2 chiori WDJKDWJKWDKJWDJ #already went the way to the 50-50 for it like we might as well commit to my girl #arles beta is crazy tho like. i havent seen changes this massive to a kit since the yae and ayato days of yore 😭😭 #v1 ayato yoimiya dual dps team ThoseWhoKnow LMAOOOOO #prayge for the particle ICD everyone. if she doesnt need ER. my cope zhongli chiori arle yelan vape idea. might actually work out okay #bc i can keep yelan on elegy for buffs and not just favge #aaaanyway. what a wild ride #manifesting the chevy on arle banner SO hard btw. even if i end up losing 50-50 there for arle in the end. it will be worth if i get chevy #genshin #rambles #long post

[sinisterscientist]

i haaaaaate that the only way to get froglights is to have a frog eat a magma cube it's so obvious that they were originally going to be from frogs eating fireflies and you'd be able to just walk thru a swamp and pick them up with the added challenge of needing to bring the other frog types to the swamp or bring fireflies to the other frog types to get the other types of lights but now you have to bring a frog all the way into the nether, find magma cubes, (that mostly spawn in a area with lots of uneven terrain and lava pits for your hard earned frog to fall in and die!! and don't even get me started on how annoying frog breeding is.) keep your frog nearby and hope it doesn't die while you attack them until they're small enough for your frog to eat, collect a few and keep doing this only to get a handful of froglights and then if you dont want to just leave your frog in the nether you have to take it back to the overworld without getting it killed and then you'd have to repeat this process multiple times to get the other froglights!! it's just so infuriatingly long and complex to get a fun little block that was supposed to be fun. every day I hope that person who told Mojang that fireflies are poisonous to frogs is having the worst day ever. GOD.

#Minecraft #w

[thegeminisage]

sneaking in a bit of zelda!! i wanted to explore the coliseum (overworld version) today but im not sure if my armor can stand up to the gleeok in there lol

last night btw i finally turned in the last of my korok seeds - my inventory is completely expanded, and i have collected a total of 664 seeds. 236 to go.........

im thinking about switching back to the old bike. the new one makes sharper turns but i have a harder time controlling it, especially if im carrying something. the old one lists to the side a little bit but i barely notice anymore as ive learned to compensate...

i wish you could sell sleepover ticket. i almost never use the stables and when i do i wanna pay for them so i can get points. i usually have tons of rupees so they dnt really save me money i desperately need...after early game theyre completely useless. i'll never use all the ones i have saved up at this point

farosh was going one way a second ago and is now going the other way?? girl whats up

evil korok seed. you have to dive into a ring of lilies but the place you have to dive from is a place that link sort of automatically jumps over when you try to step there. smh

ok. im at the coliseum. without a doubt i am gonna get my ass kicked bc my lightning armor sucks ass. i have a potion i can drink and wear normal armor for the first bit of the fight but after it runs out i have to wear shit armor and cross my fingers :/

it could have been a lynel. they could have put a lynel here. it would've been fine.

on the other hand, i guess i'm lucky it's not hands.

ok. best gear. potion ready. here i go

ok, first 3/4 down REALLY easily. still plenty of time left on my potion, but the armor is superior bc the shocks still make me flinch without it. unfortunately this mf is now in the air and idk how to get up after it. ascend??

there has to be a better way, this is so much ascending, what do i do for thunder gleeoks not in the coliseum??

KEESE! WING! ARROWS!

i got all the way to the top and still couldn't get to it, so i improvised lol. i saw that wind gusts started but by then it was too late!! im so pleased

truly incredible. i beat it in under 3 minutes without electric armor! i can't believe the one on hylia bridge killed me so many times. i really have leveled up

maybe i should fight the ice gleeok in hebra...thats the last stable quest i need...

armor sitch is gonna be worse for this though. even with cold resistance, some of my defense is gonna be taken up by my having to wear these fucking snow boots (or i have to be slow during the fight...)

man i hate cold regions in these games. this is making me nervous

AAAAA it saw me so soon!!!!

omg lol it's blowing snowballs at me

DEFFOOO not doing as much dmg to this guy as the lightning one...i had zora weapons for that, so they all got powered up when wet, but i cant use ice attack food here bc im using my food to PROTECT myself from the cold

also, bc im in snow boots, i dont get the atk up bonus from the oot link armor :| fuck it, im barely moving, ill take them off next time it drops

up it goes...now what

i found shelter to protect me from the big attack but idk how to get up there 😭 wheres the WIND

OH MY GOD WAIT...OH MY GOD

oh thats so FUCKING cool

recall and ride the icicles up!!!!!!! AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!! i think i love fighting gleeoks now?!

now to find that damn horse

found it. got kicked in the face before i could mount, bc riju was in my fucking way. disabling sages 😔

got it! i thought this horse was supposed to be a yiga or something? am i riding a couple of yigas in furry suits?

awwww my bestie is sad to be retiring from the news business :(

i guess it is a real horse lol. maybe i got fake spoiled with some wack fanart

I HATE NAMING HORSES...it's so much pressure 😭

googled some named and went with aurum (something made of gold). thanks internet

time to go get my last paycheck!!!

FROG ARMOR COMPLETE!

awww my bestie's not here...do we not get to see him anymore after this...? what a bummer

ok, i have to quit for now!! maybe next time ill kill more gleeoks lol

#personal #loz blogging #totk lb #totk spoilers

[olberic]

ok. so. thinking abt octopath ii nonstop. im really vibing w the characters so far so really limited thoughts on them, if only to come back and see this post again once ive played it! also listing in the main trailer order bc thats easiest for me to remember. as if i dont have them memorized

hikari:

hes a warrior but hes also a PRINCEEEEE

again not a slight on olberic (bc he’s my favourite OBVIOUSLY) but i love that his attacks have different names than his

very excited that it seems like hes gonna take a “for the sake of friendship and fallen comrades” approach to his theme rather than a bland “my home country == good” approach

agnea:

i really like that she’s a different type of dancer than primrose, rather than reuse the sex appeal that primrose used. not that its a slight on primrose (one of my faves!) but dancer does tend to have that association to it

her overworld animations have so much extra flavour to them… the way she walks…

it seems like her town supports her 🥹

partitio:

helloOOOO SOUTHERN CHARACTER IN A JRPG

honestly. i just like that he seems honest. love a good honest merchant theyre so rare

osvald:

idk abt his design but ough. im always a sucker for a revenge plot. even if it involves a dead wife and child i dont care. i wanna feel osvald’s rage i wanna take my time fighting whoever did that to him.

i feel like hes gonna be one of my fave stories but im not sure if he’ll be one of my favourite characters. does that make sense.

mage character wanting to kill someone with their own hands YES!!!!! YES!!!!!!

throné:

girl im gonna love your story. i know i am

her bloody history even though shes a thief???

SO curious about the “mother” character. i need to know this backstory

temenos:

prettyboy cleric character…. i feel like theyd either make him honest and innocent or tastefully corrupt and given how innocent ophilia was i feel like theyre gonna swerve and make him a little rowdy. and if thats the case im gonna be obsessed

no thoughts on his backstory. just wanna see what they do with him

ochette:

shes like a foxgirl or something and im OBSESSED with those implications

not as hyped about her whole “hunting prize meats” storyline but im really hoping they give us some sort of twist on that

rn she’s feeling like tressa in that theres no motivation besides “doing better than what they have at the start” so. begging for some spare backstory 🤲

castti:

honestly? i want to play as her so bad

i love everything about her. missing memories. seems like she was shipwrecked and only managed to save a kid. whats gonna happen to that kid? does she get rescued by respectable ppl or pirates? is she gonna be ocean based? i dont know but im dying to find out

other thoughts on the trailers and the rest of the game:

INTERTWINING PATHS??????? IS THE ORDER I TAKE GONNA MATTER???? SQUARE ENIX. IM GOING TO PLAY THIS GAME A MILLION TIMES. YOU UNDERESTIMATE MY DESIRE FOR MORE OCTOPATH

AND!!!! ARE THE CHARACTERS GONNA ACTUALLY INTERACT IN THEIR RESPECTIVE CHAPTERS AND NOT JUST IN SKITS!!!!!!!!!

the graphics and depth of field!!! the way the beasts move in ochette’s section of the trailer!!! the day/night settings!!!

THE SPRITES ARE BIGGER SO THERE’LL BE MORE CHARACTER DETAILS THAN THE FIRST ONE

NEED to know about the job system. are the job combos gonna be the same (like will i make hikari an apothecary and agnea a scholer the way i picked olberic’s and primrose’ jobs for synergy?) or are they gonna change it up a little

for that matter are the gods going to be the same? what about the ultimate jobs? am i gonna get starseer temenos?

the collector’s edition confirmed theres gonna be eight different transitions into boss themes so im fucking losing my mind at that alone

the art book’s gonna have more maps!!!!!!!

the release date being feb (2nd month/2nd game) and specifically 2.24 (2+2+4=8) (24 as 2x4=8)

obviously. the names spell out octopath

#t #octopath ii #not overtagging this bc its for meeeeee rather than the main tag #im gonna find this post after i play the game and reblog w how these predictions/expectations turned out

[lifeintheworldtocome]

Looks at you with my Big ol curious eyes. So. tell me about your OC (<- hands are on my chin as i kick my feet) ^_^

omg! kicks my feet twirls my hair around my finger giggles

i am inserting this like five minutes through typing this you 100% dont have to read all of this because it is VERY longwinded and probably difficult to understand sory 🌟

so basically their name is ara she uses they/she and all neos etc etc 19 ish years old i have not completely locked that down BUT!! she basically lives in a fantasy type world and its like. semi set in a minecraft roleplay because i am #cringe. so she is half enderman half human and is like. enderian royalty maybe? unclear. so she gets banished 2 thr overworld which seems to be a theme in my stories??? and xe has a husband named robyn who has so much tboy swag (they r t4t). so she came to the overworld meets robyn he takes them in they fall in love etc etc romance she meets a couple of her best friends , carrie (sister to micheal put a pin in the latter) and kevin because i cannot come up with a name that is not the whitest thing ever for the life of me

and at this point the people on this server type thing (minecraft roleplay i have so much for irl ara but i am NOT getting into that rn) are creating kingdoms and shit (i Cannot remember for the life of me wtf the kingdom ara is living in joins whaever. starts with an m) and theyre deciding rulers and shit. so this guy micheal (remember him?) who is actually my oldest oc hes been a thing since i was like 10 years old. but he becomes the ruler of m name kingdom and the queen/king 2.0 is named damien, hes micheals husband. 

so micheal rules for a few years, and eventually damien is like girl when is it my turn 😐 so it turns into a whole argument that ends in damien killing micheal and actually whoops! he planned 2 do that so a bunch of fireworks are set off and theres this super cinematic and also disturbing scene where damien is holding micheals severed head up to the kingdom on a balcony while theres fireworks going off all around them and i have definitely tried to draw it at somepoint. so damien is banking on everyone being asleep during this time because oooo i need to be super showy about killing my hisband but also I Will Get Arrested but! ara was awake because Of Course they were. 

so damien gets control over the kingdom for like. 2 months. and then ara goes to Somebody (no idea who. the cops because she is a bootlicker at first i guess) and damien catches wind of it So he sneaks into aras house and kills her 🥰 but at this point hys already given testimony and Uh Oh! damien gets banished to The Pit which is exactly what it sounds like and now ara is a ghost. wooooo!

so now both micheal and ara are ghosts and robyn (remember that guy ⁉️) is like. in denial about and simultaneously super resentful of aras death because Everyone can see ghost ara except robyn because He Was The One Who Loved Her Most (carrie cant see micheal also but deals with it by having someone around who can tell her what micheals saying but robyns too busy greiving in a super unhealthy way to do that) and ghost aras sad about it

so then eventually ghost micheal goes to visit damien because hes like damn i still am in love with that guy. fucked up. so he goes to see him and i just realized i have said the word so way too many times in this post. whatever. ghost micheal goes to visit damien and damien sees him and is like God Fucking Damn It Youre Supposed To Be Dead. so he tries to kill ghost micheal with his bare hands because hes gone a little crazy in the pit because he has nobody to talk to or whatever. and in defending himself ghost micheal accidentally kills damien so now hes a ghost!!!!!!

and i have not figured out anything past there but theres definitely more. should probably have written all this down at somepoint sooner i have this all stored In My Brain but also even if i could remember the rest this is way too long already and ive been writing this for like half an hour 

#asks #apileofmoss #SORRY THIS IS SO LONG I HAVE NO SELF CONTROL!!!!! I ADD IN A LOT OF FILLER ALSO #oc tag

[hearthomelesbian]

totk spoilers

man... i just finished my first labyrinth and the reward was such a letdown... i get that lots of ppl have played heaps of other zelda games but there are a Lot of ppl who started w botw, me included, up until a couple of months ago i hadnt played any other zelda games and even now ive only played sksw and started oot so like. why are SO MANY outfits references to old games. i dont even mind That much when theyre just chests in the overworld even if it is kind of annoying to have so many chests be armor pieces i dont care about but. as a prize for a labyrinth?? such a letdown, i was so excited when they said it was armor and then it was yet another piece of stuff that was in the botw dlc 😞

and like. they literally put new armor sets in the game!!! so why are the prizes for something as big as the labyrinths not one of the 2 depths related sets!!! literally the glowing set would have been perfect for it. also if theyre so worried abt alienating ppl who started w totk (WHICH IS A DIRECT SEQUEL) that they removed any and all traces of guardians and ancient sheikah tech including the horse gear (rip you will be missed!!!) then why are they putting in armor that references every other zelda game under the sun. when its weapons i dont mind bc its just a fun looking uneroded sword (sky sword, ancient deity sword, dusk sword(?) etc.) but the armor is always so specifically like. a character from a game ive never played which just clutters my already huge armor inventory. also another minor qualm why is my champions tunic all the way at the bottom. killing me

also i get that its to promote cave exploration but. i want armor back as shrine rewards 😞 the shrine rewards are always like. heres a gemstone! heres a zonai charge! heres an elixir! i miss armor rewards

#kinda ranty 😞 i am loving this game so far!! this is basically my only qualm but like. its driving me crazy #elliot lore

[masonsystem]

super long post of me complaining abt totk irt to my totk playthru bc I <3 Complaining ❤️❤️

maybe its cuz i played like a fuckton during the first week (tho i only have 65 hours total so idk how that compares to the average playerbase) or maybe its cuz ive been playing in an unconventional way, but totk is starting to feel boring to me... (or maybe the game design just sucks..?)

i play unconventionally in that i have disregarded the plot.. bc in botw it was so boring to me. and i watched all the totk cutscenes online anyways and it was as i suspected, i wouldve been disappointed and annoyed if i wasted time collecting all those memories just to get some half-baked story.

im on the fence for doing dungeons tho.. i see my sister doing one, and it does actually look kinda fun, but i worry how satisfying it will actually be, and if i finish the dungeon's boss, will this game's final boss(es) be too easy? (thats what happened in botw.. but maybe ill just do the dungeon and skip the boss? if i can do that?)

i did do the beginning of the gerudo main questline, and it was rly.. boring.... fighting the gibdos was rly boring.. i guess figuring out that mirror puzzle with little help was fun. but it was overall pretty (._.) have yet to enter the dungeon. again idk if i want to

but also another thing is that like its rly rly Really hard for me to gaf abt any npcs in this game LOL.. they just like. say a whole bunch of nothings..... bc like in older games, dialogue helps w worldbuilding since theyre so technologically limited. but in a game like this, you see the world that you get. theres not much that their dialogue adds on, and its only sometimes funny anyways. and i always find myself mashing thru it anyways, bc i just.. dont care.. and also, even if they are saying something supplemental to the world, a useful tip or whatever, its 1.) a teeny tiny tip that i probably could or wouldve learned online or 2.) a mini questline with the most eh reward ever.

i guess cuz in older games you Had to talk to people to figure out what to do next. theres no 'what to do next' in this game so i just.. yeah. im just often unmotivated to know what theyve got to say. of course theyve helped me here and there but its like.. in most games i play, i try to talk to as many npcs i can. but i never feel the need to do this in totk, from either how uninteresting they are, or bc the info they tell me tends to be something i already know.

and my apathy of npcs unfortunately extend to the main quest as well (gorons rito etc), and although i say i wish this game gave me more reasons to talk to npcs, i still end up disliking how totk/botw goes around w it in their main quests; cuz now theres like, a break in the gameplay, where i Must speak to NPCs to advance the 'plot'. my gameplay of exploration, engaging in combat whenever i please, and so on, has to be paused to do this quest. and arguably these quests do provide me the opportunity to explore and whatnot, but its no longer done by Myyyy pace. i have to follow whatever pace and order the game has set for me to do. which Sucks. it really sucks to have a game which im enjoying bc of the freedom, to restrict my freedom like that.

(and this is also why i disliked shrines in the first game.... my regular gameplay gets broken up in order for me to enter shrines (which all look the absolute same as every other one btw, so theres no motivator of 'ohhh i wonder what this shrine looks like?'). and i have to solve the shrine in whatever way its making me to. and obvs some shrines have multiple solutions but more often than not it tends to be limiting.... anyways this is why i deeply prefer shrine quests in the overworld over basic shrines. i much prefer solving puzzles as im exploring as opposed to having to essentially pause my gameplay just to earn hearts and stamina.

in terms of exploration + combat (bc the two go hand in hand).. after getting all the towers, i feel that theres little left for me to do. now that i have a decent amount of hearts and stamina (8 hearts + 1.75 stamina wheels), theres nothing tht really motivates me to do more shrines. the shrines in this game are a lot better than botw's (most of the time), but once ive lost the desire to do shrines as well its a bit.. (._.)

and ive explored most of the west side of the depths, i think roughly 30% overall, but that has gotten a bit boring as well. which is a shame, bc i think its a lot of fun to explore in pitch-black terrain. but as ive said before, it visually stays the same throughout the entire terrain which ends up making it feel very monotonous. same ol grey and purples forever and ever... i wish there was a variety of biomes and landscapes or something (itd be nice if the east looks drastically different but i sincerely doubt it). so far its just grey stretches of land and monster mine camps and maybe the occasional flux construct boss like :/

and combat... ergh... EH.... well just like botw its a blast in the beginning when everything is still hard. but like... all my weapons are pushing 40 atk power now. im like. Ripped. the monsters.. do not reflect this. like firstly u still get those annoying one hit monsters like chuchus, keese, and bokoblins. which is whatever i guess.. annoying but theyre there to spice it up. so whateves. but its when the monster camps still have red monsters like.. what?! even having blue monsters is pushing it honestly. the red ones dies in one hit, and the blues dies in 2-3 hits. black ones are starting to catch up in this regard, but are still a challenge. but there just isnt enough silver ones which ideally should be spawning at this point...

its come to a point where i just end up ignoring most monster camps, bc the reward drops just aren't very good either. like i do not explore in a conventional order, so im already stacked with royal gear. i do not need traveller sword #5. and the game has not adapted with that. i wish it did, bc man the game is getting boring 😮‍💨

there is more to say. maybe ill be more coherent after i get off my bed LOL. but yeah totk still has the same issues as totk which is... erm. not great

[ajdrawshq]

3, 9, 23 :D

u know u did smth right when i have to re-look up how to do readmores on mobile for an ask cksbxjsbn

3 - 1-3 games you've played in the past 12 months that you really enjoyed

Omori, Radiant Historia, and Octopath Traveler (in that order)!! and probably several more that im currently forgetting bc the last few months felt like years. i saw Omori on game pass n since i remembered seeing the occasional post abt it i decided to try it out and man!!!! good fucking game!!!!! i dont talk abt it often bc theres very little i can say abt it that hasnt already been said, but it means a lot to me - both the games messages and the world n characters. i even got some new mutuals out of it :3 then Radiant Historia.. i could say a million things abt this game and i Have (most of which is still in my drafts) but god i wish more ppl knew abt this thing. it has its flaws for sure but it does some stuff ive never seen in other games, or not quite the way they do it. n im super attached to the characters <3 probably one of my favorite time travel games by far. and then!!! Octopath Traveler!!!! my most recent beloved.. i did Not think id like it as much as i do but now im very not normal abt it. its such a gorgeous game both in story and the general Vibe of it all its just so <3

9 - A game you played completely blind with no prior knowledge of and enjoyed/loved

definitely octopath. i didnt know Anything going into this game other than that someone recommended it to me bc i also like radiant historia so there had to be some kinda similarity there. going into it, i wasnt sure how following 8 seperate characters and 8 seperate storylines would work nor did i think the endgame would tie them all togther that well, if at all. starting up the game wasnt the most interesting, like when ur going around collecting all 8 characters for the first time and trying to keep up with em all, BUT!! its the kinda game that gets good if u put the time and effort into it and before long i already had 100 hours in. after a while i got really attached to the main team id been using and the other 4 were just as interesting, even the ones i didnt expect to like much?? i adore all the different dynamics within this funny lil ragtag found family so much and all their individual stories.. and everything else is incredible too!! the music is SO fucking good its literally all live orchestrations (and all the musicians are credited too!!) and the boss themes and town themes and route themes are all gorgeous. the graphics are fucking ridiculous, like this game has the best water graphics ive ever seen and that is not an exaggeration in the slightest, and the snow is so so pretty, and the blur effects.. mwah. the overworld pixel art is cute and the enemy/boss pixel art is suprisingly beautiful and detailed. the level design for dungeon-esque areas made treasure hunting fun and i like having to search for hidden pathways in a game built in such a different way than im used to (tho i still have yet to find a way to certain treasure chests >:/). and the gameplay - ive never seen an rpg with set characters that is as flexible as this. u can literally build any character any way and it will be perfectly usable and that is so awesome to me. like theres definitely some optimized builds, but if u wanna make the heavy hitting physical tank guy into a magic dps machine there is nothing stopping u. and he Will kick ass. the gameplay is straight up made for u to do whatever u want with it. the whole world is entirely at ur fingertips. anyway very cute game highly recommend it <3

also worth mentioning are omori, 999, and kh3, but only to some extent bc i technically knew at least Some stuff beforehand for each game but not enough to like. Know. yknow

23 - A "wow" moment of awe

ohhh ive been wanting to talk abt this for a while now thank u for enabling me. in octopath traveler, a Big moment for me was entering the .. spoilery true ending area. ive played a lot of games by now. there are very, very few that have 1. made me genuinely worried about a side character ive met 3 times total n had little more than neutral feelings about and 2. made me feel Actual Dread upon entering an area. the vibe is incredible. first going to a place thats talked about only in tales of a recent tragedy, where there is almost no sound, no life, nothing but burnt, abandoned remains, a save point, and an entrance. and when you actually go inside.. good god. the music is haunting. just the very place is haunting - quite literally!! and the massive lore drops along the way,, man. Man. theres a fuck ton of stuff they just drop on you all at once (some ppl dont like the massive infodump style and im usually the same but i was so fucked up by it i actually absorbed it all lmao), but One Specific Reveal alone was its own wow moment and i havent fully recovered from it. and then the final fucking boss(es)???? hello?????? and the fact that within the eye you can even see (spoiler)........ oughhh. and thats not even mentioning the leadup to it all - the hints are somewhat obvious as you complete each characters ending, but they dont really tie together until you find the diaries. some are more subtle, like the previously mentioned reveal that continues to fuck me up whenever i think about it and i have yet to recover from the whole thing. yes the true endgame is ridiculous and hard as shit and everyone hates doing it. yes its one of the most awe striking moments ive ever felt in a game and i wish i could do it again without the literal suffering that comes with it. no its not even worth it but id do it. yes i am so fucking normal about this game

i also need to mention 999, aitsf, and stella glow here bc holy fuck the three of them deserve it. ive talked abt the first two at some point on their own (the safe ending........ that fucking safe ending!!!!!!!!!!) n i dont have it in me to do a whole thing on stella glow after that ^ so just. trust me on this. ill probably rant abt it at some point its really one hell of a game. oh also ffxv but specifically bc of like the first cutscene where it shows the chocobros getting ready to leave bc that was the first time since id played kh1 and kh2 thatd id seen such pretty looking graphics n characters

#can u tell that im. very into a specific game rn #octopath makes me feel so many Things i need to punch a wall #made my rantings as spoiler free as i could just in case someone following me wants to play it <3 very good game i highly recommend it #literally couldnt stop playing it for my entire first playthrough im so in love with it #ive been writing this for so long i had to block a bot midway #rants that make me feel like squenix should pay me for advertisement . #BUT. YEAH. THANKS FOR THE ASK LMAO <3 #ask #honrupi

[bootlickerhawks]

honestly, if you're thinking of saving up for the game just pirate it lmao. either on the switch itself if you have it (you'll have to check the serial number of your console first + have a sd card) or on your pc by using an emulator. that's what I did and even though it's quite buggy since mine wasn't made for gaming it's still enjoyable ;v; I've made it my motto to never buy any of n*nt*nd* products and honestly, seeing some of the switch games' prices made me light-headed and the switch is already pretty expensive as it is!! and do not get me started on the controllers who stop working after a few months if you don't have a guarantee and which cost an arm and a leg!!!!! anyway rant over loved reading you gushing over the horsies ;V; I thought I was the only one who enjoyed just mounting them (the overworld's background music changes slightly when you're riding a horse and when it hits the deep piano notes... aaah so good makes the experience so much better and worth it <3<3<3<3)

I got the switch oled for sale a couple of months back and I think(???) they fixed the issue with the controllers freaking out. I haven't had any issues so far but I also only have 2 games on the switch : pokemon swsh and smt V, both of which aren't super demanding on the controller (tho I was really scared whenever I played the curry mini game in pkm that I would break it fnjkfek it's insane how fast you have to button mash in order to make good curry 😩)

I would pirate games for the switch but the last time I tried doing that on my wii it locked itself down and it was impossible to fix it :( Plus I heard nintendo takes super strict measures to prevent players from playing pirated games on their consoles so I don't want to take the risk :((

and, unfortunately, I dont think any of my computers are powerful enough to support playing video games on them 😔

I thought I was the only one who enjoyed just mounting them (the overworld's background music changes slightly when you're riding a horse and when it hits the deep piano notes… aaah so good makes the experience so much better and worth it <3<3<3<3)

Omggg that sounds awesome! 🥺

also might check out the games you mentioned!!! i've always loved epona in any zelda game but botw awakened something in me o///o

RDR2 is probably the best one if you want some real bonding time with the horse. You can even make your horse do dressage tricks like the piaffe if you increase your bonding level high enough, which isn't useful but it's a really cool detail imo!

(If you have the zombie DLC), the first RDR let's you get the four horses of the apocalypse which is as awesome as it sounds and they each have their own special power!

#asks #kimiokana #if i were less insecure and better at improv i would make a youtube channel where i just play games with horses in them #and i would stream for hours just me playing around with the horses 😊 #and doing dumb gaming challenges with the horses like dougdoug beating all the mini bosses in botw with the ganon horse

[asfdhgsdkjhgb]

thinkin about minecraft game lore again

#ok first off- the end? why are there sometimes enderman in the overworld? why is the achievement for killing the dragon named #''freeing the end''??? why are there entire cities and floating ships that have been seemingly abandoned besides shulkers? #why are these abandoned civilizations the only places where wings were made and can be found??? and while we're on the #topic of other dimensions with abandoned places- the nether too? like idk if fortresses count as abandoned but there are just #loads of castles just around in the nether and then theres also ''bastion remnants'' which are the ruined remains of huge structures #that are-obviously-remnants but are still HEAVILY guarded by piglins and speaking of remains of stuff in the nether #ancient debris. you get netherite scraps from a block called ancient debris. what thing is it debris from??? why is it ancient??? #more importantly what scattered this debris everywhere that has scraps of the strongest metal in the game??? #and dont even get me started on the overworld #dudeeee #desert temples? woodland mansions? just any auto-generated structure really besides villages. why are there random temples #in the desert that are trapped with tnt but have good stuff. why do the pillagers live in huge mansions and have literally #TOTEMS OF UNDYING #and the ocean is full of stuff #sea temples are neat but also why are these guardians so adamantly guarding... gold? and sponges? thats it? #and dude there are. so. many. shipwrecks. who did these ships belong to??? and why have they all somehow been destroyed? #ik there arent answers to any of these questions but i wish there were? maybe i could write the answers idk. headcanons but #instead of being for a show or something is just for minecraft #SOMEONE RBED AND POINTED OUT RUINED PORTALS TOO omg i forgot about those! who made them? why are they ruins?

[m-chromatic]

NEO forme!!

#spamton #spamton neo #deltarune #deltarune fanart #deltarune spoilers #Is it just me or is Spamtons NEO form INSANELEY difficult to translate to an actual drawing while staying on model #not to mention the discrepancy between his bulky armor giant sprite and his lightweight looking overworld sprite #its like one of those meme images made in AI software that are supposed to look like a stroke #my art #and dont even START about getting a clear silhouette

[abstract-crossverse]

Hi... What if.. One of the gold watchers took a liking to the mortal, and dont, like, try to kill em... Maybe some gay action if u feel me...

Y'know what's weird? I feel like I've written something similar to this before, but I can't find the post

This is general Gold Watcher

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"Liking?" [Dark Deception x Reader, headcanons]

One of them? Liking a mortal? Blasphemy!

But it happened so oh well-

We're gonna call this one Gold again, for simplicitys sake

It started when you first used your stun ability on one of them and saw Gold holding his head in (seemingly) pain

You felt bad and gently put your hands on his cheeks, gently rubbing your thumb over his Adams apple

Sadly you didn't even realize the stun had ran out and heard footsteps behind you, looking back you saw another statue and when you looked back to Gold he was just staring at you, confused and dumbfounded you had the guts to get so close

Though you took your hands off and stated running again, he just stood there, looking at you run away while the other statue gave him a bump on the shoulder for not killing you while you turned your head and kept running behind you

After that you saw him around a lot, but he never got too close and seemed to close off his friends's paths trying to get to you

Eventually you where getting cornered, and as your back hit to wall behind you, with all of the gold watchers in front of you, you failed to notice Gold getting close by your blind spot

He snatched your arm and ran with you to that one hidden room with the writing on the walls, no one aside him knew about that room

You ran to the other side of the room, away from him as he closed the door

Somehow he could move with you staring, but he interrupted your thoughts by asking you if you were okay

After a while of your response and awkward silence aside from the yells and running around from the other statues asking he put the mortal, you asked why did he help you

He just said that it was repayment, for showing him a bit of kindness when he was in pain before

You two hit it off since, touching on various topics about the overworld or take turns listening to each other rant about things you didn't like or shitty people you met

After a while of talking, Bierce told you to stop playing around with the statue and get the ring piece, party pooper

You told Gold that, and while he got a little upset about it, he understood you had a job to finish

You both left the room cautiously, but it didn't matter if you did, the statues had telekinesis, they knew exactly where you were so you both just started running, he helped you the best he could

Like getting soul shards you missed or closing off his 'friends', etc.

Everything was going well untill you got cornered by the other statues

The other statues held Gold pinned down and they decided that turn you up to Malak wasn't a good enough punishment, they tried to make you into one of them

Though your teleportation really came in handy at that moment, and you managed to get Gold out of their grip and you two continued along

You managed to get the ring piece faster with his help and passed the boss fight with the titan, he was gonna drop you off at the portal but you pulled him along to the front of the manor

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" he asked whilst you pulled him along to the main portal

"BRINGING YOU WITH ME, IM NOT LETTING YOU DIE!" you retorted, by those words, Gold picked you up and ran faster to the portal and practically dived in with you

You two ended up on back in Bierce's room, laughing and holding each other as you were able to escape, Gold said he'd cry if he could

Bierce did give you both and earful about it, but said that as long as Gold didn't distract you from your deal too much, he could stay

And so he did, and even accompanied you through some portals, those being the Sewers, Crazy Carnival and Hospital

You two ended up kissing after the hospital, actually, while you were finished with the big Nurse

He told you how no one's ever been so special to him aside from you and that wished you to be his

You agree ofc lmao, though he ends up being stuck with Bierce once mama bear level rolls around

When you get back and get the rings back to Bierce, he charges at you and gives you a kith

You two cuddle after that and get some well deserved sleep

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#dark deception #dark deception x reader #gold watchers #gold watchers x reader #maskwrites #anon #headcanons