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kirbyddd · 8 months

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barkbarkbark Riichi Book I's writing is like screeching chalkboard to my game designer's, translator's, and writer's ears all at once

it's got great concepts buried in there but it's in like the most anti-comprehension packaging conceivable

#what the hell is wrong with you #folks like you are the BANE of game designers everywhere #and game PLAYERS for that matter #THIS is the best strategy reference the English speaking world's got?#baddabingbaddaboom ladies and gentlemen #im about to make bank writing the West's first riichi primer that actually meets the standards of the modern analogue game industry #(which to be honest is abysmal right now the industry's in an insane 'text free' fad right now where every word is replaced with a symbol)#alright then im gonna set the new standard then #imma bout to do for Riichi Mahjong what i did for Ryuutama Traversées 🫸🤛#and for all the dudes at unpub who know how to design incredible games but dont know how to write instructions #alright sorry I'll calm down #but seriously i am gonna start throwing together an actually quality-controlled guide #cause every english resource ive found so far has been like this... inconsistent and full of holes and omissions in explanations #chiba talks about the game's strategic immaturity in the west... well it's got an even bigger gap of educational immaturity #anyways.... I'll toss a bit of effort that way #we'll see how far i take it #I'll either make a few loose articles or a fully fledged book. no in between #god i dont have the energy to make another book when i dont even know if Traversées is ever gonna see the light of day #100% complete full color layout and everything. publishing limbo is real and it's every bit as stupid and unnecessary as you think.#(my case is much simpler than most though cause im only working with two small publishers rather than a big corp)#but still. damn #anyways im so tempted to throw some of my rulebook magic at riichi while it's got my interest #not like i need to write a strategy tome the game just needs a professional quality introduction #don't make me do it i absolutely will do it #i did it for ryuutama when no one wanted to give a decent publication-quality localization for the supplements #and by garriot i will do it for riichi mahjong too if no one gives me a quality guide. i aint afraid of a global high strategy game #<- manic #(im not manic im just extremely restless having not been able to do any solid design work in a while and this book is getting me riled up)#cause it's like “i could write such a more coherent rulebook and HAVE written a more coherent rulebook. so why don't i do it again?”#the Disease is why. but maybe I'll give it a shot anyways if i get a second wind (i guess im otakaze right now harharharhar)

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shrimpari · 9 months

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“I made a pact with Vol, a pact of Blood”

Strahd von Zarovich and his very, very good friend.

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ganondoodle · 5 months

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even if i didnt love botw as much as i do, totk drives me nuts bc, similarly to pokemon, this series is so SO SO full of potential, they have so many games they can pull from, theres so many themes, characters and worldbuilding thats just left to rot, you dont need to connect anything with a chain to old titles, you dont need to bring back any things that already had their ending, but PLEASE harness at least a fraction of all this!!!! and they just refuse to do it beyond shallow references

totk jsut drives it all home to me, bc this isnt just the next game in the franchise, but a DIRECT SEQUEL no 10 years apart from botw, yet they cant even, they REFUSE to even keep the continuity with its OWN lore it established in botw together, and that, i think, is what truly makes me so insane (derogatory) about totk

it PROVES they do not care, they dont care to build on anything of the lore of old titles beyond references in form of amiibos or whatever, they dont even care to make a sequel to their most successful game in the franchise coherent with its own lore

botw established a captivating detailed world full of potential, while lacking in active storytelling, it had environmental storytelling, characters and ideas that were the perfect ground to build on-

and then they do away with it bc idk .. they want you to build mechs and make videos of it that go viral and thats all they care about or something

shiekah tech? forget that existed character being the character you know? act as if you are seeing them for the first time just like they are lame story? dont think about that just be distracted by the epic presentation of it lore the previous title established? forget that, all that matters is what is here and now beloved character from old games beign brought back? hes a new guy and has no background and no lore and just sits waiting for you at the end to have a flashy fight with references from old titles and their lore? just here for nostalgie bait, dont you remember? you LOVE this series, now give me 70 bucks for a glorified DLC that ruins what you loved about the series and makes you realize that nothign matters and nothing is interesting anymore

you are supposed to take it all at face value, to not think about anything, to see a character say something and just go with it, and forget it the second its over, be distracted by good music and pretty visuals, but dont think about, dont think about anything but what is directly said to you like you have no critical thinking skills, forget there was a game before this one, only the one you play matters, empty your skull and dont let yourself feel anything but what the game tells you to feel

if they dont even care to make the sequel to their most successful game actually build on the previous title, dont even care to keep their continuity of two games supposedly directly happening one after the other in tact- maybe they never cared, and all the meaning we thought we saw them build into their games was all accidental and meaningless

and that is absolutely soul crushing for fans like me to discover

its a game. its not a story, its not a world, its not themes, its not characters, its not lore. its a product made to make you pay money, not to make you think about anything.

#ganondoodles talks #zelda #ganondoodles rants #i know it sounds silly to say this game makes me mad bc its so clearly a game #but do you get what i mean??#and the worst part is #they dont even keep the lore said in the SAME GAME in line #the people in hateno where links HOUSE used to be that is now ZELDAS not remembering him #the children acting like they dont know him #where has link been?#did zelda put him into the forest and just let him live with the boars?#even so the house is here so link must have been here to buy it-#but no forget that #its somethign that happened in botw and that never actually happened or mattered remember?#to have balloons and rocktes and people with WINGS in this world but none of them going up to the sky islands everyone is obsessed about`?#well its for YOU to play around with with meaningless rewards not for the NPCs living in this world #the godly goat guy and the hylian priestress directly saying zelda is their distant descendant to her and then #not show nor say not even hint at them having any offspring and then both die a stupid meaningless death to try and make you feel something #“doing the dragon transformation robs you of your soul forever and you will never return”#*returns via deus ex machina without even letting the player take any part in it but by -getting to the end tm-*#also i HATE how totk constantly dangles set ups in front of you #only to NOT follow up on them #the intro giving you a taste of what you might expect for- NOPE zelda is gone immediately its jsut botw but worse again lol #zelda getting the hang of her time powers so she might return to her time on her ow- NOPE dragon lol her powers are irrelevant actually #impa being the only one you can tell about zelda being a dragon and her going oh no im gonna search for a way to bring her back- LOL NOPE #its solves itself and you dont even do anything for it and just watch a cutscene #oh no link lost his arm and its beyond repair- LOL NOPE have your arm back like it was freshly made no matter how few of the light things-#you actually got- the things that where supposedly to battle back the thing destroying your arm #also howt he game gives you endless busy work without any good reward #krogs - mayoi signa - poes - scematics - lightroots - sign guy

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leather-field · 8 months

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three healers

#pathologic #daniil dankovsky #artemy burakh #clara pathologic #my art #when theyre all unmistakably on the same side working against a common enemy but they can’t work together #and their solutions can’t exist alongside each other #so they must work against each other to the same end #or work with each other to opposite ends?#also none of them have free will in the matter because they’re being pitted against each other on so many levels #by the other characters and the directors and the powers that be and the writers and the PLAYERS #i was going to write a whole essay in the tags yknow for fun but actually most of my thoughts about these characters do not exist in words #sorry💔#imagine 14 pages of incomprehensible and nonexistent letters in 12 point times new roman and pathologic has an MLA citation at the end #oooops i wrote a billion tags for this post that is 3 portraits of expressionless video game characters! are yoy mad at me

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the-unconquered-queen · 2 months

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#playchoices #y'all I was so close to including 'f!MC pegging a m!LI' but I ABSTAINED #PB sex scenes: 'who are you' ILW sex scenes: 'I'm you but I can say cock. AND the strap game is immaculate'#ANYWAY of course for me it's more than one of these but the one I need most desperately is the multiple saves #also can we talk about how while PB has several books where ur choices really do matter a lot ILW is—I'd say—the one where they matter MOST #like. jealousy score. humanity/power/mixed points. every choice coded in from the past two books. trusting Matthias.#straight up becoming evil and killing ilitw mc/noah to be with Matthias. killing ilitw mc/noah to then betray Matthias. the nerve scores.#EVERYTHING. that game had me stressed af but in a good way.#like the amount of influence the player has over the story is unmatched by PB and it's incredible that the team pulled it off.#unconquered queries

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squuote · 4 months

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the way the broom closet and the infinite hole being nearly parallels to the other in that they are both areas of the game that stanley has immense attachment to but the narrator doesn’t understand why and makes an entirely huge fuss about his confusion for the affection towards these areas. I think what makes the infinite hole just as funny is the fact that despite succeeding in making a new game feature that stanley seems to really enjoy, he’s so much more focused on the fact that stanley is enjoying it the “wrong” way. aspects of the game that go hand in hand with the bucket.

#the stanley parable #the stanley parable ultra deluxe #YEAH ILL MAINTAG IT LOL #anyway. I find it interesting that the narrator has a specific way set in his head that stanley/the player-#-is meant to interact with the game. and when they don’t interact in the way that he expects them to #-he gets pretty heated or overal frustrated #which his reactions are the best best but it’s just interesting to think about #how the bucket the broom closet AND the infinite hole have this same issue #but also the general overall stance of the game and how we going about leading stanley around #it’s interesting!! it’s fun to examine!!#play my game right and you’ll be rewarded. play my game wrong and I’ll explode you to pieces #I just think it’s fun that every aspect of the game comes back to this singular conclusion!#no matter what. it’s always about choice. good good shit

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badolmen · 6 months

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Actually it really fucking frustrates me as a disabled person how ‘controversial’ video game accessibility is, how contrived it is to find actually useful accessibility mods for even popular games, how abled gamers try to distance themselves from us because we’re the ones without social lives, who don’t leave the house, who can’t work.

#ra speaks #personal #video games #accessibility #not to mention this is part of why elderly people would LOVE video games but the modern market is hostile to ANYONE who might need help #whether that’s better designed controllers/easier remapping of controls #options for low vision/color blind players #or simply implementing easier difficulties #do you know how much it fucking sucks to love horror and gore and ‘adult’ material #while being relegated to fucking Nintendo kids games bc they’re the only people #who makes games that are approachable and forgiving and MADE to be understood?#this isn’t a stab at convoluted plots or even difficult bosses this is to say that a lot of adult games #don’t have good game design when it comes to having accessible controls or ‘tutorial’ levels #like that’s the bare fucking minimum and jfc is it rare to find a #‘skill issue/git gud’ fun fact I do in fact kick ass in doom 64.#because it’s an older game with simple controls and plenty of accessibility mods #I suck at modern shooters bc they have shit tutorial levels too many buttons and terrible modding scenes #it’s not a matter of skill it’s a matter of accessibility for the purpose of improving that skill

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melveres · 6 months

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wizzy was down for maintenance so I drew my Young Wizard while I (impatiently) waited

#chickenscratch #w101 #wizzy101 #wizzy fandom #wizard101 #the young wizard #Galathea (Eurydice)#I've reached lvl 97!!#my hc that the more magic a wizard uses the more it takes over their features physically. like the fire teachers hair or #those black eyes on malistaire. in this case my YW hair is a cloud and becomes light or stormy depending on her mood #i call her Galathea but you cannot choose that name in game so i go by Eurydice instead <//3 #not that it matters considering none of the npcs call you by name anyway dskjafjd #the frankenbunnys name is Gigi. i love her shes great she heals me and freaks other players out lmao #dont remember any of the lore surrounding the frankenbunny so my idea is that Gigi is a botched nercomancy attempt by my YW #half stuffed animal. half actual hare #Galathea had a bad mental health episode early into arc 1 and Made herself a Friend #anyway don’t let diviners perform necromany you get THAT #i realise now the words i was looking for were ‘living taxidermy’

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thefirstknife · 6 months

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Since tensions and emotions are super high, I know people default to drastic measures and worst case scenarios, but I would like to remind everyone that there are still people working at Bungie.

A lot of comments online right now act as if there's no one there anymore and that it's totally okay to burn everything to the ground. But there are still employees there who are facing an incredibly difficult situation and they don't need the community to talk about it all as if they've all died.

It's not helping them or their laid off colleagues to talk about the game they work on as if it's gone and over. They still work on the game and that work will be difficult for them, emotionally and physically. I'm sure it's also not good to be the remaining employee and hear how your work is now worth nothing and "will suck" and be "soulless" because some of their coworkers are gone. It's literally the last thing they want to hear in a situation of complete demoralisation. It's not respectful to them or to the people laid off. This is a massive group project. There isn't a single person responsible for the soul of the game, all of them are. Some of them are gone, but many are not.

Many of the devs that we know and love are still there and will be still working on the game. We should respect their work instead of preemptively calling it soulless. Obviously the game will not be the same. That's not the main issue here. The main issue is that there are still developers who have jobs and who would probably like to keep those jobs and who still care deeply about their work and are passionate about the game and its community. So just be mindful of how you talk and engage with the situation. The remaining devs will have a tough time, especially with motivation and morale going forward; we don't have to add to it by labelling their efforts worthless. Most of all, they will for sure be overworked and understaffed and they don't need added difficulties and demands thrown on them.

#destiny 2 #bungie #it's hard for players to find motivation right now. it's worse for devs #we can just take a break. they can't #no matter what happens those devs are the first to get affected #unfortunately we have very little if any way to actually affect those responsible #once again this should be a call for the whole gaming industry to finally unionise #for the record: this is the state of the whole industry. this year in particular

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satsuha · 26 days

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ageswap au made by @tenretsuzan on twitter! there's a brief explanation beneath the readmore

your name is hikari ku, age 30. you were banished from your home nation of ku at a young age and led a failed rebellion against your treacherous brother, laid low by a harsh betrayal.

"even if it means harnessing this darkness... i will see my country freed from war."

marred by scars left by your once erstwhile friends and plagued by a darkness that grows uncontrollable, you grasp onto the small hope that you may one day reclaim your nation once more...

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your name is temenos mistral, age 21. you led a peaceful life in flamechurch until one day your brother disappears after leaving you with an ominous message about the church.

"roi... what could have led someone like you down a path like this?"

despite your father's protests, you follow after his footsteps in hopes of uncovering his whereabouts, as well as the church's secrets that forced his departure...

#satsuhart #temehika #octo2 #their goals are still the same it's just at different times #if you think about it hikari's rebellion would realistically take at least a few years lol #but this is after he tries to fight mugen but ends up being betrayed by both ritsu and rai mei and has to retreat to find another way #being alone and significantly less hopeful about his situation he starts leaning into his shadow more and more #temenos' is just a matter of... what if he went after roi immediately instead of choosing to stay #tldr its the 'im gonna fuck that old man' temehika au (30 isnt old but 21y/o teme thinks it is)#yeah teme looks the same but whatever. the light has not left his eyes #also fun(?) fact the english ingame descriptions of each char removed the ages #i can get why because saying 'you are x and you are a 21 year old warrior' sounds a little awkward in eng #but its also like. why i wonder if this is the reason people are way more weird about some of the ages #bc they werent told anytime within the game #meanwhile any jp player immediately going 30 YEARS OLD? 20? 18??? yeah u know who im talking about

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don1t1red · 1 month

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You know which option of Delilah downfall would be really as high chaos as possible?

To dismember her and leave each part of her body on display somewhere in Dunwall Tower. After all she can't die without her soul intact so there would be no other option except for further existence and decay. Maybe even leave her caged soul right in front of her body parts. Just so Delilah will always know that her ace in sleeve turns to be the reason of her demise. Won't that be funny? <3

#dishonored #dishonored 2 #delilah copperspoon #oh and u know what?#i want this action to matter #so you as a player cant directly choose to do this or not #it fully depends on your chaos level #bc cmon in the first game the whole final level was different #and than dh2 happened and it was sad #i dont want to deal with delilah twice and by the same method #its just so so sooooo borring and anticlimactic #after all let emily be at leat slightly unhinged in her own game ok??

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kelocitta · 12 days

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Tangentially related to some of the discussion i posted earlier but quiet literally the first RW Art Month i participated I did it completely on whim like, one day before it started. And I mostly did it because I hadn't drawn a ton of rain world and wanted to draw more. Fandom presence was a lot smaller than and I was one of a handful of artists who did the entire thing. Fast forward and I still do Art Month and I've gotten to work with VC directly. But it was quite literally something I decided to do completely on whim that set the ball rolling, and for something a lil more niche and certainly with a lot more dev/fandom art involvement than most. It's really random how and why you might get noticed more than usual, especially with the "toss it into the search and hope it pays out' mechanism of Socmed

#t.extpost #and im hardly the fanciest art month artist out there so it wasnt even about being a jaw droppingly talented artist or whatever #and while artmonth for rw is still given a huge focus its also a much much bigger thing now with a much bigger number of participants #which is cool! its awesome how many people i saw do most if not all of last art month! and VC is really good about not just repping the #most popular artists or fanciest pieces #but theres So Much More there now and while its great for finding artists its also impossible to get Everyone in there you know?#Although they absolutely try #And this is like. one of the most fanartist involved devs ive ever seen in terms of both celebrating the art their fans make and actively #bringing those fans in to contribute #and its /still/ hard to get going just because thats how Posting is #i used to be more of a hk artist which is both a huge fandom and riddled with stunning artists but theres So Many #and niche fandoms are niche so youre more likely to connect with people but less likely to see a ton of engagement regularly -#probably best example i have for that was being briefly fixated on patapon.#Its just messy to try and find the hack that sets you up #just have fun and jump around and make what you like #get a sense of feeling for your style and some people will stick around for that vs. strictly the subject matter #others will look up the thing you switched too and some wont engage #you cant really control it #so have fun and draw that thing you randomly thought about at 2 am that doesnt match your blog #draw for that forgotten rpg you liked when you were 15 or draw for the 70 player max steam game you played for this week #you never really know what will happen #but its not really worth worrying about what will happen either

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sawronica · 23 days

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“We're still in the game,” I try to say this was optimism, but my voice cracks.

“Still in. And I'm still your mentor.”

thinking about how this is both a representation of foreshadowing, of being stuck in coin’s game rather than snow‘s, but also how they never really leave the games. how the roles are rehearsed over and over and even with the games eventually being past, they're still fitting those moulds. doomed to be tribute/victor/mentor wherever they are.

#[ pathetica’s thg re-reads ]#no matter where they are the curse of being a player of the games is ever clear #it's a thing played till death (or until they get better)#but that omnipotence would still surround #and it's a miserable thing #call back to “there's survivors & there's no winners” because it's true #they don't win! they just manage to escape #haymitch abernathy #katniss everdeen #the hunger games #thg #catching fire #mockingjay #i am physically weeping!!!!

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buckys-estrella · 2 months

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need one of lew's characters to be a hockey player frfr

#just went to my first hockey game last night #love the sport but never seen it in person!!#(although my team brutally lost 6 - 0)#idc tho bc i love them no matter what #but ahhh it got me thinking #like i never understood the hockey romances but i get it now!!#and i fr really need someone to either write one of lew's characters as a hockey player #or for him to play one asap!#anyways someone pls write it or send recs my way pls pls pls #sara:speaks #lewis pullman #hockey

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trentskis · 4 months

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happy christmas eve i hope some of u get a grip from santa

#acting as if saka went out all guns blazing waiting to intentionally injure our players please be reasonable!#yes he did injure them but both times was unintentional no matter how u like to look at it. he is not a nasty or dirty player! he just isnt!#and for those saying he gets babied literally take one look at football twitter and how theyre behaving like he killed someone #and saying utterly vile things about him. 'what if it was reversed' it fucking is all the time!! he is consistently fouled and tackled badly #and treated unfairly by refs. why are u letting a draw in a football game get u this heated!!! stop being weird!!!!!#maybe bcus ppl saying this dont regularly watch arsenal but this happens to saka all. the. time. its not some thing arsenal players make up #the same happens to mo all the time!!! come on now and be reasonable and stop piling on a player who is already scrutinised #and make sure u fully understand a situation before commenting on it or just dont comment! because some of u sound very um strange!#this is all coming from a liverpool fan like you are doing TOO MUCH!!!#anyway happy christmas eve gjfgjfkg

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frizzy-frizz-frizz · 1 year

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no but do post canon aaron's friends know that he's a jock. like after he got into med school. does anyone know that he's objective a really good exy player. or does that just?? come out one day by accident??

imagine its just assumed that aaron being aaron isn't all that interested in sports but then someone finds him watching one of the foxes' games (bonus points if it's andrew)

"you watch exy??"

"very reluctantly."

#yes he keeps up to date with the foxes's pro teams #and i like to think he does still play sometimes #if only on fox reunions #katelyn's neice is a huge fan of dan wilds #aaron gets her tickets to dan's game #amd introduces them afterwards #because aaron deserves to take advantage of knowing famous exy players okay #so does nicky for that matter #aaron minyard #aftg #all for the game #the foxes #palmetto state foxes

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