#and then since then i havent had the means to play

[nabaath-areng]

I was planning to build new desktop this fall, but seeing that the winter half year practically chains me to bed making me incapable of sitting up I took some of my savings to get a laptop so I can have it in bed for drawing, writing etc at least. And so I'll save back up the coming months and build it once spring arrives instead (hopefully component prices has gone down then too)

All that to say I can only eat my hands as I catch glimpses of dawntrail news after having been ffxiv-less since july last year. my abstinence is out the roof

#that being said i am admittedly a little bit nervous about returning now that its been so long #i played without break from 2014 til 2020 and then its been on an off between 2020 and 2022 #and then since then i havent had the means to play #like on one hand i dont dare looking too much into ffxiv happenings cause my abstinence grows worse #and on the other i worry that ill feel weird coming back #because returning from past breaks have felt weird #which admittedly might be because i dont allow myself to take my time and enjoy things but rather rush to catch up #but whenever i can play im just gonna take all effort possible to not rush and potentially even do things on my own #rather than feel stressed by not slowing down others #im glad for the increased single player options tbh #at the same time the break has done me good cause i feel like im further away from making those mistakes #and having a lot to catch up with before being up to date might be good for me #finding hobbies outside ffxiv has done me good too #my relationship to it wasnt the healthiest as it was my sole lifeline during horrific and traumatic years #but now ive been able to play tons of other games again and read books and draw more and write more than ever #and done more irl things again even finishing one type of education #so honestly? i think itll be fine #i dont have to feel bad over my relationship with the game evolving into a different form #i still love it immensely and its had a profound impact on my life as a whole #both in terms of friends and creativity and also significant other #anyway that got longer and rantier and more personal than i first intended #peace signs and sparkles

[akascow]

am i missing something or does the Tenacity buff serve no purpose in splat3 since they stop the game if someone DCs now (usually)

#does it mean if someone on ur team dies then it fills ur gauge or just if someone leaves the game #bc ive never actually gotten a clear answer #i never notice a difference anyway so thats why i assumed its the DC thing #this has been on my mind since 3 came out but ive been too scared to speak up and ive seen no one talk about it #remember in 2 when someone just poofed out the game at the beginning and u had to just fight for ur life #it was silly but i prefer it over the ‘connection error has occurred’ bc at least i got to play the game😭😭 #splatoon #splatoon 3 #telliong me what the game defines as tenacity doesnt help in the slightest but thanks i guess #like 😭 do u think i havent already tried reading that over and over to make sense of it ? this post wouldnt exist otherwise

[quaranmine]

guys i think my productivity might drop on firewatch au because by playing minecraft bedrock with irls this weekend i have inadvertently opened a door i cannot close, which is that i am now being asked multiple times a day to play minecraft in the discord server we made

this is not a complaint!!! there are worse "problems" to have slfjdkslfjskl

#i had no idea they liked minecraft so much this is a dream #i havent really had irls to play with since my cousin back in 2014! #anywya what i mean by 'productivity drop' is that some of my empty chunks of time where i would write are now being occupied by Gaming

[cleromancy]

making up* the perfect robin for dickbats n then just. yoinking him away and giving him to bruce. hmmm. Sucks

*importing from a non-canon timeline story but the adaptation choices 100% set him up to be robin for dick ykwi FUCKING mean

#always conflicted bc. i never wanted dick to be batman forever obviously. #but ummmmmmmmm. sometimes. a little. as a treat #and he has to hate it the whole time except for damian pretty much. #(I Also Think the effect that would start having on damian as he started getting old enough to realize it #would be really interesting!!! like this is the most important thing in the world to me but it makes my favorite person miserable. #like i dont... delve into that in lbof bc damians not one of the pov characters buuuut in the as yet unpublished sequel #you do start seeing some of what that means 4 their relationship... hueheuehe) #and. lol. i only know the broad strokes of what dcs been doing with damian since the reboot but what ive heard i really havent liked. #and i absolutely have not heard anything that makes me reconsider my stance that narratively speaking damian makes no intuitive sense as+ #bruces robin. smh #also while im complaining about like. the reboot taking away the existing structure that had been set up for damian as a character to play+ #off of. #colin would have been SUCH a good supporting character for damian... he was in SIX ISSUES but the freakin. potential!!!! #everyone who writes damian with a hero bff with a nothing personality: it doesn't have to be like this. take my hand #dc #like specifically damian was this traumatized displaced abused child and the similarities and differences btwn him and colin aka abuse & #the way that damian latched onto him so fast n kept trying to impress him which like. alright damian was trying pretty hard to impress+ #everybody at the time. hes the baby tryhard we know this. #BUT. LIKE. him seeing someone his age and not immediately wanting to write them off as a simpleton or whatever yk... like #was significant particularly bc colin Did think he was cool without yk. the relationship dynamic devolving into fawning or whatever #but like to HAVE the contrast btwn them their backgrounds their motives & demeanors but you still had damian recognizing that smth about+ #them is The Same. ugh #whagever its fine. its fine. i have to do everything mysellf aroumd here but its fine.

[elegyofthemoon]

wait im silly its a gacha game of course they'd reveal the characters within the trailers themselves rather than surprise the players when you play it its how they get you 🤭

#having a little silly goose moment #really thought i was onto something here LMAO #like i see yanqing's trailer showed off already prior to release trailer's date #they already showed cocolia bronya and seele #and welt and himeko #luocha makes an appearance in the second trailer they release after march's trailer #sorry im just trying to see if there's a possibility there'll pOSSIBLY be more characters that havent been revealed for penacony #by which i mean honkai 'expies' since we had a handful not just 1 the way we have acheron which im even hesitant to count at this point lma #i guess what I want to know is for the former honkai players who were eyeballing this game prior to star rails release. how did yall feel #seeing the characters? were people hypothesizing about the expies and all that?? were they super excited?? did they know?? they were expies #but anyways #snow plays hsr #goomorning #if youre asking how this came up it was more curiosity bc i was surprised by just the One #but tbh at this point im treating hsr as a separate game from honkai impact just bc the stories are so Different and deviate anyways haha

[britneyshakespeare]

i finished twelfth night. 25 out of 38 shakespeare plays completed.

#after finally reading othello and twelfth night in the past 10 days im not sure which are the most famous plays i still havent read #bc like ive mentioned previously ive always read the plays in arbitrary order. whatever piqued my interest #hence why i read the henry vi plays relatively early on. or some of the more obscure comedies #but lately since i past the halfway mark this year some of the more talked-about ones im like 'geez i should just get to that one already' #not that that makes me enjoy it any less. i think i mentioned that in my post i made while reading othello #i fucking loved othello. that shit was 10/10 although i very much was reading it bc i felt like i had to at that point. #doesnt mean i wouldnt love it. after all i only read shakespeare bc i love shakespeare! not bc theres a gun to my head #its more like i just want to know what everyone's talking about already #tales from diana #i think at this point the most famous one i still havent read is... much ado about nothing? which isnt THAT famous all things considered #but some of you ppl do seem to be awful crazy about it so ill see #i already knew the plot of twelfth night i had just never read the original. now i have #so i kinda already knew how much enjoyment i could get out of it. some! a good amount! #but i found it a quick read and i wasnt THAT excited about it #the next one i want to read is pericles though. ive read 8 shakespeare plays in 2023 but none have been romances! #i do love the romances. the romances are still the only genre where i havent read more than half of them #ive read 2 out of 5. the tempest and the winter's tale... two of my favorites overall #in a way ive kind of been holding myself back from reading more romances bc i needed to check some of my 'required reading' boxes lol

[evercelle]

ohmygod wait i just realized. have you played/watched salmon mode??? i ask bc you said you'd just finished v3 + bc the saiou interaction in there is. my god.

i haven't played yet but i looked at the transcript! it's good... ouma finally reaches out (': some of the choices that get you max affection with him are hysterical lol. get it ouma

#ASK EVER #i'm gonna play salmon mode on wednesday!!! #i havent had time to play again since last week but ive been meaning to go back to try the back routes and get the love key and stuff

[todayisafridaynight]

this isn't related to rgg at all but finding out you're also a fire emblem fan was great... first the mention of the ike figure then the insane por prices LMAO? i had no idea... what games have you played?

Back In My Day i was known as ‘the eliwood/elihec guy’ and on occasion The Ike Guy LOL but yeah…. Guilty as charged……

As for the games ive played ive played Shadow Dragon (DS remake), Shadows of Valentia, and then FE6-FE3H + FEW (minus Heroes of Light and Shadow)

im an asshole for playing on authentic software hence why i skipped out on FE1-FE5 but maybe one day ill stop being annoying and pick them up on an emulator. Or IntSYS remakes them <- doubtful (well. The rest of the JP-exclusive games anyway lol)

#snap chats #FE is like my DQ honestly LMAO i love the games so much #tho… cant say that nowadays… i havent played any of the new ones since FE3H #no particular reason aside from maybe not being too much of a fan of the art style #but i could just be a true geezer at heart and prefer the old pixel/portrait art of the 2000’s era #SoV’s portrait art is gorgeous tho. that games SOOOO good berkut’s still one of my fave antags to this day #oh but. in case you couldnt tell. FE7 was one of my faves to post for a while LMAO #it was the first game i got to play since my bro got it and let me play it #he also had sacred stones so i played that once i was done with FE7 #then i played brawl and fell in love with ike. as in Big Sword And He Punches/Kicks People #so….. i saved up to buy PoR and later Radiant Dawn (tho i got RD for. MUUUCH much cheaper) #and i mean i always thought marth was cute. And A Girl so when i was able to i got SD #not my favorite game ngl the cast was just. too huge and not memorable but i still love marth as a character #at some point i figured id try to play FE6 and bought a japanese copy (that i had ray chase sign actually) #the hit rate is fucking. ABYSMAL. and my JP was even worse than it is now BUT we got through it #the tellius games def have my fave cast and lore tho and i love the music. and Por do be on my baby the gamecube #and then i got awakening because my childhood bestie- who never played FE before- loved it a million so i figured why not #and then. My Insane Ass. she bought birthright and so of course i bought conquest #but then i heard about the removed features in the JP versions so i bought those and gave her my conquest copy #and then i paid her to homebrew my 3DS because I Am Stupid. so did i pay an obscene amount of money #to play Arguably the worst FE games Yes. but i got to use my ike amiibo so its ok :) #i love how i talk more bout fire emblem on my rgg blog than on my FE blog LMAO thats just how it be #but yeah those are my FE crimes thanks for listening LOL #i oughta cap it there i been talkin WAAAYYY too long LMAO

[holytrickster]

idk i think it's so funny I went down a survival horror game rabbit hole when a) I'm too freaking anxious for horror games I will make myself cry, b) it was all PS2 stuff which is extra funny bc I've never even played on someone else's playstation let alone had one, i was always a wii kid lol. but now my brain is like ah yes. time to consume everything I can about games I can't even play and that are stupid expensive/hard to get now

#also i love that people draw jennifer from rule of rose and fiona from haunting ground together #they're just two girls with their dogs and in horrible situations and you know im glad they get to have dogs #any game where i get to have a pet is alright by me even if shit is otherwise majorly fucked #anyway. i do need to play pathologic. it's funny bc in theory it is really the kind of thing I'd like bc there's so much stuff to uncover #plus i think classic HD (which is the version i have) fixes the bad translation so it's not even like it's too hard to understand #at least only hard to understand in the intended pathologic-y way anyway #and i really really like the soundtrack #and everything I've watched and read about it is sick as hell (no pun intended) so i think the thing making me unable to get into it is the #actual experience of playing it. like it's funny how much of an asshole dankovsky is but that doesn't mean I *want* to play as an asshole #its funny the only time i really like playing that way is in skyrim bc im just. greenish elf that picks everyone's locks bc it was the first #thing i figured out and characters will just ???? let me fucking do it??? (i say having gotten arrested in whiterun like immediately) #i guess because I'm not invested in any of the characters yet because i havent had time to sit down and really play it #i guess that'd kind of be the way i play in lotro but that's more just me not interacting with other players #fun fact i think i still have one of the earliest fellowship quests sitting unfinished bc i can never form groups to finish them #i don't think I'll even ever get good at lotro though honestly #more just knowing what buttons to spam #idk i played hunter FOREVER but minstrel is really really growing on me #even though some of the skills are kinda wasted since i only ever play alone #anyway what was i talking about

[enevera]

hey so like ive been taking foreverrr on the 100 followers art bc i havent had a ton of time to take out my tablet in awhile, which is bad when i was trying to do all of them on my tablet instead of my phone. so to anyone who sent a prompt for that, would yall be okay if i did it on my phone instead? msg me or reply if ure cool with it <33

#i feel rllyyy bad abt how long its taken #but like i havent had time to play around w cords and outlets that dont work and such in like a month or so #meaning that i think all my art has been phone art since then lmao #but yeah im abt to go to bed but i wanted to put this out there lol #this isnt even abt anything im just talking rn #if you'd rather it be done on my tablet thats fine too idek if anyone can rlly tell the difference besides me anyway sdfjbhk

[bmpmp3]

hold on. hold on im shifting into vocaloid mode. hold on

#sorry spent too long listening to music sung by japanese singer Lia #and one Lia led to an IA and i started thinking too much about like #Lia and Miriam Stockley being like the singers of my childhood (Tori no Uta and Perfect Day respectively) #and how they both were voice providers for a vocaloid at one point #and then about how their vocaloids sound so different from the singers #(miriams being honestly largely because of the limitations of vocaloid 1. i think if they made an updated bank with like a falsetto version) #(because miriam stockleys voice is interesting with those HIGH high notes but also these really rich midtones) #(i think she might be able to get more qualities from her voice provider) #(in IA's case its largely because most people use her higher range LOL you can really hear the resemblence to Lia in her lower ranges) #(although i do like how different she can sound in all the different ranges its neat) #and now im longing. to play with utau again #i havent had a change to use it since i got a new computer (messing with locale changes too much can like) #(mess up my computers OS or bios or something so I wanna be careful lol) #i still gotta see if i can fudge something with a virtual machine but im too lazy to set one up JHFDSJFDs #pray for me....someday i'll do it #you know its funny. ive played with other vsynth programs #(couldnt get deepvocal working) #(synthv is pretty awesome. that voice bank koharu with the automatic intonation stuff is INSANE) #(like when u use her mid and lower range she sounds like straight up a PERSON its nuts) #(and ahem. i have. played with the big boy. the big V. the voc of loid edit her. maybe through means of questionable legality. cough) #but i always wanna go back to utau for some ungodly reason JHFKLDSJFkds #LIKE its clunky and every other program is so much more versatile and smoother to use and everything #but like. utau is so like. solid #like its so tangible in a way i cant describe fjdsklfds #maybe i just like changing voice quality by typing in a bunch of random numbers and letters in the flag section

[nexttothelamp]

Aight I'm ranting more

#the brain fog is thick and so is my apathy #wish i could work #wish i didnt have avoidance issues with anything even remotely reminiscent of public school 😅 #wish i had more time and more energy #wish the insurance company wouldnt bill me for not healing fast enough 🤣 #wish my wife had an easier time being alive #wish there wasnt a budgie slowly dying in kims basement #wish my mom wasnt so stupid and sad #wish i could cut the two most irritating people i associate with out of my life 🤣 #wish a person that drives me crazy hadnr changed their name to the same as my cat 🤣 #wish i wasnt too apathetic to at least play a video game til i can pass out #i have been awake almost 24 hours #havent gotten that bad in a bit #...and i still feel like i cant rant on here cuz of THEM #i deadass LIKE when people that make me happy interact with these #like the knowledge that a beloved mutual or follower read my stress and cared enough to throw a like #its just a little hey! i feel for ya man! #like the fact that anyone would care about my wellbeing in the slightest? means so much to me? #but them. they make my skin crawl. have since i was like. 18 maybe younger #i miss my grandparents #im... not invited to the spreading of the ashes. thats gonna be just the siblings #no grandkids #BUT linda wants ME to take some of their ashes to graphton #its the last place maw got to pick before she lost her mind #i'll find the grade school where they met #i think theres a river port out there; maybe he got on a naval ship there #maybe thats where he left and promissed hed come back #or maybe i can find the place where she stayed waiting. or their first house! #its... something. one more thing i can do for them #i wish i had been big enough. strong enough old enough. anything enough to be more for them

[draconic-distress]

Ah yes.

Fun squid game 3: the apocalypse.

fuck yeah man i love this game, i'm a reef-lux main :)

#was addicted to it when it came out. havent had as much time to play because of inktober #ill probably play it soon tho since i finished the big main piece #but anyways this game fucking slaps hard #and i like the new weapons a lot too #the new gear is also very good #and i LOVE deep cut!!! frye is best girl no contest #also the fuck u mean people struggled with big man's boss he went down like a fucking chump #anyways i really like splatoon #asks #anon #splatoon 3 #morgan's ramblings

[orbitbyler]

good morning louis tomlinson finally officially announced his album and i’m going absolutely feral i’m shaking fr my heart is beating out of my chest am i okay no i’m about to spend so much money fr LOOK AT THIS. the aesthetic is delicious everything is so………………….. MWAH i want to eat it🧍

#the sold out sign is physically paining me #fuck my life and my stupid sleep schedule #i need the picture disc so bad i feel sick #why did he have to announce it right after the con and the harry concert im going broke fr fr #there’s cassettes too NFKSNFJSMS i want everything i feel ill #i have no way to play them but idc they’re pretty #the tracklist too????!??????? i mean it had leaked so i already cried real tears over it but #shits been wild in his fandom lately shit has been leaking left snd right and i havent heard any of it ☹️ #i need to join his fandom on twt or something but that sounds like hell #if anyone in the louis tag is reading this and has the leaks… dm 🙏 hand in marriage 🙏 #sorry i usually dont talk about anything non b y l e r related but louis tomlinson is my everything and he has been since i was 12 #this is my blog tho why am i sorry #sometimes im like i wonder if louis is still my favourite but when the tracklist leaked i was… actually i shouldn’t expose myself like this #i really did cry tho lol #so #yeah #louis tomlinson

[captainshyguy]

looking at the list of confirmed returning pokemon for scarlet and violet i cant help but feel nervous X] no gastrodon yet, and it HAS been in almost every single pokemon game since its release so im worried they’re gonna give it a break... (then again snorunt has been in every pokemon game i’ve played too so...) 

and then also just.... out of the returning pokemon families so far, 50 were in sword and shield (including the expansion pass) and 22 weren’t... 

#i could be wrong but i feel like there's pokemon that i hvent seen in gen 7 let alone gen 8 #like idk the elemental monkeys or something #hence why i think its super cool theyre adding skiddo and deerling and stuff #lik ofc evry pokemon should be able to get in the game anyway like gen 7 where as long as u had bank u could being in whatever #but its nice they're catchable in game i guess? #i dont know i know i havent played bdsp OR lgpe so most of those would have already been covered #plus theres ones from gen 7 they didnt add again like minior give me minior do it <3 #but MAN im sweating a little like cmon please give me my squishy i've had her in ever game blease #horribl feeling they'll drop it in but it'll only be west sea KJFNSKGNGKDS #luke rambles #though i fguess with thatu can stil transfer east since the reverse was true in swsh #i think im also worried because a lot of the pokemon i wanted to use one day just arent here yet #whiscash flygon togekiss goodra dhelmise appletun etc #like dont get me wrong i plan to use mostly new pokemon where i can #but i do also tend to only use designs i actually like so it highly depends on what there is #i mean i suppose i can use most of those during my inevitable replays of usum that i need to do so i can shiny hunt legendaries #but still X]

[crunchycrystals]

ok it takes me a while to form opinions on albums so know rn that my opinions on ttpd are 100% going to change so much this week but like i like a handful of them????? but id really prefer if shed start focusing more on quality over quantity

#crunchyposts #ts #i think shes a good writer i just dont think this is her best #again i havent fully processed the lyrics yet so this is def gonna change over time #it takes me sometimes years to fully process lyrics this is not my final opinion but just like in general id prefer shorter albums #if it meant the overall quality was more consistent #like spend a bit more time bumping some of the songs from a 6.5/10 to a 9????? yk what i mean #some of the lyrics are Strange to me like i like i hate it here but the racist line always takes me out just like thats already part of the #song that you romanticize the past you didnt have to say it like that nhjdgsjhfkgsaulfkjlgsfjkaslhlfs #i think shes got some great lines on here though like i wish i could unrecall how we almost had it all has been playing on loop in my head #since i heard it #i feel like her best writing to me is when she puts emotions that feel so impossible to describe so simply #like memories feel like weapons or all of foolish one which doesnt use big words at all but you feel the emotions so deeply #does this make sense sorry i just noticed that i dont listen to my discog playlist of her as often as i do my other discog playlists #like for fob or paramore and i realized it was bc every time that happened id have to skip through so many songs i was p fine with but #were just kind of like 6s or 7s/10 while on other playlists it was like a 6 or 7 way less often #maybe i just dont like her music as much now????? idk this is a very Me Centric post if yall have any thoughts related to this #agreement or disagreement hit me w it