#anyways I'm excited for the dlc!!

[calista-222]

ok brb gonna play Splatoon 1's story mode for the first time <- has the game but barely played it

#my art #splatoon #splatoon 3 #side order #splatoon 3 dlc #splatoon 3 side order #agent 8 #maybe?? #I have splatoon 3 and all the theories about the dlc are making me want to know more about the lore of the other games #good thing I already have the first game #I'm not sure if it would be worth it to buy splatoon 2 just to play the story mode though #anyways I'm excited for the dlc!! #It probably won't be cheap but one can dream....

[prettycoolducks]

Fav father daughter duo ✨️❄️

#art #resident evil 8 #resident evil #re8 #resident evil village #i think they should've done a face reveal for Ethan in the dlc btw #i know we already know what his face looks like but i feel like story wise it would've made sense for him to be able to show his face #in the mold dimension. like. he's already dead. his things over #he has sparkle powers now he's not fucked up anymore #kind of #anyway #ethan winters #rose winters #the dlc felt a bit short but like. its a dlc. so is to be expected #i wish we got more rose content tho. i hope we do get more rose content #im excited for whatever comes next either way though #i like that they let rose be a little gross and scary like her dad. they're both sooo stupid too <3 #i also LOVE that Ethan has sparkle powers in the afterlife.or well. mold. memory. whatever #I'm just imagining all the lords in the mold being like. damn well i guess this isn't so bad. then miranda shows up #and heisenburg is like fuck! and then Ethan shows up and everyone is like fuck!! #like what do they do? kill eachother again? they're already dead #i guess miranda like. killed all the other lords kinda and used them to make the evil duke?? unless i completely misread her notes #I'm gonna go check. then I'm gonna stop typing whole paragraphs in the tags. see ya #art of duck

[leavingautumn13]

more of my dragonborn oc, kyrena, and the slippery slope that is working with daedra

[i have commissions open now!]

bonus miraak:

#skyrim #lydia skyrim #hermaeus mora #miraak #dragonborn dlc #the elder scrolls #autumn.art #autumn.oc #oc: kyrena xaviera #all but one of my tes ocs are involved with the daedra in some way but kyrena's the only one who winds up tapping out #and like for good reason #there should be a mod that replaces all of hermy's extra eyes with googly eyes. i think that would be funny #that's what i think of while drawing them #anyway i'm SO excited to replay dragonborn to see if miraak sounds like danse (and therefore like tim allen) to me now #anyway peryite's quest is gross but spellbreaker's worth it. thanks for coming to my ted talk

[ghosting-fox]

ayo Eclipse is canon what???

also bonus because it kills me that they're so hurt and damaged :"))((((

#listen i know i know i knooow that they're way less damaged than the glamrocks #but they still look so hurt they probably got stuck mid-transformation :'((((( #(but ayo SICK character design tho!!!! kudos to the design team for this one!!!!) #anyways safe to say i'm really really REALLY excited for the dlc #i've just been constantly rewatching the trailer and i have a feeling Roxanne is gonna play a big role in the game #anyways #sundrop #moondrop #eclipse #fnaf daycare attendant #fnaf superstar daycare #fnaf sun #fnaf moon #doodles #comic #traditional doodle #Ghost doodles

[toadslug]

Slightly sloppy Nightcat— I MEAN Watcher doodle!! Super excited for the new DLC :D Didn't think we'd be getting any more major content after Downpour tbh.

This is based off one of the screenshots on the Steam page!! I thought it was another sandy biome at first (white sand is cool to me), but then I realized it was probably snow 🧍

Alt. version below (for a cleaner look):

#i really hope the DLC releases on console a little faster this time #i don't want to pressure anyone on the team #but waiting for the downpour dlc to get on console and avoiding spoilers left and right #kind of broke me #just a little bit #idk maybe i'm impatient #ANYWAYS still excited #i'll wait as long as i have to #silksong has been training me for this #rain world #rw #nightcat #watcher rw #rw watcher #the watcher #slugcats #slugcat #slugcat rw #digital art #art #my art #illustration #digital illustration #lineless art #rw slugcat #rw art month #fanart #nightcat rw #rw nightcat

[crystal-clovers]

SCREAMING CRYING SCREAMING AAAA

I loved pretty much all of the poke presents but like the whole time I was just sat there waiting for Cyrano my beloved to get a cameo

HIS LAUGH I CAN'T I CAN'T

also I can't wait for Paldean Winds!!!! maybe some of the teachers might get cameos???? because I saw Clavell!!! aaaa

#I'll reblog this with Cyrano dearest's laugh in a sec #I'm now so freaking excited #I love the teal mask and Kieran looks cute but like #I think I'm going to like the indigo disk a lot #I was the same with the crown tundra dlc #I much preferred that one over the IoA #anyway #pokemon presents #pokemon cyrano #director cyrano #director clavell #the indigo disk #the teal mask #pokemon sv #pokemon scarvio #pokemon scarvio dlc #dlc #Cyrano dearest’s laugh gif in the rbs

[sarahplantarthe1st]

*Today* actually!

Only 17 more hours to go...

#today's the day!! #happy tree friends is coming back in over 7 years!! #i'm so excited for the new episode premiere! #i just hope it won't interfere with dinner 😅 #buuuuut it might be awhile before i get the actual game that'll have the htf dlcs if they'll still be around in november #and i'm talking about this game called the crackpet show which is a shooting game which looks like a lot of fun #and it also has anthropomorphic animals that are cute and funny but also get killed in the most disturbing ways #and the guy who composed htf - season 2 to present and the tv series for g4- did the music for the game so how ironic can that be lol #anyways!! #mlaatr #jenny wakeman #xj9 jenny #gif courtesy of teenagerobotlove ^^ #nickelodeon #nicktoons #mondo media #htfisback #gifs #btw i'm also going to do like what jenny does here for the rest of the overnight into morning hours lol #with that goofy aaaa face and the pose she did here lmao #OK BYE #happy tree friends #crackpet show

[monty-glasses-roxy]

i hope the 4 lil music men (lil music man, bobbin, glowstick and tippy taps) are okay in ruin, roxy must be so worried about her little buddies

They are! Bobbin, Glowstick, Tippy and Poppet frequently show up in the Raceway to check on Roxy and help her out where possible. They'd hang around more, but they're needed to help guard the nodes in Bonnie Bowl. Of course, there's a lot of Minis in Ruin, so Roxy essentially has her own little army of little guys to help her, but those four are the ones she's closest to.

She can tell all of the Minis apart by the way. You could blame her being an animatronic for that if the others didn't struggle with it. She knows all their names, and knows all the ones that don't since they choose their names for themselves. Even after the place was destroyed, she would still get a few of them being brought to her to hang out by one of the four whenever they would want some help with names or just fancy a change in pace. Of course, she's not besties with all of them, that's just not possible, but she respects them and they respect her. They all generally get along with her and even the ones that don't like her will often make an effort to be there if needed and to not start any unnecessary beef with her. She shows them the same kind of consideration. Her little squad of four Minis mean enough to her that she'll make at least some effort to keep the peace with those she doesn't like. Which is remarkably not many given there's 36ish of them.

But anyway, in terms of how much Roxy is worrying over them... yeah there's a lot of worry for them. She tries to find them in the fire and if the earthquake is canon, after that as well. The four know that though, and generally make sure they're all okay before relaying that back to her. There are many Minis scattered about that bowling alley though that aren't active. She knows which ones they are. She doesn't need to see them to know. If she can, she'll try and get them back up and running again but given the state of the place, that's not the easiest thing in the world, not to mention she'll be learning to navigate it blind now.

She worries mostly when one of the four aren't with her. She knows that given the state of everything, there's a good chance they won't come back. She has never said this. But they haven't said it to her either. The risk is there for everyone, not just the Minis, they all can't help but think the same thing, that maybe this is the last conversation they'll ever have.

With this in mind, there is an effort by all the Minis to keep everyone connected. If they can't reach each other, the Minis are there to make sure they're not alone and that they're still there, clinging onto what they can. It's a dangerous job but they've taken it upon themselves to fulfil it the best they can without risking the safety of the nodes Roxy has entrusted to them. She didn't need to ask. They stepped up as soon as they knew and she trusted them to do their very best. It's not like she can afford to turn down the help anyway, something that becomes even more true when Cassie arrives.

The four are okay for now. In my Ruin AU they're less fine, but they're at least with Roxy so... They've got that going for them.

#fnaf security breach #roxanne wolf #pop rox answers #mini music men #mini music man #ruin dlc spoilers #I'm sorry I haven't answered any of these today I was planning to and just. didn't. #I'm not sure why #I didn't have a problem with this before... #weird... #anyway off topic #there is a giant fucking slug somewhere around here and I dunno where it went #exciting times outside at 2am lmao

[pokemonruby]

i know i haven’t been talking about it a lot since i’ve been preabsorbed in the octopath 2 hype but POKEMON THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW!! 

#mystery dungeon or you're nothing (this is a joke please don't overwhelm yourselves too much game freak. scarlet/violet dlc is enough) #riley rambles #i'm also excited for that new update to roll out since maybe i can finally do tera raids and not want to commit multiple felonies #also home connectivity my beloved <3333 #i want to transfer all the hisuian zorua i managed to grab before they curtailed the shiny odds in legends arceus.... #i think they're also adding something that will let you delete multiple pokemon at once like in pla? that's what the notice said at least #or maybe i misinterpreted it... either way i hope it's true i desperately need to tidy up my pc but the effort of doing it one at a time.. #i have adhd beloved #anyways . excited <3 i'm mainly expecting scarlet/violet dlc but i'm not sure what to expect FROM it... so! i guess we'll wait and see :)

[hardhuilen]

I got a shipment confirmation for Tears of the Kingdom this morning aaaaaaaa

#i'm SO excited #there's been no space in my brain for anything but zelda the past week #i actually 100%-ed botw (excl. dlc because fuck trial of the sword) which i never ever thought i'd do!! #900 friggin koroks. loved it #still have stuff i need to do tomorrow but i'd only go crazy with anticipation for the delivery anyway #also have swordfighting so i'll have to take a break in the evening but after that the entire weekend is just gonna be zelda #honestly i think i'd skip swordfighting if i wasn't missing it next week already because of my vacation lol #my life

[chasmbreach]

stfu i'm enjoying LIFE

#chasm art #I'M SORRY BUT HONESTLY #YEAH THIS IS BASICALLY WHAT HAPPENED #i've just been out of it this weekend and then i just #ETHAN #also #resident evil village dlc #i'm very excited for the plot but i'm terrible at shooter games #and the horror zombie apocalypse makes me freeze #ANYWAY I'M FEELING BETTER

[girlscience]

I started another DA:I playthrough last night. It's all I want to do now. I don't want to be at work 😭 I want to be in the Hinterlands.

#I think MAYBE I could finish the game again with this fellow and if I do that maybe I can get him to a higher level than Lloyd #so that I can actually finish the dlc without getting stuck and angry and giving up lol #maybe I'd actually play trespasser with him. that would be nice #especially since I'm gonna romance Dorian and the Dorian scenes in trespasser HIT #and I need to do a full rogue playthrough because rogue is my fav class in dai and lloyd was a two handed warrior #which was not as fun tbh #and honestly this is how I have played the game so far #make a character get a ways in. make a new character get even farther. and again and again and again #each character goes farther than the one before it sooooo I think it could work #and this would be my first long dwarf playthrough which will be fun #ANYWAY IM EXCITED #and I missed it ❤️ had to give myself a long break to get super excited about it again #but now I am and I remembered how much I love the aesthetic and just want to live there #da:i

[he-calls-me-kitten]

Sugar, Spice and a Tempting Vice

VA! MC x OM! Characters

"Hey Levi, any new game recommendations for me? I just finished the last lot of books Satan suggested." You asked, plopping down your head on his shoulder to look at his screen.

"M-MC! You have to warn me before you do such things!" He muttered, his ears turning red as he scrolled some webpages pages for you. "But okay yeah these are the new games that are out recently... see anything you like?"

"Oh my God! It's out it's out!" You pointed excitedly at the screen. "Pretty Little Things is out! Finally!! I was dying to tell you all about it!"

Levi visibly stiffened up. "You-you were waiting for this particular game to come out? Are you sure it's not another game with a similar sounding name?"

"Nah uh this is the exact same one. Look up the list of voice actors in this game!"

"WHAT?! MC WHY IS YOUR NAME IN HERE?????"

"Yes! This was the new part-time job I couldn't tell you about since it was still in production! Im so glad you can just play it now!"

"...it's uh ready for download on all platforms already...so which character did voice?"

"Oh spoiler alert, my character is the only one that doesn't have a name, you have assign me one, the same way you name yourself. They even designed the characters to resemble all the VA's and add in some of their personalities, isn't that sweet?"

"Hahaha y-yeah definitely sweet! I'll be sure to check it out soon!"

"Great! Lemme know what you think of the game okay?!" You squeezed him in a small hug before you left.

Later in the Demon Brothers only group chat:

Levi: Code Red! Code Red! ASHSKSHSKSKSJJSKKS

Mammon: WHAT WHAT THAT MEANS AN MC RELATED EMERGENCY RIGHT??

Asmo: OMG are they OKAY?? Should I go check up on them in their room!?!

Satan: I'm already on my way.

Mammon: NOT BEFORE ME YOU'RE NOT!

Belphie: Is MC hurt in anyway?

Beel: Did they pass out from hunger?! I can bring them emergency snacks right away

Lucifer: Can you lot not lose your minds everytime MC is mentioned? Pathetic. Levi, calm down and tell us what's wrong.

Beel: But Lucifer I just saw you hurrying up the stairs to MC's room too...

Satan: Typical Lucifer. By the way, MC is perfectly fine, happy even. Levi what are you on about?

Mammon: Yeah MC can't stop smiling! It's a good thing that happened, you idiot! Why would you scare us like that?

Asmo: Omg apparently MC voice acted in a new game! Levi I need you to download it for me ASAP please!

Beel: Me too, please.

Belphie: Me three.

Lucifer: I've already done it, you all can do it yourselves if you could do your own work for once.

Satan: Oh shut up, MC just did it for you right now as they did it for me.

Levi: It's a Dating Simulator. With multiple H-rated DLC endings. And MC is one of the dateables.

...

Levi: Hello?!! Did you guys not see my message?!

Levi: Seriously no reaction?! You guys aren't freaked out by this?!?

Beel: I just heard several doors opening and closing at once.

Asmo: Oh come Levi, I think you already know what our reaction is Levi ♥️ How can we possibly hold in our excitement after such a news!?

Levi: Are you all downloading the game together?!!! Y'all are hogging the bandwidth too much, my download speed has gone way down!!

Simeon: Hey

Simeon: I heard some demons in a cafe, raving about a game where MC plays one of the main characters?

Solomon: Indeed MC just sent us all a link right now.

Simeon: Oh is that so? I'll get Luke to help me download it after he's done with his.

Levi: Luke is playing it too?! I don't think it's appropriate given it's certain hidden endings!!

Barbatos: MC already made sure of it. He only has access to the sibling and friendship routes. It's a special version they added for all ages.

Diavolo: It already has downloads in the ten thousands. I'm really glad to see how MC is beloved by Devildom.

Levi: Are NONE of you affected by the fact that there are erotic routes with MC's VOICE?!!

Solomon: Oh I personally cannot wait hear my adorable apprentice's performance.

Barbatos: Ahem. I'd rather not comment on it.

Simeon: Same.

Diavolo: Same.

Levi: Sigh. We really are just a helpless lot at the mercy of MC.

To be continued...

#obey me #obey me smut #obey me solomon #obey me satan #obey me mammon #obey me asmo #obey me beel #obey me lucifer #obey me simeon #obey me diavolo #obey me barabtos

[shima-draws]

Tell us about the AU! I know you want to!!

WAUGHHH. AGHHH. OKAY. OKAY SO. I've been watching one of my favorite content creators play through the DLC. Early on in the playthrough he was tossing around theories and said "Maybe KIERAN is Ogerpon??" and that gave me a BRILLIANT THOUGHT.

Ogerpon Kieran AU.......

I've already thought of a very long and complex backstory for this LOL but to simplify it. Before the ogre and its human companion came to Kitakami, said companion was actually living a very happy life with his child. However, they were caught up in the midst of a great war that ended up taking the child's life. The man was so overcome with grief that it summoned a great being (I'm thinking Xerneas), who blessed his dead child with new life. And that child was reborn as Ogerpon!! So kinda like how children who get lost in the woods and die are reborn as Phantump.

Fast forward to many many years later. A long chain of events leads to Carmine's grandfather's...father (so, her great-grandpa?) meeting Ogerpon and vowing to make it a new mask, a mystical and powerful mask that could grant wishes. Sadly, Carmine's great-grandpa wasn't able to complete the mask before he died. This project was eventually picked up by Carmine's father (and I have a whole other thing about him but I'm not gonna get into it right now lol). Carmine's father forms a very close bond with Ogerpon as he continues to gather materials to finish the wish mask. He expresses his desire for Ogerpon to finally be able to walk among the villagers with its name cleared, and for Ogerpon to meet his only daughter. He leaves for a journey to find the last material for the mask...and never returns 😔

Carmine's grandfather has a whole complex about the wish mask, but after seeing both his father and his son dedicate so much time and care into completing it, he takes the last material, imbued with the hopes and dreams of his family, and finally finishes the mask. When he presents it to Ogerpon, Ogerpon dons the mask and its wish is granted...it becomes human :") So it becomes Kieran, basically!! Kieran's wish was to be able to say thank you to all of the generations of mask makers that had helped him, and. To be part of their family 🥺 What he doesn't know is that his wish to be human stems from the fact that he already was human, once. But he doesn't remember his life before he was reborn as a Pokemon.

So, Carmine's grandfather happily accepts Kieran and his desire, and takes him home to live with him and Carmine. Note that Kieran is probably around 5-6 at the time, so he's BABY. And Carmine is only about a year or two older. She isn't sure what to think about suddenly getting a new brother, but she's happy to have someone to boss around lmao.

And once a year, during the festival of masks, Kieran lets his facade fall and wanders around as Ogerpon again. Just to keep in touch with his roots haha

So obviously with Kieran being Ogerpon the events of the DLC will play out differently than canon. Kieran slyly compliments the ogre in front of the player and mentions that maybe it's just misunderstood. He's been trying for a while to change the villagers' minds about what happened to him and the Loyal Three all those years ago, but it hasn't been going...too well lol. So when the player shows up, and things start to shift, Kieran gets really excited bc he realizes he finally might be able to clear his name :")

Is this AU silly and dumb as hell? Yes. Does it not really make sense with canon and is full of plot holes? Yes. Am I brainrotting over it anyway? Also yes.

Take a little edit I did of Kieran's official art to fit what I had in mind for the AU ;) I wanted to draw it but I'm at work rn lmao RIP

ALSO LITTLE DOODLE OF THE BOY

ALSO bc of Ogerpon's original gender Kieran probably goes by he/they pronouns in the AU

#Listen I know this AU is stupid as hell but it means SO much to me #Shima answers questions #Pokemon #The Teal Mask #Pokemon Kieran #Pokemon Carmine #Ogerpon #Kieranpon AU #Shima's AUs #I'm brainrotting SO hard. HELP #Long post

[directdogman]

Hello Hound!! Since it's Dialtown's 2nd anniversary, I've been planning up a few "general" related questions about your series that I've been meaning to ask, but I decided to save them up for the big day because why not? Anyways, here's what I've got, these were meant to be fun to answer so don't sweat it :]

1: How do you feel about Dialtown's success? Are you proud of how far you've come? 

2: Which character was the MOST fun for you to write, and which was the most PAINFUL?

3: What is something you wish more people would talk about or just know about related to Dialtown in general?

4: If you had the opportunity to write a FULL complete, detailed life story of any of your characters, who would that be?

5: What's a character you wish you could have given more screen-time or just in general content? (Considering iirc you were trying to make sure Dialtown wasn't TOO long, so I was wondering if this ever came to mind)

6: From what I know, you've been doing the job of cosplaying several characters in the game and acting out their sprites, which one was the most fun to act out?

7: Speaking of sprites, do you have a sprite you could consider your favorite, out of ALL your characters?

8: Do you have a specific line of dialogue you could consider your favorite throughout the entire game?

9: Could you ever see Dialtown expanding into perhaps sequels or maybe even prequels? More DLCs mayhaps? Heck, maybe even a Dialtown 2 or a Chapter 4??

10: If you could make any fan-made interpretation (such as headcanons, designs, or ships) canon if given the opportunity, what do you think would be your pick?

11: What was the MOST fun part about developing Dialtown? Coming up with new characters? Writing them? Adding all the bizarre dialogue options?

12: And last but not least — on a scale of 1-10, how fun was developing Dialtown just in general?

That's all I have for now, and I'm really excited to see your answers!!

I normally don't answer this many questions, but... alright, sure, tis the season!

1: How do you feel about Dialtown's success? Are you proud of how far you've come? 

Yeah, of course! I'm a lil proud, admittedly, but I'm aware of how comically little I really have to do with it all, even if I did make the game. Luck does play a LOT into it, of course. Granted, I made my share of predictions that wound up being useful, but it always comes down to lady luck at the end of the day. I've seen good projects fail and bad ones go viral. It's really all just a hodgepodge of probability and whimsy. That being said, I am very pleased with DT's success, and the community that's formed around the game! It caught me by surprise!

2: Which character was the MOST fun for you to write, and which was the most PAINFUL?

Gingi's always fun to write. And Mingus. Most painful is tough to say. Maybe Crown. I got a little weird when I wrote his full backstory, kinda caught up in the emotion Norm talks about. Never been a fan of stories getting cut short. You gotta wonder what would've happened if he'd made different choices, y'know?

3: What is something you wish more people would talk about or just know about related to Dialtown in general?

Honestly? Karen, probably. She's super underrated for sure. The fandom still loves her, but she doesn't get the same kind of attention as Oliver, Gingi, Randy, Norm. She's worth it.

4: If you had the opportunity to write a FULL complete, detailed life story of any of your characters, who would that be?

Oh, I already have. I have this monstruous 30-40 page document detailing Crown's life and entire career. It's quite a read. and quite a mind-fuck if you don't know Dialtown's universe too well.

5: What's a character you wish you could have given more screen-time or just in general content? (Considering iirc you were trying to make sure Dialtown wasn't TOO long, so I was wondering if this ever came to mind)

Oh yeah, a few characters had scenes that were cut. Stabby, Shooty, Mingus, Bunny, even Bigfoot! There's also the game's cut 6th datable, who was an interesting character with ties to other characters in the cast who I wanted to do more with. Ah, maybe one day.

6: From what I know, you've been doing the job of cosplaying several characters in the game and acting out their sprites, which one was the most fun to act out?

Bigfoot. I made the ape noises in the suit. Had to. It felt right.

7: Speaking of sprites, do you have a sprite you could consider your favorite, out of ALL your characters?

I quite like Norm's set, Mingus' too. Karen's poses too are quite good.

8: Do you have a specific line of dialogue you could consider your favorite throughout the entire game?

That answer probably changes every day. I like pretty much any scene where Mingus loses her temper.

9: Could you ever see Dialtown expanding into perhaps sequels or maybe even prequels? More DLCs mayhaps? Heck, maybe even a Dialtown 2 or a Chapter 4??

I'd love to make sequels one day! I've got a lot of ideas for where the characters/story would end up. By the time DT1 wrapped up, I'd conceptualized way too much stuff to put in one game (without it taking another few years to finish), so if I ever wanted to make sequels, I'd 100% know where to start! But, that's a later down the road conversation.

For now, I'm gonna keep working on the Roger DLC and if there's demand for more, I can go from there :)

10: If you could make any fan-made interpretation (such as headcanons, designs, or ships) canon if given the opportunity, what do you think would be your pick?

I guess I COULD do that with, like, anything. Nothing immediately springs to mind, since, y'know, I'm in control of the canon anyway. I will say, I've seen headcanons and theories that ARE scarily accurate to canon, to the point where I've feared people would just think I'm lifting stuff from the fanbase! It's a good thing I talk about these things with collaborators, huh? I've got a PAPER-TRAIL!!!

11: What was the MOST fun part about developing Dialtown? Coming up with new characters? Writing them? Adding all the bizarre dialogue options?

Finishing a new scene and realizing how stupidly long it was (without me realizing it) was always a treat. But yeah, writing the characters had to be it. Specifically any scene where a character the audience knows meets someone the audience doesn't know well (or at all), with the dynamic changing. Those are fun to write.

12: And last but not least — on a scale of 1-10, how fun was developing Dialtown just in general?

Hard question to answer. I do really wanna give a high number, but truthfully, a lot of game dev actually isn't super 'fun'. Some tasks are, granted, but many parts are a slog. Sitting and formatting dialogue, and then adding text pauses and pose changes isn't exactly a super thrilling activity. The engine itself also has some issues which I have to work around that adds to the workplace. Play-testing a scene for the 4th time isn't super fun either, or trying to figure out why the game crashes on some PCs and ONLY very rarely... Those tasks are Sisyphean to some degree.

...But, while most of those parts aren't fun, it's all still rewarding. There's a sense of accomplishment when you finish a scene. You get to look back at your hard work, remember the hours you spent typing dialogue into a text box and formatting mass amounts of pngs, painstakingly + manually getting the game's awful pre-loader to deal with the sprites right, etc... and suddenly, at the end, you've got this lil experience that people can play and enjoy. Somehow, the sum of all of those not so fun activities has created something that's going to make people laugh, feel happy. That's special. and even if some parts of development weren't super fun on their own, that's always what I remember. That in the end, all of those not so fun days mattered.

The route I agonized the most over was Oliver's. I went through a few weeks of writer's block, and now, it's one of the most popular routes in the game! Crazy how that happens. I was SURE for about a week that people would rank the route at the bottom! That's what I mean, all of the stress I went through trying to figure it out amounted to something people connected with! To think I almost CUT the route entirely!!!

And y'know, God knows Dialtown gave me something to throw myself at during a time where I REALLY needed the outlet. I'm very grateful to the project for that. So, I'll give DT an honorary 8 out of 10, even if it wasn't a consistently 8/10 experience making it heh heh! Sure glad I did, though and I'm very glad if any of you reading this had a really good time playing it! :)

Thanks for the questions!

[sykam0re]

Analysing the new Splatoon 3 Wave 2 DLC - Side Order

I am about 90% sure this is supposed to be Agent 8!

As such, what I talk about next will be based entirely around this assumption - if this is wrong, then this analysis is void, but it's just for fun anyway so hskshj

I personally believe this wave of the DLC will be tackling the loose ends in regards to Octo Expansion, and more specifically: 8's amnesia prior to starting it. Having no memory of who they are or where they came from, they fight their way through the metro, defeating Tartar along the way and reaching their freedom on the Surface.

But then...

Who are they still?

Besides the memcakes, this issue is never quite resolved. As such- I believe the DLC will focus on that! With Agent 8 rediscovering who they used to be, and who they are now. Figuring out their identity and sense of self so they can finally know who they are. And based on what we saw in the trailer, I have several ways to back up this idea.

First up: the hub. A coral-ridden, colour-bleached version of our beloved Inkopolis Square. There is a strong coral themeing throughout the entire DLC trailer, and I think the reason why might be relevant to 8.

Coral bleaches when exposed to stressors in its environment, such as light, temperature and nutrients. So perhaps this is a metaphor for all the stressors on Agent 8's psyche. Their environment has changed dramatically, from Underground to the surface world of Inkopolis, so it wouldn't even surprise me if such changes still left them quite out of it.

It could also be a metaphor for how Inkopolis Square still isn't home for them. Considering the very intentional hotel-esque interior of the tower, a hotel being a place travellers go to stay in, this could very well encourage the idea that this still isn't home for 8. Just a glorified trip, regardless of whether or not they even can go 'home'. If they even remember home. The fanciness of it could also be a nod to how out of place they feel, as though they were in a place far out of their league. Like a common man in a palace, it feels...out of place.

Then? You have this image of multiple octolings. Multiple '8s', that perhaps could imply that they are still struggling to find their identity in a sea of so many like them. So many soldiers like them, so many test subjects like them...

They were always one of thousands, nothing more than a number in a crowd, so they never had any individuality. They never felt they were unique. So why is them who got to find their freedom? Why were they special?

And now we make it to the key in all this:

Pearl and Marina.

Pearl and Marina were a key component in helping 8 escape the Deepsea Metro. So if anyone would be here for them in such a struggle: it's them. The idea of it being a recollection of 8's memories could also explain Marina's glitched out appearance here.

It's just a memory. Were her tentacles blue, or green? Was this her outfit? Or was it something else? Maybe 8 even has some lasting memory issues after everything...hence how even newer memories seem to escape them.

Pearl seems to meet them in the blanked out square, so they're likely a key part in all of this. Just a hunch.

Overall though, I'm really really excited!! This DLC looks like it's shaping up to be something amazing, and I hope my silly ramblings at least interest some of you <:)

Thank you for reading! ♡

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