#as someone who 'makes games' i guess.

[northern-passage]

hey. have you all heard about this. they’re making a squid game reality tv show. like an actual squid games. have you heard about that. did you hear about amazon also planning a disco elysium tv series, and a life is strange tv series? of course we already have rings of power and then over on HBO we have the last of us and then wherever that shit halo show is streaming. and don’t forget all the star wars spin offs whose taglines are “the revolution will be televised” while being streamed by one of the worst media companies of all time who uses their billions of dollars to support bigots in the government and create military propaganda. have you heard about the booktok industry plant? have you heard about that author who gets their agent to spoon-feed them tropes so they can write the most soulless, bland fanfic that they can then repackage as a YA novel (she’s a new york times best-selling author btw) have you heard about all of that?

the creative industry is so discouraging right now. sometimes i really struggle to find any motivation at all when i see the way certain stories are treated - completely bastardized, milked for all their worth (and then beaten like a dead horse just for good measure) or otherwise you have creators that clearly could not care less, nothing but a cash grab with a pretty coat of paint, usually piggybacking off of trends or just using a pre-existing media (because then you already have a pre-existing fanbase. easy money!) and i’m not going to pretend like i understand how all of it works, what the process is from book/game to movie deal to netflix show but i will say i hate that this is the “goal” now, that this seems to be the expectation with so much art these days, whether the creator wants it or not.

it’s all just so... bleak.

#anyways. sorry i saw the squid games thing this morning and snapped i guess #obviously im under no delusion that any of this would ever apply to tnp or anything i write at all #but it's still really discouraging. it's still hard to find the motivation to create in this kind of grim capitalist environment... #especially when it comes to games which are already underappreciated #and i really dislike the games to movies/shows trend #the level design the mechanics the music the art style all of that is just as integral to the story as the dialogue and narrative itself #games are a way to experience a story it's a different way of telling a story. it loses meaning when you strip that away. imo #as someone who 'makes games' i guess. #like with IF the whole POINT is the player interaction #the choices #and there are so many games out there (literally disco elysium and life is strange) where that's a core mechanic #the last of us it's the opposite #the lack of choice and the railroading of the player is a core mechanic #it's not the same when it's just some actor in a costume. the player is part of the narrative. it's important #sigh. anyways support indie creators i guess #personal

[julijbee]

in awe of the beauty of the world

#art #tes #skyrim #sort of anyways. hes from skyrim so that is how i will classify what is going on here #teldryn sero #tes fanart #i fucking love this guy #sidetracked my quests to give him a walking tour of skyrim after his deeply endearing reaction to the college of winterhold #as someone who never used companions in all my years of playing this game i was thrilled to learn everyone likes this guy as much as i do #also he gets extra points because chitin and netch armors have my heart #the goggles send me joyous places #anyways the state of my sketchbook ever since i descended back into my tes fixation is pretty catastrophic #what with the amount of vivec happening. so look forward to that at some point i guess #ash yams.. hackle-lo.. goggles.. kwama egg.. sujamma.. cup... we are making tinctures tonight

[findafight]

Robin chose Steve. Robin made the conscious and deliberate decision that she could and would trust Steve. She already liked him! She had fun working and bantering with him! They were already on their way to being weird little bffs and the torture just expedited the process. Steve chose Robin just the same! He thinks she's fun and cool and likes her so much! He chose to be honest and open with her too, putting himself out there.

Even though their interests on the surface level don't match why wouldn't they share them? Steve clearly caves when Robin wants to watch a movie he doesn't think he'll like, Robin can watch a March madness game or five.

Stop trying to take away their bond oh my god people can be close to more than one person!!! Their best friend doesn't have to be dismissive or mean or whatever in order for a romance to be special to them!

#if i have to see another fic or whatever that makes it seem like robin doesnt give a shit about what steve likes and talkes about im going #to scream and maybe even rampage #its nice to sit down and have someone who knows explain who the players are and what the stakes for this particular game!! #just because yall seem to not think anyone can be nutral towards sports doesnt mean people aren't #literally why is it so hard to believe robin would like to hear steve talk as much as steve likes to hear her talk #i am so close to telling some steddie shippers to not look at steve or robin or their friendship because some of yall do Not get it. #its like you can see them go 'have to make sure eddie is the most perfect specialest boy for steve...well that means robin doesn't Get Him ' #or 'robin ignores him/dismisses his interests/isnt told everything happening in his life' like okay dont ever touch them again thanks #robin is steves specialest sunshine cupcake goober girl. steve is robins bestest happy times sweet funnyman. dont u dare take that away. #omce again tsgs longer than the post but ah well. #stobin #platonic stobin #robin buckley #steve harrington #stranger things #finda's rambles #steve and robin #this is a scheduled post just to jazz things up i guess #but seriously some of yall need to STOP MESSIGN WITH STOBIN

[whenthewallfell]

~The Many Legs of Peeta Mellark, or A Weirdly In-Depth Look at Panem Prosthetics~

Concept art for Peeta’s leg because I can (details below the cut)

Catching Fire: though the leg itself is removable, the cover is non-optional and the access panels can only be used by Capitol technicians. Due to how ornate it is it can get a bit heavy after long periods of wear, and there’s limited movement in the ankle which impedes walking. It’s designed to mimic the shape of the original leg so it fills out clothes nicely, but flashy enough to be worthy of a Victor should anyone see it. A very pretty prosthetic, but only slightly better than a peg leg. Mockingjay: this is what the prosthetic looks like without the fancy cover. It’s very no-nonsense with an advanced ankle component that has better range of motion without the casing, and features a rubber tread on the bottom of the foot blade to allow for better traction when chasing down and murdering his one true love. Although a vast improvement mobility-wise, it’s been permanently bolted to his leg and the control panels are all welded shut. Everything about this is short-term - they don’t care what happens to him once he’s killed Katniss.

Post War: when he’s caught in the explosion/fire from the bombs that got Prim his leg melts and fuses to his stump, so the doctors end up having to amputate even more. He’s given the choice to try out an experimental implant, which he accepts. This is vastly different from the other ones because he’s got so much autonomy - he can change the settings himself, remove the foot shell, opt in for a leg casing if he wants (he doesn’t). All in all it’s a very low maintenance leg, which suits him just fine, and because it’s an implant it finally feels like a part of him again.

#it's about character arcs as told through injuries #going from having no control over his life and being seen as the disposable 'other victor' who's alive only because of katniss #to being someone who's just allowed to exist and make his own decisions about his body #really pleased with the design for the capitol leg #think it's a nice mix of real anatomy and something vaguely art nouveau #are people tired of me talking about prosthetics yet? #is this what i'm gonna be known for? #the hunger games #peeta mellark #peeta's leg #<-- i guess this is a tag now lmao #fanart #mcbaart

[pinkd3mon]

This is a bonus from the last comic I made

You can find the context here

#kirby #kots #kirby of the stars #kirby fanart #hoshi no kirby #meta knight #star allies #i think about the guest star final illustrations a lot #aside from taranza+magolor+susie being the peak team #like how was daroach+dmetaknight+Ado/Ribbon decided #who said yeah this is a banger make that team #because they were right #and i believe only Kirby would come up with such good combinations #i know guest stars aren't supposed to be canon and the main Kirby gang are the one who save the day but #Galacta also wasn't supposed to be canon and that has never stopped me #also someone asked on tags if kirby clash was canon and #oops magolor Epilogue spoilers i guess #so yeah the magolor from clash is just our Magolor who ended up on that dimension #read the novels for clash honestly I'll never stop recommending the novels #but it's also canon in game universe #meta knight is trying really hard to be proud of Kirby #Dedede would be unadulteratedly proud that's why he isn't here

[dykedvonte]

You wanna talk about House and Benny? Let’s talk about House and Benny. Let’s talk about how House says he saw Benny as a son figure ans a rightful successor to the strip. Let’s talk about how Benny was so charmed by House’s offer that he literally killed a man to get the position to agree to it. Let’s talk about how House was intentionally priming Benny and regrets not doing better, not for the wasted time but of Benny’s wasted potential, how it was misplaced. Let’s talk about how Benny didn’t question House’s leadership until the guy started going radio silent. Let’s talk about House and Benny:

#cause realistically Benny had to be of an age house could project a parental view on when they first met and combined with how impulsive and #short sighted Benny is with his planning and way of operating makes me think he’s not as old as people headcanon cause he was the leader #the chairmen for 7 years so you have to subtract that from his current age meaning he was even younger and more impressionable to house cuz #how else would house see him as a good candidate if his backstabbing was already a thing seeing as house was aware of his plan from the #start so since house projects and acts like a man ranged late 40s to 50s I’d say Benny is max 25-27 by game start so they met when he was #still a teen cause a theme in the game surrounding older npcs ins a resistance to change and of course someone still young and okay with #change would take an offer such as Houses eagerly along with the fact Benny seems like okay with sudden change actually considering him #giving you the reigns when he thinks his goose is cooked #but this is all to say there was def an unhealthy projection on house part on the role he wanted Benny to play that was likely controlling #and the sudden silence as he tried to acquire the chip would only make Benny more inclined to rebel especially since he is still young and #impressionable if we take he’s only in his mid 20s #and before someone says he doesn’t look it he acts like that and some characters are supposed to be 26 and 37 and I bet you guessed wrong on #who the first time #fallout #fallout new vegas #mr house fnv #robert edwin house #benny fnv #benny gecko

[b4kuch1n]

IT ARRIVED IT ARRIVED IT ARRIVED

DESPITE EVERYTHING DESPITE MY CHRONICALLY CURSED INTERNATIONAL MAIL PROBLEM I AM STILL THE ZONE RPG

#bakuspeech #and I guess this counts as #bakuspecial #ouuuuuu #my art! on cards! characters I kinda got to build with my visuals!! #also upon getting this which I had mailed to the senpai's place instead of mine in an effort to break the curse we immediately #ran a game. that was supposed to be short. but ended up extending past midnigt #AND had to stop for the night before act 2 even begins #but. its SO fun. the game pieces do just the right amount of heavy lifting for u that it frees u up to make up Real out there stuff #like. we ran a game on the browser version. and while it was also Really fun it got stressful to make stuff up #now if we're stuck we just pick up cards #and like. idk for kinda the first time really? I get the appeal of roleplaying with someone else #I'm usually such a control freak about the stories I tell lmao #with the visual aids in this set I get to imagine the character dynamics so much more easily #like this time around the senpai picked the scientist archetype #and he made that guy a white guy with some means who has been sending people to death to serve his science #and my character's an asian guy who was with a pest control service (yes I picked the trevor henderson character lmao) #who got drafted into the bureau and works as like cleanup/fodder #so immediately I got to go like oh so I hate your guts. and you condescend at me #which turned out to be a Very fun dynamic to roleplay lmao #throughout act 1 we've made this dynamic steadily Worse. one of them envies the other into oblivion #while the other can now communicate with No one except his mission partner #and we're gonna craft the second act as chase. a predator and a prey. gods. it was SO fun #its so funny both of them were touting to be smart or good at their job. and then they went into the zone and Immediately got fucked up #this game really gives u that satisfaction and fascination with like. when things go wrong in way too thematically fitting and messy ways #lmao my contract's fulfilled I do not have to talk this game up. its just really fun. man I enjoy that so much #sadly my pool of english speakers who can play this game with me is not big #I'll try and find time to run a few small games in the near future... maybe during lunar new year #I was over at the senpai's today to toast out birthdays lol. to get that out of the way we've been planning something like that for weeks #weve been both way too busy. with different sliding scales of uh. how pleasant that busy's been

[ganondoodle]

to be honest i liked the zonau more when they were a barely if ever mentioned mystery and a meme in the part of the fandom that watched theory videos

i know their designs are neat but i think their sudden introduction was pretty unnecessary and robbed us of more interesting concepts than it gave us new ones

#ganondoodles talks #zelda #totk #if they had their own game thats well and good #but them suddendly being the only thing anyone cares about in a supposedly direct sequel #like i guess some ppl were tired of the shiekah but theres always someone who doesnt like something #i just think they already had a cool mysterious ancient civilization that could have been more explored #they already had their place and werent mysterious to a point were it added anything #like the zonau being something that was just a lost part of history made botw feel more lived in #keep that mystery #and expand on the shiekah- the one that we know alot of but also theres enough to get to know about to make another game with #....sorry here i go rambling in the tags again #i will never understand why they didnt do a majora thing #make it a different dimension and do whatever you want with all those models you want to reuse #its such a failure at being a sequel it just wont stop hurting

[purp-art]

she wasnt lying, that sisyphus was prime

#digital art #art #fanart #my art #purp art #violet art #ultrakill #sisyphus prime #no powerwolf lyrics this time unfortunately #‘this prison to hold me?’ is one of the rawest lines in the game so i had to #i think ppl draw sisyphus too angry sometimes so i wanted to make sure he was as unhinged as god intended #(or well #didnt i guess) #like sisyphus is characterized as someone who laughs in the face of war and death #his beard makes him like the only major boss in ultrakill with the possibility of emotive faces #so bro should be smiling!!! #anyway yea i really enjoying coloring this one i think it turned out rly well :)) #blood #mild gore

[fivewholeminutes]

I took a notebook on a trip to my favorite place on earth and all i drew was eepies

#fun game for y'all: guess the order of the drawings by the decreasing amount of fucks given about the logo's details #btw they're from june but i'm posting my art slowly bc i am making it even slower and i'll run out of backup soon #alex vs the mortifying ordeal of having her art perceived #sleep token #sleep token art #sleep token fanart #yes this drawing of iii is my pfp but heavily edited by someone (me) who doesn't have patience for editing

[thegreatcrowdragon]

They better make Shadow Milk playable because I WILL make an entire area for him

#cookie run kingdom #cookie run #shadow milk cookie #this is coming from someone who doesn’t really like decorating in games #well I guess I do I just don’t like making paths #and I will definitely trap him on an island with pv and screenshot it

[devilbeez]

Headcannon collection #6

The first year have a game they play

It called “who said the dumb shit”

A game where Mc complies months of shit the nrc boys said and have the first year guess who said it

Bonus point if they know the context

Yuu: that sound like a you problem

Ace: easy, Azul

Epel: I double that

Jack: I can also see Leona senpai

Yuu: Jack you gotta stop letting Ace and Epel win, they’re in the lead

Jack: I’M NOT DOING IT INTENTIONALLY

Yuu: that’s disgusting, get change

Sebek: Silver.

Ace: no way, I say Riddle

Epel: mm Vil

Sebek: no, it was Silver, it was to me

Yuu: good on you for remembering

Yuu: this is a fun one, “call him that again and I will end your worthless existence you uncultured swine”

Ace: that’s unfair the option is literally infinite

Deuce: ……I’m guess— Azul? I don’t know

Sebek: why does this sound familiar

Epel: because someone like Riddle of Vil would say it?

Jack: it’s a threat so Leona senpai?

Sebek: OH! *jump on the chair excitedly* WAIT! THAT’S WAKASAMA WHEN LEONA SENPAI KEEP CALLING A GROTESQUE A GARGOYLE!

Yuu: 5 point to Sebek, he got that right on the money

Yuu: “birthday party is pretty occult like”

Epel: Rook

Deuce: definitely

Ace: yeah that some room senpai shit

Jack: Ruggie senpai

Yuu: surprisingly, it’s Ruggie.

Sebek: is it that one time we accidentally gave Savanaclaw catnip?

Yuu: yes

#sister game; ‘who did the dumb shit’ #a game where they have to guess who did something dumb #Yuu: who in nrc had— in his own word yeet someone phone because it keep making noises #Ace: because you said yeet I feel like it’s Floyd #disney twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland #twst #headcanon collection #twst headcannon #devilg04

[trashcanwithsprinkles]

hydro constructs

no chapter today but soon(tm), i just had to get this out of my head;;

#you can tell i was too lazy to draw his boots #but you also can't tell me he wouldn't train barefoot #morax medium size for comparison #i like to think the size morax was shown in the moonchase festival cutscene is canon #which would imply morax can just change sizes at will #which is perfectly plausible given the man can shapeshift into whatever he wants #so turning into different sizes of his original form for convenience's sake makes sense #hence why the exuvia in-game is so.... small... #bc for those who haven't seen or don't remember moonchase #morax is like... bigger than the harbor.................. #which in hindsight makes total sense given osial was also fucking huge #anyway #last chapter's jellyfish and next chapter's seahorse #along w the classic narwhal #does that count as a spoiler? #i also have skirk's design ready but i kinda put her in the same canvas as someone elese and i think it's best i wait till they show up #ngl since i can never get a clear image of skirk in my head i don't always envision her with the design i made #it only happens with skirk #which is funny and i guess very fitting #so uh #yeah #hope you enjoyed these childes #genshin impact #should prob start actually tagging these things #.png #.png fic #.png cyanide

[danzafila]

gosh, I just love Enlightened One/Sothis Regalia/Archbishop Byleth soso much

love Byleth embracing their role in the church. love letting them own their goddess powers/affiliation. love them following in Sothis's footsteps, taking on her role for themself after losing her. LOVE them becoming that guiding light to Fodlan, just like they were a guiding light to their students at the academy

that, to me, IS Byleth's arc. they weren't happy during their time as a mercenary, just existing and killing to survive, but never connecting with others. then the academy gave them an opportunity they never would have sought out, but that allowed them to forge those connections they didn't even know they were missing. and it turns out to be unexpectedly fulfilling for them. to see their story culminate in them embracing a role of spiritual guidance to all of Fodlan is such a fitting resolution to that growth, imo

#it's weird to me how many people try and argue that byleth having any sort of leadership role (particularly a spiritual one) is bad #not inthe sense of does it make sense politically in this game that's not actually as preoccupied w/the politics of its world as fans think #but in the sense of does it fit byleth's character arc? is it a fitting resolution to their story? #bc my answer to that is YES it absolutely does!! #their whole arc is growing from someone totally isolated and disconnected from others into someone who learns to connect #and finds fulfillment not just in the connections they forge but also in the guidance they can provide those they connect with #i guess i think a lot of people miss how important and fulfilling byleth is meant to find their role as professor? #bc if you don't get that then the greater leadership role they take on within fodlan at the end probably doesn't hit as hard #i'll never get why fans are so intent on insisting byleth chafes at their role in the church. it's meant to be fulfilling!!! #sto parlando #3h meta #3h talking tag #byleth eisner

[maddieandangel]

Had a weird Hollow Knight-related dream a couple days ago, so I decided to draw a major scene I remembered from it dgsgshf

More context will be in the tags, for those interested!

#hollow knight #little ghost #hk ghost #the knight #hk hornet #hornet #alright. as of writing these tags it's been a week since the original dream so! let's see what i remember dgsgsgf #i was playing a game. which was a sequel to hollow knight ((Not silksong though)) #there was some new sort of divine infection in hallownest and hornet had asked ghost to investigate it. they ended the last one after all! #the red glowy spike gate thingy is what you jumped into to enter the 'infected' areas #though it actually led directly to a hub world type of place. which was kinda like an expanded base for the grimm troupe? #more like an entire lair instead of a camp. also some greek gods were there for some reason lmao. they had their own special rooms too #so sidenote but- new headcanon that there are grimm troupe members named ares athena artemis &... venus lmao. not aphrodite for some reason #also monomon was there?? i think??? except she was cooking????? she had a sidequest to deliver something to someone though i dunno hdgfhdgh #i remember going back to the grimm troupe lair a couple times throughout my 'playthrough' #anyway. the 'infection' this time around was more of a glitchy physical corruption thing? rather than a mind corruption. #though there were still aggressive enemies to fight. but i remember getting a map from cornifer early on and he was. probably infected #i think part of his body was covered in electricity or something? so he wasn't fully visible? but he was still acting normally #there was also a moth who was the seer but then later wasn't the seer (but was still the same moth) dghgdhf. i delivered stuff to her #that glowing white wall thing in the drawing was like a one-way gate. you could only cross it from the other side and ghost came from there #i guess things looped back up somehow i dunno ghdgfhgf #anyway. ghost's red eyes. those are significant! those happened while i was walking through a corridor. it had pools of shallow water #(shallow enough to just walk through) and also creatures that were lightseeds but red.the implication was that they were full of Blood lmao #and as i went along killing them--as one does--as i walked through the hall. they started turning the water red too #there was also narration about this as it was happening ashdgsf. specifically the narrator said the water turned red before it actually did #ghost's eyes slowly turned red too. but aside from that they were fine! since. they're the player character and the player is perfectly fin #BUT. when they encountered hornet again. she thought they were infected. and that she lost the only family she had left </3 #she didn't attack though. instead she just jumped into the red spike gate without a word. decided to try to fix everything herself #but eventually you'd encounter her again down below and she'd fight you. didn't actually get to that in the dream though #aand i'm out of tags </3 i wanted to talk about what i'd do to make this make more sense as an au or something now that i'm awake but. :c

[naomiknight-17]

I watch OutsideXbox vids pretty often to unwind but today's video was about games where getting a bad ending was actually more work than a good ending

And it featured fucking Tales of Xillia 2

Which, no joke, upset me so thoroughly when I played and completed it that I have spent years denying its existence and trying to forget about it

So when this funtimes goofy youtube vid started and showed scenes from Xillia 2 without warning I literally yelled at the TV and started crying and Jon had to come check on me because I worried him. I was laughing through my tears like "This is stupid!! I shouldn't be having a fucking trauma response over a JRPG!!"

That's just how hard that game fucked me up

#it made me care about all the characters and then 1. one fucking betrayed me and 2. several die and you CANNOT save them all #you can't #it's like the first time you play ff7 and aeris dies but times like 50 #you've spent like 60 game hours getting to know and love the main character and his brother! now make one kill the other 🙃 #oh you don't want to do that? ok well guess u have to kill all your friends instead #ok you did the right thing and got to the end of the game and it's time to save the world! now choose who dies to make it happen #someone has to die. you've spent all these hours honing these characters and bonding with them. now kill one. now another #it fucking broke me man #i could go in but i need to go to bed #tales of xillia #tales of xillia 2 #i'm gonna go back to pretending this game never happened #mod post #video games