#but the game itself

[vellichorom]

now, people are free to think whatever they like, i won't tell them that they're wrong, but i'm not sure i entirely agree with the idea that 432 is responsible for the skip button ending happening the way that it did,

rather... i think, quite literally, that they had no hand in it.

#uwu art #The Stanley Parable #The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe #TSP Skip Button #Skip Button Ending #TSP Settings Person #TSP Timekeeper #TSP Employee 432 #TSP 432 #NOW that i posted them now I can Post About Them #featuring something that was supposed to be a warmup & turned into something else #i honestly think the skip button ending was a result of the narrator's self-consciousness & just Terrible circumstances & some hypothetical #* third party interference #but that third party is not 432 nor anyBODY really present in the game #but the game itself #but i definitely am onboard with thinking 432 saw what was going on & did nothing to help #not in a ' fuck you narrator suffer ' type way just ' that's his bed he can lie in it i just work here ' type neutral way #never quite caring or realizing just how DEVESTATING

[densitywell]

spent like an hour trying to find a post abt the disparity of origin companion's content in bg3 and couldn't so, hey, this fucking sucks

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #the fact that the astarion favoritism is baked into the game itself is so darksided oh my god #bc what do you mean wyll has TWO THIRDS THE AMOUNT OF DIALOGUE??? #anyways this thread was also how i found out that astarion is the only one with durge specific scenes #and bc the writer was being forced into crunch and writing for both of them. lol #ETA I know abt Wyll being recast/rewritten and Karlach being added last. the post I linked goes into all of that in detail #as well as linking to another post that goes into even more detail and explains where these numbers came from. #you do not have to tell me. or accuse me of making shit up to make people mad. i know and i'm still mad lol #game design is very complicated yes but there's many ways they could've avoided giving the one black character the least amount of content

[eastgaysian]

the specific frustration with dungeon meshi is that there's been a very distinct shift in fan content and a very clear reason for it. it was one of the rare cases of a decently popular work where the vast majority of fan content you saw was gen or f/f; m/m ships existed but they were not anywhere near as overwhelming as in other fan spaces, and people who heard about dunmeshi by word of mouth often came in knowing about farcille. the anime started airing after the manga was completed and is a pretty faithful adaptation, it's not as if it added any more fanservice/sexualization/shipping fodder. the only difference is that it made dunmeshi more mainstream/popular, and that's when the focus started shifting towards m/m ships and away from gen and f/f. for the people who enjoyed being in a fan space that unlike 99% of fandoms wasn't m/m focused, that fucking sucks, and there's nothing you can do about it because you are always flat out outnumbered

#chilchuck got his ARM BITTEN OFF for being faithful to his wife and you want to yaoify him. #like its literally just if you reach critical mass it becomes a game of finding two guys to smack together. sorry! #has nothing to do with the work itself the characters and their relationships the themes etc

[verflares]

say, what do you think ever happened to that boy from the forest? you think he ever found what he was looking for?

#i have the vaguest hope here that tumblr wont utterly crunch the quality but i think it might be in vain. alas. #anyway take him..... i dont want to look at him anymore #link #oot #mm #loz #oot link #loz fanart #this guy + ss and botw/totk link are my fav guys btw but i think This one has my favourite story across his games and in loz lore itself #gods favourite chewtoy....... he didnt deserve any of that :( #this came out really messy i was kind of just messing around with lineart stuff so im a bit iffy on it but. i like the colours at least #Okay. anyways #my art

[fleshmaid]

Blood Baptism.

Image ref below.

#ultrakill #v1 ultrakill #my art #the only game i've been playing right now since my ps4 hard drive decided to corrupt itself #drawing this gave me eye strain i think lol

[galedekarios]

the audio to the bugged / cut conversation about gale's mother morena dekarios:

[source]

#gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #morena dekarios #tara the tressym #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 spoilers #ch: gale dekarios #ch: morena dekarios #ch: tara the tressym #vg: baldur's gate 3 #series: baldur's gate #misc: audio #misc: video #i hope larian restores this #it makes zero sense to me for it not to be in the game itself when even the audio is there

[frobby]

rhythm gamers will be like "u gotta play this song it's so fun" and the song in question gives u carpal tunnel syndrome

#This is me I do this #I've been playing adofai recently #I think that should speak for itself #When I get ppl to play mega mix on my switch I always start them on sadistic music factory easy cuz I think it's funny #adofai #prosekai #project diva #deemo #arcaea #muse dash #rhythm games #bandori #groove coaster

[tamamita]

why is black and white praised a lot?

For a pokemon game, it was unique for having an elaborate story; it took the narrative seriously, challenged various ethical questions and introduced a handful of memorable and well-written characters, such as N. The game challenged the player's opinions on the ethics of pokemon and always hammered on the ideas of parallalism; black and white, future and past, people and pokémon, truth and ideals and etc. The games were so good, they received their own follow-up sequels in the form of BW2, which took the story to another level. Generations later, we haven't seen a pokemon game that took its narrative that seriously.

#while it could still do much better in terms of everything #it was the only pokemon game to have take itself to such heights which was a refreshing way to experience them that way

[ssstrawberryflowers]

wow vittu and kitr meow meow

testing out some more lineart based stuff, alternative colors under the cut

#if you know what this is based on. you have great gaming knowledge and deserve a star #and before anyone says it. no. its in the goddamn design. i did not just hide her hands for no reason #ctrl u my beloved #v2 ultrakill #kitr ultrakill #ultrakill #my art #basic photoshop brushes fuck hard btw #(photoshop itself doesn't but the brushes still do) #color dodge color burn difference my saviors

[tokay-blog]

Gone to bookmark for zine, the drawings for which can finally be shown after a year x)

#fanart #demon souls #penetrator #I thought about drawing him from the original game #but I didn't get around to it #although the bookmark itself could be double-sided

[nothatsmi]

"You don't smoke." "I don't."

Haha

I am halfway through the third book, which means Andreil is becoming real and. erm- explicit, let's say.

Haha I'm going insane!!

I haven't been that obsessed with a media since The Raven Cycle (from which I still haven't recovered to be completely honest), and I'm sooo eager to draw more of the foxes!!

I probably won't have that much time since I'm coming back to school tomorrow for my last year till graduation (It's already such a rush, I predict short nights incoming)… But I'll manage to find time to draw them anyway.

I actually plan on doing an aftg series of illustrations like this one using the same format and color palette so, expect more! (if I'm not drown in work that is to say)

#all for the game #aftg #andreil #neil josten #andrew minyard #the foxhole court #the raven king #the kings men #the rooftop scenes #(plural) #they make me go mad #they're so emotionally constipated #i won't lie i absolutely adore andreil stuff in itself but seeing neil's way of thinking evolving is so refreshing and nice to follow #noah's aftg series

[very-tired-child]

checkmate.

based on ch 5 of Primum non Nocere by @aughtpunk!!

#cult of the lamb #cotl kallamar #fio draws #fun fact for those who definitely won’t notice #this is based on the chess game that the Mayor plays in Homestuck on page 721 #which itself is based on a real chess game #i couldn’t just be normal about this i had to cross reference an actual chess game #just to make a reference that nobody will notice because the angle makes it impossible to tell #anyway. better view of kallamar and shaun’s scrubs in this one #i’m normal

[emry-stars-art]

Jellyfish, specifically JellyNeil has no concept of gender nor does it remotely care about its gender until a very specific series of events

Find the mer au masterpost here 💕

#tbf Neil still doesn’t care #Andrew gets angry hearing Neil’s ‘I’m whatever you want me to be’ #until he realizes Neil genuinely has no preference #Neil’s not saying it because it’s going to change itself for Andrew #or anyone else #but because Neil *wants* to be what Andrew likes #(even tho sharkdrew doesn’t mind his agender jelly partner) #(technically. it’s much easier for Andrew to admit to himself he’s catching feelings after this moment) #does this make sense. does this come across #ANYWAY #there’s more to be said on the topic but y’all have fun #it/he jellyNeil with interchangeable pronouns I think is what I’m sticking with #for now anyway we’ll see how this develops #fan art #my art #aftg #all for the game #neil josten #andrew minyard #renee walker #dang she doesn’t have a mer tag yet either #andreil #jellyneil #sharkdrew #oops all mers au #mer au #jellyfish

[littledashdraws]

custom classes for flora! sorcerer, dark knight, troubadour

#fire emblem #fe14 #fire emblem fates #fe fates #flora #it's criminal that she doesn't have any custom classes outside of maid #ESPECIALLY when sorcerer suits her so well #it's funny too bc when you give her a heart seal to reclass she has like five options #the game is tripping over itself to let you choose a new class for her!!!

[ineed-to-sleep]

Grabbed a couple templates and drew my touchstarved mc again heehee

Relationship chart template that I used is here <3

Intro and flower templates are from the official rss site

#touchstarved #touchstarved mc #touchstarved game #touchstarved template #that was a great style study tbh #stressed myself out tho jfjfjcjjc I mean the style study itself was already a challenge but then #I decided to redesign her outfit halfway through #and ended up having to redo almost the entire thing jdjfkckjc 🫠 #I've had the wips for this sitting in my folders since last week #but I'm done w it I'm DONE I'm moving on #I've learned some good stuff tho. especially abt linework #oc.emma #also the chibi version of her is based on that image. yk the one #the little. mspaint drawing #of the little guy doing that pose #I need to find it again at some point #for now I'm gonna 💤 gnight <3 #sleepyscribble

[revvethasmythh]

Reminded again, as I periodically am, that there's a fair number of people in the fandom that think of Nott the Brave and Veth Brenatto as two different characters, and not fundamentally the same woman. In the absolute literal sense, this is false: Nott the Brave, returned to the body of her choice and using her real name once again, is absolutely precisely the same person she was before Caleb cast Transmogrification on her. This is, incidentally, one of her main sources of angst towards the end of the campaign! A part of Nott must have both feared (and, in some ways, hoped) that when she was changed back into a halfling, she would also be a different person. That the person she became traveling with the Nein would be an easy identity to shed, which she may have hoped for because it would be easier to fit herself back into her home life with Yeza and Luc--and because it would be easier to say goodbye to the Nein if that were the case. And she feared it because she liked this person she became, no matter how transgressive society would label her for it. And she loved the Nein and didn't want those feelings to be altered.

But she didn't change. Veth Brenatto is Nott the Brave and Nott the Brave is Veth Brenatto. This was always the point. That's why it's an anagram. It's just that when she's Veth Brenatto again, she is much more focused on the why of what she's doing. Why am I still with the Nein? Why am I still adventuring? Why do I have this reticence to return home to my family? Why don't I long for that quiet, domestic life the way I once did? Her emotional journey becomes intensely personal, sometimes subtly/quietly told, and wholly about what kind of future she wants for herself and how her choice could affect those around her. Her two families become anchor points pulling her in different directions and she has to deal with that. Which is a different story than what she was telling when she was still Nott the Brave. Nott's story was much simpler--I am a goblin and I hate it and I would like to be a halfling again. I would like to be able to be with my family again. It's straightforward and it's achieved! But that's not where it ends, because she still needs to figure out a real, functional future for herself once her goal has been achieved.

All this to say, I think when people say they prefer Nott over Veth, it's important to remember that you are reacting to a certain story arc for the character, not an entirely different character. It may also pay to ask yourselves why you think they're so different. Was "Nott" funnier than "Veth" to you? Does her ability to serve as comic relief fundamentally change whether you like her or not? Did you appreciate "Nott's" themes more than "Veth's"? Or did you even notice the themes being explored in Veth's later game at all?

#i'm approaching this in a two pronged way #1. gently trying to point out that they're literally the same person so you're reacting to a change in character arc not character itself #2. desperately trying not to be too much of a bitch about how reductive i think the idea of nott and veth being different fucking is #anyway veth's later game arc is so angsty and sexy it's literally a shame people don't appreciate that about it #veth brenatto #critical role #the mighty nein #nott the brave #yeah why not i'll tag them like they're two separate people. for shits and giggles i guess