#dev: well. be careful

[blueskittlesart]

tbh possibly the funniest move nintendo has ever made was rereleasing sksw, The Timeline Game, like a year before totk, getting all the new botw fans obsessed with the timeline lore, and then fucking everything up with zero explanation in totk. i hope they never explain it i hope they just leave it like this forever

#'remember how we made this game specifically to tie all our lore together? you liked that right. well fuck you' #huge win for people (me) who think timeline-obsessed zelda theorists are annoying as FUCK #'where does botw go on the timeline' who cares actually. clearly not the devs. the game is good. it doesnt matter <3 <3 <3 \ #personal #the timeline is an ENHANCER for the overarching lore but i truly don't think the devs should ever be beholden to it. #they were making games for like 25 years with 0 overarching timeline whatsoever and most of them turned out great #we can theorize or whatever but i think making the game chronologically consistent with the already wildly confusing lore #should be REALLY low on the priority list for the devs. if the game is well-written and fun to play we can retcon it into the timeline late #just like we did with LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE OTHER GAME ON THE TIMELINE EXCEPT SKSW. #totk spoilers

[louroth]

Leith :]

#OUROBOROS #ouroboros if #interactive fiction #art #twine game #wahoo! im in the final stretch of making all the art for ouro #Leith's f!portrait is first one to make it into rendering stage (I haven't painted in a really long time) but im really happy with #how it turned out :] It's She!! #all the charas are so nice and breezy but if anyone asks how Id's portraits are going I might cry about it #I will be back with another dev log soon but until then I really hope you are doing well and taking good care of yourselves<3 mwah mwah #leith/custom #ouroboros art #character portrait #mmm. might have to do a color correcting pass #maybe once all the portraits are done

[maxlovespigeons]

Hey, you like COTL, right? Could you help me figure something out?

Why do people ship Narinder and the Lamb?

YOU ARE ONE OF TWO PEOPLE IVE MET ON THIS SITE THAT HAS ANY FORM OF RELATION TO THE GAME THAT SEEMS TO NOT SHIP NARILAMB!

And I'm not even sure about the other one

Oh I do ship them! I suppose from what I've seen it started out as like a very common joke? How most of the players that spared Narinder after defeating him ended up marrying him

Plus there's the whole mini quest series you get from him in post game where it seems he warms up to the Lamb and even ends up thanking them, I think that's pretty cute :] even if you don't ship them you could probably see them as unlikely friends at the end of it.

Then there's the domino effect of the ship being popular: people enter the fandom, see the ship is popular, then start shipping it as well because why not? Shipping is one of the biggest fandom fuels, so it's rather not surprising that the fandom latched onto something like that!

And, in the end, the creators seem to encourage the ship on Twitter a whole lot! They retweet art and interact with the community a lot in that regard, even having made some jokey official art with the two in a position where they'd be seen as a couple (as Mary and Joseph in a parody artwork for Christmas).

Nothing wrong if you don't enjoy the ship in the end, as long as you're respectful to the people that do! (Which goes both ways, of course.) The game has a lot to offer and the relationship between the Lamb and the One Who Waits is the one we get most of, so I don't think it's overall very surprising people choose to focus on them a whole lot!

#maybe one day we will get to see some more relationships between characters to chat about or overall more lore #it doesn't seem like the devs have implemented everything they wanted to add to the game just yet #the relationships between the bishops for example are also super interesting to think about! #overall who cares if it makes sense #fanon exists as it is for now and everyone is having fun so! #cotl #ask #cult of the lamb #also i suppose you got the impression I don't ship them from the fact I don't draw them a whole lot? #i tend to focus on a lot of other relationships as well but i do greatly enjoy seeing these two in fanart and such

[definitelynotshouting]

Honestly, it's a little hilarious to think about the fact that, seemingly, the reason the watchers chased Grian after he fled the colony was basically the equivalent of them going "Oh No! The baby! He's gonna get himself killed all on his own!"

I've always mentally likened it to an abusive family who does deeply care but the dynamics are just so fucked that it doesnt even matter, yknow??? These are entities that essentially told Grian-- and hold the deep-seated belief-- that he can never survive on his own again. That he has to give up his independence and live within their control, their rules, all to help bring their population up. And theres the additional horror that if he had stayed, they wouldve viewed their experiment with him as a success, and he would've eventually been forced to do the exact same thing to another Player. The dynamics were just SO unhealthy and horrific, and so he very understandably ran at the first opportunity that presented itself.

Idk theres just a very specific horror to me in being chased and trapped, but out of genuine perceived care, because the disregard for your feelings isnt even something that's intentionally malicious. But a cage is still a cage, and losing your autonomy is still losing your autonomy, no matter how good someone else's intentions are. So to me, the Watchers are basically like Grian's extended abusive family, who would try and force him back in a heartbeat if they happened to find him again

#shouting speaks #asks #hunger au #once he escaped some of the watchers just gave him up as a lost cause #but if they ever found him again. they would do anything in their power to bring him back and KEEP HIM there #does this make any sense i basically just woke up my brain is still coming online #but yeah. the specific dynamic in my head wrt the watchers and grian is one of a very insidious control #that does happen to come from genuine care #also incidentally this is why hermitcraft worked so well for him for so long #hc sticks to the outskirts of the server cluster #whereas the watchers' colony is within the rings of the local dev crystal #he could not be further away from them rn if he tried WHEEZE #txt

[diverbots]

R.I.P. to Zenyatta getting lore. (joke (withered wojak))

#text #I feel so bad for the Overwatch devs cause this is obviously an executive decision. #Honestly it's so. Sad. To see this happen. At this point you are legally inclined to call them your ocs cause the higherups at Blizzard- #-certainly don't care! #Anyways. I'll be back Friday this actually has made me kind of push myself to develop on more stuff surprisingly. #Well. I mean I'll try to be back. See ya.

[randomnameless]

The "i don't want to kill Edelgard" dialogue the game forces you to pick for Byleth in Verdant Wind is still one the funniest things in the game when you think about what that means in-universe; Byleth has had no issues killing people to get what they want all route-long, but the second Claude brings up killing the girl who started the war and is most at fault for everyone that died because of it, including her own soldiers, they say they don't want to, presumably just because they had such a deep bond with her during their time at Garreg Mach (even though it's perfectly possible to have Byleth spend all their time there never interacting with Edelgard once).

It's shit like that that makes me understand where the same-crest attraction people come from; that forced dialogue choice is at least understandable in Silver Snow, where Byleth is forced to teach Edelgard for a while and would have logicaly formed a bond with her because of that, but the only way that line makes any sense in VW is to assume that their crests made them feel a deeply-heightened and accelerated sense of attraction to each other, to the point that the few short and irrelevant interactions they had in their short time together at GM was enough for them to form a deep bond.

Anon,

If same crust attraction was a thing, do you really thing Billy would angst about Supreme Leader in VW, when Nemesis himself pops up at the end of the route???

I mean, between Supreme Leader and Nemesis, who are you going to simp for if you never talked to any of them, and both are leading a faction to destroy you and your allies?

Supreme Leader, or Nemesis??

All jokes aside,

There's, sadly, no Watsonian explanation for the very Doylist "but she lufs u!!! feel sad about her!!!" approach the devs wanted to hamfist in their game : Billy will feel bad for killing Supreme Leader, even if it doesn't make any sense for them to do so because that is why the devs designed FE16 to be : a story where the player will feel bad about killing the red emperor.

(or at least the player avatar, because damn if this completely missed the mark regarding some players lol)

Just like you feel super BaD for icing Randolph and Ferdie who still works with the Empire, fighting side by side with a Demonic Beast - when the game doesn't expect you to feel a thing when you kill the poor sod who was turned into a monster because the Imperial Army needs War Assets.

that's why some people really felt a bit disturbed by all this Supreme Pandering coming out of nowhere - same with Rhea in VW since her supports are optional, so if Billy is really a player avatar, why should they care about Rhea?

(granted, I'd say even if you only do the strict minimum, Billy still wants to help Rhea in the cinematic before falling in a ravine, so at least there's this sign that Billy cares about her - sure, Billy protected and saved Supreme Leader against Kostas, but after the Flamey reveal, we don't have anything to even remotely indicate Billy still cares specially about Supreme Leader : Billy's avatar status is the reason why they're written to care about Supreme Leader, and yet, Billy's character status explain why they care about Rhea - again, another example of the devs wanting to have their cake and eat it too!)

#anon #replies #remove the devs's “but we want to sell Supreme alts!” and the game #might make more sense #maybe as not Billy specifically caring about Supreme Leader but more Claude #who doesn't like needless bloodshed and talks about how their ideals are kind of similar and how they could have allied #to hint at Nopes #have Dimitri go full Roland in the Golden route mode #still hate and want revenge on Supreme Leader for destroying Faerghus and the rest of Flamey's deeds but also #wanting to accept a world without bloodshed and how he accepts that despite everything she doesn't need to die #because his wish to save everyone is stronger than his hatred of her guts #but that would imply rewritting the game so much that #well this Dee couldn't exist unless he's basically throwing the world in jeopardy for Supreme Leader and his own ideals #especially if it's finally revealed what the fuck Rhea went through during those 5 years #that made her aka someone who can facetank missiles #on the verge of death and imperative Nabatean sleep

[cream-and-five-sugars]

watching the Nier fandom losing its collective shit over some Reddit guy posting a video of them opening a door to a room THAT NOBODY HAS KNOWN OF and that leads into a creepy ass church with references to the previous games feels like experiencing a creepy pasta... live

#i always come back to automata because i just enjoyed it a ton and the lore is practically endless lmao #BUT THIS???? #like FUCK #either it's an insanely well-made mod or recreation of the game that must have taken an eternity to make #or it's a dev trolling the fans with the ultimate goal of teasing new content or sth in that direction #or it's a legitimate SECRET ROOM that needed such specific triggers that only one person has ever got access to it?? #i really don't care what the outcome is here because either option is fucking amazing #nier automata #nier #mp

[licorishh]

Replayed Modern Warfare 3 2011 on Veteran tonight and goooooooood night. Blood Brothers never gets any easier to watch no matter how many times you've done it and the ending really never misses huh

I apologize for the amount of yapping in the tags I reread it all on mobile and started giggling because it went on for so long but eh. Blessed are those who won't shut the freak up and all that

#call of duty #modern warfare 3 2011 #i just. wow. wow wow wow wow wow #i've played these three games so many times over the last several years and i just. #they literally. never get old. #loose ends and blood brothers will never not make me cry and endgame and dust to dust will never not make me smile so hard #ending it with price smoking the cigar like he did in the first mission in the first game wHEN HE FIRST MET SOAP JUST UGHHHHHH. #i know y'all don't care but i don't care that y'all don't care i could literally yap about this until i shrivel up and die #i have never ever ever in my LIFE seen poetic justice played out so beautifully like it is at the very end #JUST. WOW. WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW. WOW WOW. WOW #they do not frickin make games like that anymore DADGUM #i also forgot how frickin sad down the rabbit hole is?? like jeez louise they didn't have much screen time but gosh #i also have never in my life heard such gut-wrenching anguish from a grown man in my life like price in that one scene #I KNOW Y'ALL KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT THAT MAN MAKES ME FULL ON S O B IN THAT PART HE HAD NO BUSINESS #anyway i'll keep cutely living in denial and pretending literally any of the main characters besides price and nikolai are fine <3 #foley and dunn and their team seemed just fine at the end of modern warfare 2 so i will accept that small mercy #at this point these games have taken everything else i love away from me so #y'all probably think i'm wild for how insane i get over these games but the nostalgia bit is a big part of it as well #like they're honestly in my opinion genuinely the greatest video games of all time #but the fact that i have that connection with my dad makes it so special #crazy cause he said he also cried in blood brothers and my dad is 54 and i have seen him cry one (1) other time in my entire life #heck infinity ward but also bless them i hope the devs live long beautiful wonderful prosperous delightful exciting fulfilling lives #Lord bless them and their entire bloodline for the contributions they have made to humanity not even joking #AND DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THE FREAKING SOUNDTRACKS DO NOT GO THERE OAUSYDJAKAKDN #MW2 AND MW3 CREDITS. EXTRACTION POINT. COUP DE GRACE. RETREAT AND REVEILLE. CONTINGENCY. PARIS SIEGE. PRAGUE HOSTILITIES. RUSSIAN WARFARE. #UGHHHHHHHGHHHH everything about these games is so unbelievably perfect and immaculate #i have got to get over my art block NOWWWWWWWWWW #makarov is also the best villain i've ever seen idc bro he's frickin awesome #i mean obviously he's horrible and a disgustingly evil human being but as a character he's stupidly well-written

[miradorjake]

what will msg be like…………if tonight was that….

#dev look away this post isn’t for you and I say that out of complete love and care for your well-being

[arklayraven]

Yeah I don't blame people for seeing this as confirmation og is truly about to end...Fuck...

#;little raven speaks #if it isn't and its gonna still be around for years to come...then devs really need to fucking show some care and love for the game. #but knowing how season 2 in NB ends...uh...well...it's not good.

[yarnshoes]

Yeah man ive been fuckin gaming n shit.

#nu carnival #its REALLY good lol its actually well written n stuff???? n they handled a LOT of difficult topics w care. #n the devs r actually pro lgbt its crazy. #its too good. #also rei n quincy r super hot LMAOO

[rennybu]

genuinely a fan of taking the “mistakes” i made in my first DA2 run and looking at them from Orson’s character perspective, like, i messed up the timing on Isabela’s personal quest and so once she left she did Not come back, even tho they had high friendship. Orson struggled with balancing his work/life balance and could at times be very shallow and forgetful, and in trying to fix that aspect of himself (after Isabela’s departure) and put in more effort for his friends and open himself up to be trusting, just puts himself in a position where he much more easily gets used by Anders Because friends Help each other, even when the other is obviously withholding information, otherwise they might leave on a boat and never come back! Except this time it was not the boat

#and then in DAI he is like. i dont care who you are. varric called me #oh my god the orson anders friendship. i literally do not have the words just from a worldbuilding character dev pov they ruin me #orson hawke #IS THIS ANYTHING? #anders alive and well. if orson ever sees him again hes going to pretend he doesnt #this is how i get enrichmentgt from bioware games #i <3 extrapolating

[demonsfate]

i forget that i'm too autistic for reddit until i post on it again.

#✏️ - ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴏsᴛ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴏsᴛ // (ooc) #// I SSDFGDJFGNDF I JUST CANNOT GET ALONG WITH THE TEK FANDOM THERE NO MATTER HOW I TRY - #// like i pointed out about jin's tek7 outfit in tek8 and how low poly it was #// and how YES - regardless if you see it as a bad or good thing - it IS lazy #// and of course ppl pointed out my infodumping and took it as me 'raging' #// even tho i just thought pointing out the texture details was a genuinely interesting thing #// and it's like bros... it's ok to say you're a lil disappointed in something even if it's a small detail #// like that doesn't equate to you saying the game it ruined or condemning the devs or saying you can't play it bc of a small flaw #// i hate that 'infodumping' is always equated to 'caring about something too much' or 'not having a life' or 'being angry' #// it's like... sorry that i notice things and wanna point them out #// and LIKE... these posts only take MINUTES of my 14+ hour day that i'm awake #// how is that... not having a life or being sad LMAO #// tho really i do put some fault on me for continuing to argue with some ppl in the comments - should've let it be LOL #// oh well at least i didn't call 'em fucked in the head like i got called JDSFDFJFG

[terraos]

How can harry potter still even be relevant. The only good thing to ever come out of harry potter is My Immortal. You can find fantasy content with wizards literally anywhere (and probably done better too)

#save me from this hell #best friend’s boyfriend is playing hogwarts legacy and I’m like. i am trapped in a 5ft glass cube yelling and screaming #-repeating mantras to stay sane- I will not let harry potter ruin my day i will not let harry potter ruin my day i will not let harry potter #usually i really don’t care but come on ppl. Just Kidding Rowling is literally vocal about her transphobia and antisemitism #these ppl were not forced against their will to make this game and being paid by how well it sells #they’re like from a real actual company that pays them a salary. they aren’t smallscale indie devs #anyways #hi everyone i’m normal today #apologizing to everyone that follows me <3

[scalproie]

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MORTAL KOMBAT LEAK

#this was already funny so now its downright hysterical. how does this keep happening #anyway johnny being on the main game roster AND apparently a kameo as well only cement my theory that kameo figthers- #are literally the devs' way of including *everyone* without having to make an entire playable and balanced character #and it also ''confirm'' my other theory that characters from other timelines will make an appearance as kameos #like mk12 johnny getting an assist mid-fight from mk9-11 timeline johnny. yknow? #anyway other than that. 1) i literally dont care about the guests characters 2) ERMAC IS BACK BUT AT WHAT COST🥹 #(no literally at what cost. get him out the dlc paywall) #oh and also quench as well i guess... #anyway. glad the mk team doesnt have to make their game announcements and such considering people will just. find out👍 #tagging later #mortal kombat