#from any of the other players)

[mirrorhouse]

i wonder how many more people would've vehemently hated gale right off the bat on full release if his introduction conversation had stayed like this or something similar

#i wasn't realy involved in any discussions during ea but i do know a lot of people didn't trust or like gale then #but i always really loved the wind imagery he uses with his phrasing here #and the way he casually walks out of the portal like it's effortless and then stands over you literally talking down to you #in the full release your first impression of him is a guy stuck with no way to free himself without your help #then when you do help him he's very friendly and kind and doesnt come across as threatening at all. and you talk to him on level ground #even his most dismissive remark about the player's magic or lack of it just after meeting him doesn't come across as strong as this one imo #also. i have like no other clips from ea saved other than this one lol #baldur's gate #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #★

[fashion4standusers]

For anyone wondering how they would make combat moves for ASBR Abbacchio. His GHA is literally the kicking meme

Also he said it. The thing

#from the official asbr twitter #'how could you play as abbacchio he doesnt have a combat stand' past asbr players the answer is funnier than you couldve ever hoped for #asbr #all star battle r #leone abbacchio #video #not fashion #are there any other stand user ghas that just #dont use the stand #the bit in the video where he actually uses moody blues is the hha #leone and his stands narancia and mista

[flashhwing]

i love the kirkwall squad because they all have such protagonist energy. any of them could be the main character. except for varric but he did that on purpose. any of the rest of them could be the main character

#like with origins or inquisition every companion has a Plot and Character Arc #but they are all very definitely side characters #like you couldn't reframe the game from their pov and still make narrative sense #unless you were going for a side-character-as-the-main-character exploration type thing #(which is a cool perspective that i eat up every time i see it but i digress) #but the kirkwall squad all have so much going on independent of each other and the player character #you could make the game from any of their pov #and the only time that'd be out of place would be like. 'man how come my character isn't the one duelling the arishok' #this has been a post #dragon age

[elfcollector]

I feel ill. All the fools and villains who ever fell for my ploys, they're — they're here!

#gamingnetwork #vgedit #videogameedit #gamingedit #dailygaming #gameplaydaily #bg3edit #bg3 #bgedit #bg3 astarion #astarion #astarion ancunin #:( #i think this scene is so interesting and speaks to why i get so annoyed by the 'any portrayal of astarion #as having an degree of a conscience or goodness in him is stupid and woobifying. hes chaotic evil and thats IT' thing #the grief and guilt. the way he tries to talk himself into it. the way he removes HIS OWN autonomy to do it. pretends theres no other choic #esp in the context of other moments where he preens when hes called good. he LIKES being smth other than what cazador made him #but hes so SCARED. he spends this dialogue talking himself into killing them and he HAS to talk himself into it BECAUSE this kind of evil #isnt easy to him despite it all. theres still scraps of a conscience there yknow? and he hides it from himself by pretending hes less free #astarion is fun BECAUSE hes weird and contradictory and a bad person with the capacity 4 good. BECAUSE he doesnt know what he actually want #also i love the idea of him in this moment rly thinking abt the player....like whether theyre friends or romances #a player whos been really kind and loving to him...kept him safe....trusted him.... #thinking about how they let their guard down for him and how in his old life THIS would have been the life #hed been damning them to....years and centuries in a tiny cage somehow even worse than his

[luckthebard]

One of the funniest disconnects with actual play to me is how much the viewers/fandoms have a much broader awareness of everyone’s mechanics than the players themselves - and often assume for some reason that all the players have that same total awareness.

Funniest examples I can think of off the top of my head are when Laura was convinced Caleb (AC 11 wizard) had a higher AC than Yasha (AC 15 Barbarian) - likely influenced by fear for Yasha in Ashley’s absence and Yasha’s position in melee meaning she was hit more by default. Another was when the entire CR crew aside from Laura revealed in the campaign wrap-up that they seem to have spent the entirety of C2 under the impression Jester had a very high Charisma score (her CHA was 12).

#not gonna main tag this as anything because it honestly is just a fascinating disconnect for me #but I don’t trust people to not be weird #I’d also love to hear any examples from other APs if anyone’s aware #I feel like this is something far more likely to happen in dense long form campaigns #than in shorter ones though #and I guess the point I’m getting at here is that fandoms often assume the players hold an all-knowing overview POV #about everyone else’s characters #and they absolutely do not

[nadsdraws]

God does not play dice with the universe... but Metatron does

#good omens #good omens s2 #good omens season 2 #metatron #my musings #metatron the mastermind #good omens s2 spoilers #God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising #which might be compared #from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody] #to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker #in a pitch-dark room #with blank cards #for infinite stakes #with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules #and who smiles all the time. #good omens analysis

[mishapen-dear]

okay but watching pomme and richas' family growing RACE gets so intense. okay. look.

pomme: baghera, antoine, aypierre, kameto, etoiles, bad, and max (from aypierre) for parents; dapper as sibling; maxpierre twin babies for siblings. she has ten family members in total.

richas: forever, pac, mike, cellbit, felps, roier, and quackity for parents; foolish and vegetta as grandmas; and leo as an aunt. if we count bobby as richas' deceased step-brother, then richarlyson has eleven family members in total.

they both have seven parents in total.

pomme is catching up. richas its time to start whoring your dads out again. dont let her win

#maybe he'll get lucky tho and pac will come back from kidnapping with another #it would be SO funny if she overtook him and somehow got another dad tho #like after everything else that richas has going on if he lost his 'most parents' title.... itd just be real sad #poor kid #on the other hand pomme doesn't have any dead or missing family members (that she knew/was close to) so maybe she's winning anyway #qsmp #its just really really funny #i hope bad and forever kiss. i hope aypierre gets official dad status over richas also. i hope etoiles and pac get married #i want these families to converge into the biggest mass to make the most terrifying graph know to the island #note: i basically ignored all aunts/uncles because a) i forgor #and i've continued ignoring them because b) basically every player is an aunt/uncle to every egg regardless of relationship to other player

[vigilskeep]

i need to wynnepost. somebody has to

#its crazy how people will assume she is all the tropes she subverts and then ignore her #also how sympathy for circle mages’ indoctrination only lasts until they get old i guess and then fuck them #because its not as if they were ever a terrified child who’d never had anything better than a single templar’s mildest kindness and any kind #of home even if it was the tower #so an orphan kid who had no memory of anything but scurrying between farmsteads and hiding in barns #didnt want to leave. what a shock. you guys dont get the place comfort has in keeping circle mages complicit #so it’s violent and terrible and you never have privacy and your children get murdered and you’re always watched and hated #its also a warm bed and community and a chance to succeed #do you honestly think every kid from fucking THEDAS knows theres anything better out there #that doesnt make the circle good. it makes it horrific that they prey on vulnerable kids to teach them the world hates them #and only the circle is ‘safe’ #i just think there should be some sympathy for those kids and what they grow up into #its easy for the player to walk in and say their character would hate the circle and never have listened to the templars #its easy for say an amell or even a surana with a family back home to not fear what they left behind #wynne genuinely thinks without the circle mages would all be murdered and she’ll fight and die protecting her fellow mages #from the right of annulment #yes its a flaw that she goes on to teach others the circle must be tolerated and that is precisely how the circle is perpetuated ove #over generations #but its amazing to me to just act like its her fault #well. this is more tags than i expected it to be

[agapemoon]

Ok but are people saying that no one cares about q!Quackity for real? I understand q!Quackity feeling that way because he sabotages himself and feels guilty about everything he’s done but literally everyone cares about him even if he can't see it !

They might think he is insane but at the end of the day everyone still appreciates him and proof of that is q!Vegetta comforting him for not being “invited” to the wedding even though both q!Roier and q!Cellbit DID invite him still knowing that he could ruin their wedding. Another one is q!Forever keeping an eye on q!Quackity so he doesn’t get kidnapped when Cucurucho went to talk to him back then when they first kidnapped q!Cellbit (which btw they didn’t kidnap q!Quackity but q!Foolish thought they did so he told q!Forever and everyone was down to look for him as well). Another one is q!Cellbit giving him 1% of his custody so he doesn’t feel alone when he told him how much he misses Tilin and wishes he could take care of Tallulah or when q!Roier, q!Bbh and q!Foolish helped him build “La vecindad” or when q!Etoiles kept asking him repeatedly if he was okay and if he wanted to go do dungeons with him or just yesterday when q!Jaiden saw him go with Cucurucho at the end and thought it was weird and later she told q!Philza about it and both are now very worried about him.

I don't understand why people are talking like everyone in that Island does not care about him. Again, I understand why q!Quackity doesn’t because he just sees his own perspective but if you see others' pov is CLEAR how everyone genuinely cares about him even if they don’t trust him entirely. And that's what makes his character tragic, the fact that the Island is full of residents who care about each other regardless if they suspect someone among them but q!Quackity feels like they are all against him because that's what he thinks.

q!Quackity feels alone because he is the one believing he is alone, not because everyone else leaves him alone. He is the definition of self-sabotage and I do feel sorry for him but let’s not act like him and believe that no one in that Island cares for him or that no one will care about his dissapearence because it's simply not true. If no one noticed he dissapeared earlier is because it was in the middle of their friend's wedding and once again he decided to isolate himself while everyone else were celebrating.

I cant stress this enough because everyone in that Island would literally try to save him even if maybe some of them might not trust him or whatever, even if he once threatened to kill the eggs and even if he just keeps commiting actions that hurts everyone around him including himself. All of them care for him and want to believe he is not bad, they try to understand him to justify why he might be acting the way he is because for them q!Quackity is one of them too until proven otherwise.

#qsmp #quackity #philza #jaiden #seeing so many people being ‘no one cares about him !!!’ ‘Everyone hates him bc he is misunderstood!’ Like ?????? #my other cubitos are so lovely and they cant hate anyone to that point im sorry #In any case the only reason they might have not find out about him dissapearing is bc he doesnt log in much (but thats out of rp so) #dont know why so many people prefers to believe that bc players dont understand q!quakity it means they dont like him #when thats not true AT ALL. they dont understand him but still they want to HELP. so idk maybe watch other povs or clips from other povs #idk if i wanna tag every single name i mentionaed here bc honestly is too much #cellbit #roier #bbh #foolish #alessa’s posts

[ourlittleuluru]

Okay, I did see the announcements for the new banners on the day itself but didn't have time to post anything about it...

I do see some people asking why no Xavier kisses but, hear me out. Imagine no Xavier kisses for all the cards. But then his birthday one comes out, and it ends up being the most sweetest of kisses? Man.

Can say goodbye to my soul o7

Anyway, the amount of comfiness with the new card is just 👌 It's so domestic, I am lovin' it~ (´▽`ʃ♡ƪ)

Look at how cute he is, leaning on the knees and just staring. Ugh. Muh heart.

Aside from that. This bunny. Look at it. It's even more cute. And the rendering on the embroidery of the cloth??? Dayum, is the rendering of the game insaneeeeee

Please let this be a merch I can get irl somewhere. It's so cuteeee and it's got the blue eyes too 😭

(Also the new battle pass... and it's Xavier too. RIP. Imma pray hard I get his gacha with the 75% c': But i think it's all used up with the new FF7 rebirth Kuji atm... I really don't need more money flying off at this moment)

#xavier love and deepspace #love and deepspace #xavier #shen xinghui #churambles #despite all the hype #I really hope PG does implement the suggestions for the gacha and the scheduling of events tho... #there's WAY too many back to back gacha banners #i get there's 3 LIs #but it's way too quick and often it's tiring #even as a player who's solely and purely pulling any Xavier banners and skipping all others #it's still too soon and i can feel the 2nd hand exhaustion from the other players #but i mean the current mini game events are all great tho #super cute and simple to play #straight forward #could have more interactions to do in the events but for an otome that i think??? is aimed a lot at working OLs #it's pretty well done

[ty-bayonet-betteridge]

3l!grian is frequently depicted as a tragic figure and sometimes i wonder if we even watched the same series

#like yes he is tragic. every character in the series is tragic but i think hes easily the least tragic of the winners #(except maybe cleo. i have my own thoughts about how cleos victory plays into her core themes and why its not as joyous or triumphant as #cleo the players and the fandom at large make it seem that i will have to make a real post about at some point) #grian dies Laughing. he smiles and calls it a dual victory before the final fight. his last words are “its been amazing.” #to me Grians arc is about how he came in with this sense of mirth. had it ripled away by the reality when his joke gets Scar killed. #and then rediscovers it as he learns that the horror of their circumstances doesn't need to keep him from delight #plus also ive never seen a man more delighted to explode three of his friends #ill also bring up that Martyns lore has Grian involved in the games explicitly to COMBAT the angst #that Grians inherent silliness and joy makes the players less hopeless as they meet their endings #and theres obviously parts of martyns lore i can take or leave but this is one area where Eyes and Ears lines up very well with what actions #the characters take and so im happy to bring it up #unlike other parts such as “limlife pearl and cleo retained more trauma between seasons than any player has before” #which i do directly refute as it doesn't seem to line up with the way the characters act and the story plays out #thats for another post though #my point here is 3l grian was having the time of his life and i think there are some fanon interpretationd that disregard that #which theyre free to do im definitely someone who has ignored canon plenty of times in the past (glances at worm) #but i think this is the sort of thing that makes the canon more interesting and compelling #anyway. um. rambled longer than i meant to there #grian #trafficblr #3rd life #3rd life smp #3lsmp

[cat-mentality]

Pol remembers everything.

He doesn't speak about it of course, not when he realizes how unfriendly those new Islanders are about the Federation, but he knows very well who he is and what happened before.

The ice was.... Uncomfortable, not exactly his desired outcome for any of them, but given the circumstances Pol admits it could have been worse, it's just generally better to not think about those things at all, the ice happened but it's over now.

The more they forget about what happened the better.

None of the others seem to remember anything, a pity really since Pol would be interested in talking about some things with young Nikki or with Bagi, Bagi in particular used to lead some very interesting missions on her days, but both of them don't seem to recall him or their previous job.

Well, a shame really. But he supposes that the Federation must have their reason for wiping their memories. Far from him to try to insert himself into things that are none of his business.

Pol is retired. As much as one can be while still living on the Island at least, and he is happy with how things are going now, with being left to do his own things while occasionally being called to touch up on some previous jobs or to create something new, the excitement of being needed never fading away.

Pol remembers everything even if he is not going to disclose that information to anyone.

Tubbo doesn't remember anything.

He can't.

They wouldn't allow it.

It's too dangerous, too volatile, too unpredictable.

It's been many years, decades, so much that most of the workers, even the high ranking ones, do not know about what happened. The ones who did, well they are mostly long gone, destroyed alongside all of the written reports.

The Federation went to great lengths to erase Tubbo from memory.

They couldn't allow him to be remembered by anyone, let alone himself. Many had argued that he should have been killed, others that he should have been buried somewhere else, somewhere no one would ever be able to find him again, but those had lost- He was too valuable, the ones with the final say had determined, his skills unmatched, they couldn't risk losing him and not finding someone to take his place.

Replacing him isn't the same as replacing the workers. 

So Tubbo was allowed to live.

Frozen, his memories wiped, all traces of his existence erased from records, most of those who knew him, knew of him, erased alongside it, some few, too valuable for the same fate, embraced the offer to be made to forget instead.

(Pol looks at Tubbo and frowns.

He knows this kid.

There is something disturbingly familiar about him, about his smiles, about his loud voice, about his joy and his laughter.

Something even more familiar about his rage. About the craziness shining in bright eyes, in the smile that shows too many teeth, in the easiness he can craft machines of mass destruction, in how willing he is to put them to use.

Pol asks Cucurucho about it, once. 

The bear does not answer him directly but Pol is not stupid. He can understand the "stop asking" left implicitly in the message.)

Tubbo doesn't remember anything.

But Cucurucho does.

He looks at the boy and a part of him, the part that is capable of feeling, burns with anger.

He remembers what that boyish charm hides.

He remembers the devil hidden in his smile.

He remembers how hard it was to put a stop to him the first time.

And he hates that he was brought back with the others, that the higher ups cannot seem to want to give up on someone they know they cannot predict or control.

It has to be different this time.

He needs to feel fear, he needs to be afraid of the Federation and it's power, he needs to be beaten down so hard that he could never consider getting up again.

The Federation needs his skills, not his spirit.

How unfortunate then, that this time Tubbo is walking a path where the Federation is his enemy. When he was their employee, when he was one of the higher ranking members despite his young age, he was a weapon, a loose cannon that they could barely keep in check, too dangerous to let loose, too valuable to kill, too unstable to be properly efficient, but he was still bound to them.

It's worse now.

Cucurucho looks at the bright eyes and defiant smile and plots. He keeps his gun closer than usual, and satisfaction bleeds on his smile when the light on those mismatched eyes dims just a bit, when hesitation is made known even if for a second, when he freezes, when he flinches upon seeing him.

Good.

The boy is as defiant as always but there are cracks on him now and not having his memories means he lost the ability to fall back on his arrogance, on the acknowledgement that he was too valuable. He is vulnerable now, just a reckless young man who can be broken. Who will be.

Cucurucho looks at a worker with a bleeding heart and questionable actions and pretends he doesn't see anything. Better the mechanic sees them as equals, as things to care about, than as disposable pieces of a machine, as enemies.

Better he has something to lose.

Cucurucho looks at a lost child and his smile gets wider, showing teeth. He feels satisfied with a job well done, with how things have fallen into place at least.

Tubbo will fall in line. He will behave, like he has never done before, because if he doesn't.... Well a little collateral damage can be easily justified, no one will really miss a broken worker or a spare egg.

#i 'cooked' this from thin air this is like a kids play dough meal #it's real in literally no place but my own mind #but i REALLY enjoy the idea that the frozen players were all ex Federation workers #and they were not frozen as a punishment but maybe to save them from something more dangerous #not tubbo tho #that was totally a punishment #also particular headcannon of mine that carre and bagi were frozen in different moments than the others #and tubbo was frozen before any of them #like WAY earlier like when Pol was young type of early #qsmp tubbo #qsmp theory #qsmp #qsmp polispol #also theory may be a stretch

[aroaceacacia]

i have a parasocial relationship with everybody who's ever uploaded an MCC vod to archive.org

#i saw an archivist in my youtube shorts and pogged bc i recognjzed the name #several vods are labeled unknown but i think i know who uploaded them based on the formatting of the item #they are my brothers in arms my comrades. names on a screen and datapoints that become meaningful #shadow is bored but loves smajor and they loved him enough to download vods from three years ago to keep them safe #clem is a long time dedicated wilbur soot enjoyer and still to this day keeps track of wilbur content #the finnster enjoyers who upload no other mcc except finnster. the guy who saved every video from technoblade ever #(but didnt save any of his streams) #idk. as a pet project (uploading all of mcc to archive.org) ive had to keep track of every mcc upload on there & i notice who does what #and it fascinates me #wilbur is currently the most saved mcc player; he has 43 uploads that ive found #(many of which are duplicate uploads) #some people are dedicated to players and some to the event itself #im winning the numbers btw. currently 247 uploads (or about 27% of all mcc uploads to archive) #bearvocalizations

[blueskittlesart]

i am an athena cykes defender forever and ever until the day i die but god. somewhere out there there is a universe where apollo justice got actual follow through and it kills me that i am not living in it

#sorry. i am replaying apollo justice. and it has SO MUCH POTENTIAL. #kills me that we never get any real answers about kristoph obv but its not even just that #klavier as a rival was so interesting. because hes basically already at the state that you're trying to get all the other prosecutors in th #series to in terms of winning vs truth. hes really well rounded as a prosecutor in a way that you as the player arent used to #and that was an interesting departure from the formula for aa in general but then they slapped him with a whole DIFFERENT problem #with kristoph and phoenix. and then they just. do not resolve it whatsoever. #even though apollo is literally right there as a perfect little avenue for resolution. and i KNOW that they WOULD HAVE resolved it #if only they would have MADE THE SECOND GODDAMN GAME #PLUS the secondary conflict of systemic injustice within the system and phoenix's role in that. TRUCY. #god fuck ace attorney why are you so good and so bad at the same time #what we really should have gotten is an apollo justice duology and THEN an athena cykes solo game #where apollo shows up exclusively as a background character and athena actually gets to be the playable attorney in more than 2 cases. #ugh. whatever #personal

[thronealigned]

iomedae girl i think you're inheriting the wrong things. girl i think there's a cycle

#also something about how iomedae was originally a paladin of arazni and galfrey was originally a paladin of aroden #and the hand of the inheritor was originally a servant of ragathiel #i've gotta get my hands on the original wotr adventure path books at some point #because the wiki does Not elaborate much on the circumstances of ttrpg-galfrey becoming iomedae's new herald #it just says she does it #nor does it elaborate on what happened to inheribro either #inheribro is a nickname i picked up from reddit. sorry #i'm assuming though it's the same as in the crpg- he's a miniboss and then either dies or is healed but doesnt return to his station #(unless youre on the angel path in which you Do convince him to keep being iomedae's herald) #well i mean it's in past tense i guess that's clear enough #anyway idk where i'm going with this. just a thought i had.. endless stream of servants replacing each other #my bet's on iomedae dying in the godsrain stuff btw this is mostly why. if i were writing it i couldnt resist #especially with arazni being the new addition to the core 20!!!! not that she'll be directly replacing the dead god like iomedae did aroden #but still. you understand you see the vision. i'll be sad though not getting to see what arazni & iomedae's dynamic as both full gods would #be.... not especially attached to any guess though i'm not suuuuper invested in pf2e #or pf1e/the actual ttrpg in general. on account of not being a ttrpg player (as much as i would like to be) #i just read the wiki & archives of nethys & the paizoblog stories #anyway goodnight for real #sorry the image formatting sucks btw

[ziskeyt]

thinking about how, in a lot of fics i’ve read with BotW Link he has a fear of caves. Or, well, trauma around them due to, you know, being dead inside one for a century and locked away.

and then in TotK the world collapsed and suddenly there are caves everywhere. But, they aren’t just new caverns, many of them have ruins inside and I just. I know Link is ~supposed to be a blank slate character~ and all that rot. But like, if this game full of caves and darkness below is supposed to be a sequel to BotW — I dunno. It just feels lacking that we get nothing, no reaction to caves in general, none to what happened to the Shrine, none when you discover what is below the Shrine. I mean, the way they did Link’s reactions to memories in BotW was laughable anyway and obviously I am craving for far more than nintendo will ever give — but what is courage without fear?

#Totk #Botw #Loz #tears of the kingdom #breath of the wild #these thoughts brought to you by: i am trying to sleep but my throat wants to choke me #And like i haven’t played any of the other games aside from link’s awakening #But i feel like you can understand fear in the child who’s paternal figure dies and is then sent out to fight #And fear in the child who’s younger sister is stolen away #But these kids have courage (and recklessness and foolishness but *courage*) to try and find their sister and try and stop more from dying #Like their tree dad did #We the player may feel fear of the screaming gloom hands or the ticking guardian laser #Or the darkness of the depths pre lightroots (tho i should do that again now i fixed my tv) #But even with no memories this link still has fears. Or. It is reasonable to think he should #Yet in game? #His courage is just he has to do this #He has to fight he has to continue he has to win #I love botw/totk link for what i have put into him but i just wish nintendo weren’t such fucking cowards