#i also refuse to play the actual games

[ace-of-d1am0nds]

WHY DOES THE WORLD OF DARKNESS HAVE SO MUCH LORE???? HOW DOES IT HAVE SO MUCH LORE????? WHO IS WRITING ALL OF THIS FUCKING LORE???? HOLY SHIT IM GONNA LOSE MY MIND

#every time i think i have a grip on some aspect of this universe #i find out theres like an actual entire history surrounding that sect #like the shit between the tremere and the tzimisce and the salubri and GALCONDA #straight up how am i supposed to learn all of this shit #i also refuse to play the actual games #my computer cannot handle that #la by night #labn #ny by night #nybn #vtm #vampire the masquerade #world of darkness #wod

[spacedlexi]

i thought we were gonna kiss up here are you still not over your dead girlfriend

#the walking dead game #twdg #violentine #clementine twdg #violet twdg #theres no casual explanation for clems reaction to that why did she look so upset #wide eyed middle distance stare brows drawn mouth open girl please relax #if your friend was wistfully thinking of their dead gf why would you be upset by that 🤨 hmm interesting #part of violets route will be about how she feels she failed minnie and so refuses to fail clementine and continuously makes that choice #and i still have to hear people yap about how she never got over minnie bro i swear some people are playing with their eyes and ears closed #i think her complicated relationship with her not dead not ex is fun and interesting actually and she tells clem not to worry Immediately #i just like poking fun at my girl for being a little jealous 😏 this and the way she looks at them hugging in the woods. i know what you are #her immediate reaction to seeing the v+m heart is also questionable girl why are you making those faces #spaced art 2024

[shivroy]

chloeee

#life is strange #lis #chloe price #been playing it lately mostly for the backgrounds (LOL i want to be in oregon. and am not) #im not gonna say this on insta because i dont want to offend their tender hearts but good god the writing in this game sucks nards #its like funny. #chloe especially. girls who suck #in a way that is just like. so at odds with having a play experience thats good #but i sort of love her not in spite of the shitty writing but because of it #sometimes i gotta love a girl because her whole character is YOU SUCK you REFUSE to better yourself throughout the course of anything ever #bae! #im half attached to her and half like What is with you stop actually #also i love how dated the game feels now #every girls fashion........ every guy too you know what #art #digital art #texture #doodle #sketch #life is strange fanart #lis fanart

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

really wish my one friend would quit flirting with me. and trying to goad me into hanging out more. and assigning us fictional characters that are oh-so-coincidently either couples or with romantic tension. and then interrupting our gameplay to ask me repeatedly if I think they’re “like us” (which they rarely are…). and matching my icon on discord without asking (again, usually by insinuating a couple connection). and giving me random things I do not want and did not ask to receive (and then forcing me to take them???).

#storyrambles #it’s not creepy. just for context. it’s just irritating because I’ve told this person repeatedly that I’m not interested in romance. #this person is also naturally a huge romantic so it is next to impossible to tell whether it’s actual flirtation or just flirting for fun #flirting for fun is cool. I wouldn’t mind that. but if I do it once this person will take that as an invitation to do it an excessive amoun #but yeah after being given 12 roses out of the blue when I said ‘no don’t buy me flowers’. there’s only so many things that can mean #‘it’s nice to see your face you always cover it!’ …I’m masking. because of covid #I’m narrating a game and suddenly ‘I like hearing your voice I should call you every day so I can hear it for 10 minutes’. …no. #‘you have to take the snack I brought you know it’s rude to refuse a gift’ I have never refused a gift. It is rude. But also I didn’t ask. #‘you know this game is one you can play without talking so we can play more often!’ we already play games once a week for usually 3 hours. #‘but it’s not talking so it’s less social energy’ no. that is not how it works. #sorry for the rant im just. tired. #you know those people who are so pleasant to hang out with and then they try way too hard #and that’s actually what makes things awkward? rather than when they’re just being themselves? #yeah. that’s this friend here. #usually I go along with the bit but when I can never tell when the bit is actually a bit #and you insist on me taking on the ‘girl role’ for most of them #I am not going to play along. #UGH don’t get me started on the ‘you’re cute when you’re flustered’ #I wasn’t even flustered. I was trying to do mental math while running on four hours of sleep and he was staring directly at me #it’s uncomfortable. #also. I never want to hear that again. fuck. ‘you’re cute when you’re angry’ ‘you’re cute when you’re upset’ ALL THE FUCKING TIME AS A KID #will I be so cute after I kick you in the nuts? will I? #(for clarity I don’t want to kick him. I want to kick those other people.) #I need a lot of alone time. I really do. I can do 3 hours and then I will be drained for the rest of the day. #‘how did you grow up? did you not talk to your mom for more than 3 hours a day?’ #first of all. that’s different? #secondly we actually regularly do separate things without talking to each other. or go in separate rooms to take some time to ourselves #also I don’t have to be on high alert for if I’m going to be flirted with. so. #ugh. I like him as a friend. I really do. I know this all makes it seem like the opposite. I try so hard to be as nice as possible. #but UGHHHHHH

[tlgtw]

MGSV really is *so* misogynistic it is honestly hard to believe. It has ONE named female character, just one. And holy shit, the things they make that single woman do.

I don't know what happened. Or how Kojima thought what we was doing was defensible.

I could just link to the introduction of the SKULL snipers from Mission 28 Code Talker but even that I feel is so unbelievable to see with your own eyes that it would exit the mind as soon as it stopped playing.

Literally every criticism made during that era toward's this game is accurate. Every single one.

It might legit be the WORST example of "male gaze," literally literally ever. Out of everything.

If MGSV had outright no women in it whatsoever it would be better than what this is.

The cutscene for when Big Boss comes to Mother Base after not showering was what sealed it for me.

And the fact that there were people back then who thought they could defend this perhaps makes it even more deranged.

#mgsv #completely incoherent post #I love love love playing this game but holy shit #It is fucking unbearable. #Play it on your computer with the mod 'Take Me of the Grid + No More Timers + Free Deployment' installed #The game is legitimately hot garbage without it. #what the fuck happened to result in the difference between how woman are treated in this game and then... Death Stranding????? #Wtf??????? #its inexplicable #Kojima; as skilled a designer and director as he certainly is #is absolutely also a misogynist #I think MGSV is the hard fucking proof frankly #You can't make this. AND whine about how people refused to like it. That shit definitely counts augh my god #still a completely incoherent post #aough #i cant even put the words together #the actual moment to moment core gameplay is so fun its ridiculous #but oh my god everything else is SO so bad #how can I even like it? #I don't know. I do. but somehow maybe I should not ldjfjskjfsjkdf #dfjkbgjkdbflglbksbkfgbjkdsfbgbdfgbkjbjkdfbjkg #and it's still stupid as hell that you can't fulton yourself like you do in Peace Walker. Literally just to make you waste more GMP #to force you to depend on the online features. Which gives you millions of GMP at the drop of a hat #Evil game

[itspileofgoodthings]

that Bobby Bones interview with Taylor where he claims that the cookies she gave him made him sick and she tells him to stop lying is my Roman Empire because I can’t stop thinking about how, while keeping it still lighthearted enough for interview etiquette, she unequivocally shuts down his gaslighting and despicable toad behavior.

#it’s that part of Taylor that’s just a steel wall #and it’s why women love her so much #because a LOT of women would have taken it. would have felt forced to. to apologize or concede or play into his little mind games #not all. But honestly. A lot and so watching her NOT do it is so healing. #she just absolutely refuses to budge. there is a part of her that looks bad behavior right in the eye and says fuck you #but calmly. and it’s the fact that she’s that but also the glitter and the love of winter/baking/etc. and the extreme girliness #like I just. it’s soooooooooooo healing/cathartic/EVERYTHING. #in her actual interview she also called him out for calling himself a nice guy and then denying he ever said that which was also iconic #also I hate him so much I want to fight him in a denny’s parking lot and then force him to do hours of community service #Bobby bones is what I mean when I say men need to be forced to till the land #like. This is a kind of man who will not learn until he has been broken and then re-moulded by honest physical toil #instead he has a podcast oh I am going to be sick

[mothbeasts]

ok since you're the fabby expert riddle me this bc i've been thinking abt this all day for some reason. what do u think like. her childhood/young adulthood was like. i rotate her in my head all the time but it is SO difficult to think abt her outside of the state she's currently in now. i know she didn't spawn upon this earth like that. but that's the only way i can picture it so i need insider intel on this subject

SO glad you asked because i think about this extensively. disclaimer that this probably does not line up with Actual Canon it's just my fun little version of events that happens in my brain.

With that out of the way. What was younger fabby like?

For starters. she was 100% a theater kid and finds it embarrassing as an adult. But you cannot stop being a theater kid. Ever.

Honestly. I feel like she was fairly normal as a kid. Maybe a bit TOO interested in morbid things like poison and murder but honestly. That feels Normal. She would've been the kind of kid who like enacted the strangest scenarios and drama with dolls I think.

Things get interesting at around her young adult era. See, in my mind, a lot of her issues started at around that time. Her general constant stress and poor sleep schedule were Definitely worse when she started university. But she powered through (mostly on spite) to get her engineering degree anyways. And then got a job with Zoraxis. Which in no way helped anything ever. In my mind she also got a minor in an art field - not entirely sure what but that's just how I imagine it going. Probably something fashion related, if we wanna take that watch poster into account.

Another thing in my mind is that she was far more reserved in. i wanna say the late teens-early 20s range. Quiet, not really drawing attention. Very absorbed in her studies. Her turn towards evil science was kind of simultaneous with her becoming more like the Fabricator we see in the games; by the time she's gotten a cozy spot near the top of Zoraxis, she's got her act perfected. But the perfect evil science persona DOES take time to craft and that wasn't really the direction she had intended to go at first. She started off just wanting to go into normal engineering or something. Even into her early days with Zoraxis, she was a bit eccentric perhaps but not quite at evil science level for some time.

I think her interest in poisons and such started to take a turn for the worse when she got access to university level chemistry labs. And then her engineering education obviously went towards murder.

The summary is she was honestly Pretty Normal in my mind up until she started working for Zoraxis. After that she realized she actually thinks the whole evil thing is fun and she wants in on it.

HONORARY OTHER HEADCANON MENTION: I tend to draw her with a prosthetic arm. Why, you ask? Lab Incident. She accidentally blew herself up really bad. This happened shortly after the start of her career at Zoraxis.

#fabricator ieytd #related to the first point. in my mind shes the kind of person who refuses to say 'macbeth'. idk why it came to me in a vision or something #this isn't even touching on my transgender beam attack headcanons. but i get oddly embarrassed about those so i will refrain i think #something something the mortifying ordeal of. projecting somewhat. #i will say that in myyyy mind at least shes trans. only really transitioned after going off to university. #also need to note that if any of this is contradicted in the third game anywhere. i have not gotten to play it yet be niceys to me #gestures vaguely. idk how much of this is like vaguely coherent rambling and how much actually makes sense #words hard i am just rotating fabby in my mind like shes in a microwave #timeline is like. #she's normal > she's Stressed but Normal > she starts getting a bit strange > zoraxis hires her > oh okay shes just killing now. cool. #her descent into villainy was honestly really fast. #like. she didnt realize her job was evil science at first but the second it clicked she fully embraced it. her evil arc

[sweetcitrusboi]

Watching gaming dudebros have full-on heart attacks and stroking out over tasm2 not winning or any of their basic ass shooting games and running around talking about how “nobody played Alan Wake 2 or BG3” when in fact a shitload of people did play both games and yall refuse to branch out and play other games and yall live in a bubble of just Fortnite, Cod, and other games just like it, and now you’re going out of your way to be unhinged individuals online about it instead of showing good sportsmanship and congratulating the amazing games and teams behind them that did win an award.

#also I’m like the biggest spiderman fan out there but ofc bg3 sweep had to come through but even im not sitting here screaming over tasm2 #i feel like dudebros crying about their games not winning when they single handedly refuse to interact in fandom spaces and support content #is the main reason why ur games didn’t win bc y’all don’t interact with anything outside of the game #it was the dedicated fanbases and the ppl who loved these companies and the actors/writers/producers/etc tht got their deserved awards #bc they actually care !!! #yall don’t gaf about anything outside of just gameplay yall sit in isolated bubbles and act like every other game is “mid” and non existent #bc u refuse to interact and yalls weird thing with specific genre games tht I won’t get into rn bc tht will go into weird masculinity play #in gaming spaces but #stop being weird ass adults online bc your game didn’t win #just saw a shit load of comments admitting they “weren’t voting” for anything while pissing bc bg3 got goty like make it make sense???? #don’t call something mid or bash the va who rightfully got an award when u showed no support for ur game #like looking at half of these tweets and corny ass dramatic reaction videos by grown ass men is embarrassing #I’m so glad that I’m an actually a well adjusted adult bc I couldn’t be acting like some of yall fr #bg3 #alan wake 2 #goty 2023

[dirt-str1der]

Love characterising nishikiyama as a booze hound drug hound meth addict high every day body mass 75% alcohol hands constantly shaking literally spacing out while driving fifty over the speed limit using elderly folk as speedbumps one hand on the wheel and one hand free to do more drugs and coming into work while functionally deaf and blind and he is still leagues more competent at his job than kiryu

#Yakuza loveblog #i dont talk about nishikiyama enough because im kazamapilled and hate him a little bit but im also kiryupilled and love him so much so you #see my problem? like i adore when nishiki is just. better in every way than kiryu and nobody ever sees that because theyre all too busy #sucking kiryus cock like okay nishiki had the rest of his life planned out when he was twenty and he was an extremely successful criminal #and getting himself noticed in many many circles then kiryu steps outside and gets into a street fight immediately and the entire tojo clan #surrounds him to throw cash at him like nishiki was actually doing so well for himself before his life was ruined. nothing is his fault #like i love just accepting that nishiki has one hell of a substance abuse problem and nobody cares enough about him to talk to him about it #and kiryu thinks its normal because hes the only one who can see that nishikis doing some great work out there so he must be doing #everything right. inconceivable that nishiki has any sort of ‘problem’ hes the real screwup and kiryu knows he makes life harder for himself #but he refuses to change because hes convinced that thats the only thing hes good at. like i believe that nishiki has a coke snorting #mechanic in game like harry db and without his coke buff he cant do as much damage like with it his output is on par with kiryus whos just #been blessed since birth by the violence gods. anyway kiryu is the only person in the world who thinks that nishiki is great do you get it #nishiki has lived his entire life in kiryus shadow and he doesnt care that kiryu has a natural charisma that he will never have. he has to #get out there every single day networking and socialising and hustling and nonstop landing interviews with cool magazines to get his name #out in the world while kazama takes kiryu out and drags him by the elbow to meet people like this is my son kiryu who has every disease and #everyone claps and cheers like i cannot stress enough how on top of the game nishiki is compared to kiryu. he has a car. kiryu doesnt even #have his own lighter. they are not on the same playing field and yet nishikis always trailing behind him because opportunity is always #knocking at kiryus doorstep whether he likes it or not and nishiki gets fed scraps and nothing else and hes the one with ambition he wants #the view on top and most importantly he wanted his brother there with him but nobody ... likes him ... nobody likes nishiki nobodys in his #corner he onky had kiryu and when he lost him it was quite literally him against the world. it always made me laugh how at the end of yk1 #harukas paying her respects at nishikis grave when the only time he ever cared about her was because he wanted her little pendant and he #(actually fucked how alone nishiki was he didnt even have his own fucking men to rely on he was basically working alone with someone he knew #was using him like ??? he was fucking desperate) anyway i really love to think that kiryu being nishikis only friend and the last person in #the world who thought kindly of him (barring like ... kashiwagi) was grieving terribly over his death and haruka being a sensitive and #sweet little girl took the initiative to ask about nishiki and i think kiryu would tell her stories every night of the kind of stuff he and #nishikiyama would get up to when they were her age. he would tell her how amazing nishiki was and how he always looked out for him how he #took care of his sister and how he would always be the one to remind them of impending birthdays and the like. nishiki cared about the #little things .. and he made kiryu want to care about them too but theres just something different between them because nishikis always #been a better person than him .. and he would tell haruka in a voice that sounded like he was begging her to understand that nishiki wasnt a #bad person.. though he did bad things he was a good man and he still wishes with all his heart that he could have done more to save him ...

[whatimdoing-here]

Last two games of the season for the boys today.

A's poor team lost all but one. They looked v cold. Because it was.

T's team tied to get second. T scores two goals and made a pretty epic save (also let in two goals).

Proud of both of them.

#m isnt used to sports stuff? #one of the (parent volunteer) coaches made their son cry unfortunately #took all his frustrations out on him #m said he considered talking to him after the game #and while m is right that it's not healthy psychologically or anything for the kid #talking to him won't do a damn thing #the coach is actually really good especially at practice #and the kid was playing fairly well #and after that incident the kid was watching his every step #but i am also used to years of coaches yelling at me? #doesnt make it right #but i also dont know how to explain it #i consider coaching again sometimes #but i don't want to split this team #some of these parents are SO ROUGH and loud and pressuring their kids #there are ways to coach without doing that #you can teach and be supportive and still win #i like a's coaches #also this would be fixed if we switched to club because paid coaches #but i refuse to pay that much right now #phew sorry

[fakeasmr]

What are you doing between the 13th and the 15th? (aka the times when you're not gonna be able to play Lies of P because you didn't want to buy the version that let you play it early.)

Same as everyone who paid extra: not playing it because the early version doesn't come out until the 16th

#pretty damn rich of google to pretend the game comes out on the 16th #if you have to pay extra to get it then no it doesn't #I'll happily play it on the actual release date when all the guides are out cuz I'm gonna need them #also i refuse to support such a practice #they are 100% doing this to pressure people with m-f jobs who probably won't have time to play it during the week #and don't want to wait until the weekend to play it #if the game is ready on saturday then just release it on saturday nothing is stopping you but greed

[dravencroft]

Ever since his Embrace into the Giovanni clan, Antonio Bernini has never been alone. Ghosts, spirits and other mysterious entities seem to have chosen his body and mind as a bridge between their incorporeal existence and our world. As time passes by, keeping himself sane is becoming harder and harder for the vampire - and an eternity of madness seems to be just one step away from him.

#dravensart #Vampire the Masquerade #Vampire: the Masquerade #VtM #VtM OC #Giovanni #Giovanni Clan #Giovanni OC #vampire #vampire OC #World of Darkness #original character #digital art #I'm glad I managed to finish this before the end of the year ^ ^ last drawing of 2022! #I've wanted to give Antonio a good redesign for a while since I had created him and his sister on a whim #now I'm working on his story and I'd love to actually get to play as him in a game someday #(also yeah it's Giovanni; not Hecata. I'll live and die by V20 and refuse to touch V5 with a ten foot pole.) #Antonio

[gale-dekarios]

had a dream that gale made lae'zel cockwarm his mirror image, and i-- okay. 🥴

#the tomes #i played way too much bg3 last night #(i was romancing lae'zel but broke it off for gale) #(and i just got his astral sea scene) #the way he pulled up her leg will forever be seared into my memory thank you brain #for some reason she was trying to hunt cazador?? #but in a way where like the threat was to her #(i also decided to be just friends with astarion so the brain was really making the rounds) #and gale didn't want her to for some reason #i think he thought it was too dangerous #so he was trying to fuck her dumb #and much like how she would actually react! it did not work! #but she refused to fight him bc this was also somehow between a rogue-like and an assassins creed game #idk man dreams are weird

[thisgodwontforgiveyou]

i honestly would consider vtmb a pretty mid game were it not for the malkavian thing like not just that it is by far the best way to play the game but also the fact that none of it makes any sense unless youve already played as a diffferent clan

#like vv goes from being such a less than n othing waste of time to one of the most compelling characters in the game #literally just because she refuses to actually have a personality in front of you unless youre a malkavian #i mean the best npc character is also a malkavian its literlaly just some shit troika loves so much #that they dedicated an entire game to catering to the concept to the point of forcing yout o play as a non malkavian #just so yo ucould understand how much everybody who isnt a malkavian sucks for not being one

[hejustcancelledit]

If I have to see more of those Kaiser bubbles im gonna throw myself out of a window

#im sure people will still love shitting on supports who pick enchanters #my god this is fucking criminal how can you play support professionally and be so bad at enchanter skillshots and positioning #ITS LITERALLY YOUR JOB #im going on a joker arc against “engage focused” support players #i actually think theyre just bad but engage supports are more exciting to watch so people refuse to acknowledge it #trymbi is a free agent btw #also renata doesnt count as enchanter i dont see pros use her e towards their allys ever #rant #lol esports #live game

[evilkitten3]

btw i decided to restart my undertale replay bc i wanted to play through in japanese (both the practice and out of curiosity) and. i gotta say the way they handled the fonts for sans and papyrus was not what i was expecting

#undertale #i don't know what i was expecting tbh #just. not that i guess? #i like it but it's a tad disorienting #and sometimes sans' dialogue is a bit hard to read #it's also somewhat jarring to me to have sans clearly being the older brother #my hc is he's actually the younger one #but it's kinda adorable regardless #also i really like how the japanese version has been using kanji so far #it feels very easy to subscribe to the ''chara does the flavor text'' hc imo #it would also make frisk seem young enough to struggle with kanji #but anything they hear or might be being read to them is in almost entirely in kana which is neat #although this theory would mean that chara refused to read them the signs in the colored switches puzzle.... #also playing through while actively thinking about what the characters are saying is. interesting #like y'know how towards the end of the true pacifism route toriel scolds asgore for his inaction? #i just realized she does the same damn thing. she could've destroyed the exit to the ruins before frisk caught up to her #or before they even found the house or before they even fell into the underground at all #it's interesting #also now that i'm reading in a language i'm not as comfortable with. i've noticed... #it's REALLY frustrating when the game dialogue doesn't wait for you to finish reading it #like i do get it but yeesh