#they increase the number of games

[bluesandboos]

everything's going to be fine because xavi tore his acl and came back better and stronger and they have similar sounding names and wear the same number and by the time he's back, he'll take a year to build endurance to play two times a week so he'll be older and better able to take the load instead being a literal child and then-

#take my acl please i don't need it #the football governing bodies #you are ruining this sport and running players into the ground #and for WHAT #to line their pockets #im in shambles and im not even trying to be overdramatic #i can't even bring myself to care about how the season is gonna turn out #this is all just a vicious cycle #they increase the number of games #players start getting injured #clubs get desperate and turn to their young talent in their academies #or buying youth #they play #at fcb they'll make a splash bc we're in the business of spawning wonderkids #they play more #because why not they're good right? #their national team notices and they get called up #they play more and more and more #especially if the club is doing well and they're settling in more #and as the sport progresses and advances #players are more talented on average they get more marketable #the sport gets more marketable #and i guess that means more games because who cares what the players say #and at this point they'v 100s of games by the age of 18 #they've become an undisputed starter #the team is dependent on them #and they're literal kids so their body can't take it #and then they get injured #and whoop suddenly we need to return the academy and it starts again #gavi

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

"You can't change people's minds" where does the change in social change come from then? Spare coins?

Not everyone is up to debate and convince people otherwise but that's why activism is a skill worth learning. Just because you couldn't do it doesn't make it impossible.

#democracy is a numbers game #if you assume a strategy of decreasing your numbers #or even a strategy where increasing your numbers is seen as an impossible feat #you are going to lose

[kevindavidday]

you won't believe how easy it is to ship kevin with people like in my head everyone and their mom loves him cuz i love him

#the number of ships increase sm #have a kevin navy at this point #kevaaron #kevthea #kandreil #kandrew #kevneil #kevjean #keremy #kerejean #kevjeanthea or as dayurno calls it (gunshot noise) #amazing #splendid #put that man in a situation #kevin day #aftg #tfc #all for the game #the foxhole court

[adobe-outdesign]

Everyone: Pokemon is a family-friendly game for all ages!

Children, reading the Bulbapedia page on Pokemon IVs trying to figure out how they work:

#pokemon #pkmn #outdesign posts things #.gif #hot take but I loved PLA's grit system and wholeheartedly believe it should be applied to the main games #I'm an adult and even I had to watch multiple videos to learn how to train EVs and IVs #'oh there are two completely different stats that affect your pokemon's power. both are hidden from the player. #you have a certain amount of points you can sink into two EV stats but we're not going to actually show you the numbers or anything #you have to use special berries to lower these stats and items to increase the ones you want. and you have to go to an NPC to fix IVs #and none of this is mentioned or explained in the game. lol anyway good luck'

[overtake]

admitting ur a larrie and saying it brought you to your current ship is such a brave personal choice. this comment should be an official diagnosis in the dsm-5.

#ive had this in my drafts for ages but ppl are being weird so im here to be a hater sorry #and this just feels timely with people being attacked for telling people to get reading comprehension #like if ur ever comparing ur ship to larry then plz do some personal reflection #larries are fucking batshit off the wall out of this world unhinged #ships are supposed to be lighthearted and fun and something that makes you happy #i have plenty of fun w max and daniel content #but i cannot keep reading the unhinged levels some people are reaching w l*stappen #it’s transitioning from ‘i like the content and their interactions and ao3!’ #into ‘i am inventing evidence and connecting dots and genuinely believe these two men are fucking’ like i fear its not fun and games anymore #this is nothing against l*stappenies themselves at all. keep on keeping on #this is all about the weird ones #theres weirdos in any ship but the number of them keeps increasing w this particular one so i just wanted to say. plz do not be larries. #(sorry for the asterisks like l*stappen is a slur i just dont want it to show up in the tag lol)

[ijustloveobeymeok]

Simeon: You killed them!?

Belphegor: Actually, I believe they died of natural causes

Solomon, checking the body: knife to the neck

Simeon: I thought you said they died of natural causes

Belphegor: There's nothing more natural than dying from knife to neck

Satan, nodding: What would be unnatural is if they had survived

#obey me shall we date #obey me #headcanon: belphegor and satan have an ongoing challenge of who can come up with the more dangerous game #and once they come up with one everyone in their surrounding usually ends up having to play #all individuals live in fear #the games almost always ends with lucifer having to break it up #they have single handedly increased the statistics of demons needing therapy #their favorite so far is a hopscotch game where each number one lands on has a game of life or death #created by satan #obey me headcanons #obey me incorrect quotes #obey me! #obey me brothers #obey me satan #obey me belphegor

[outeremissary]

🍉🍪🍕 for Ismene?

Thanks for the asks, Ash! This took longer than expected because after drafting the answers I went to fact check some lore and um. Spent over an hour reading about libraries. Whoops!!

[prompt list]

🍉: Does your OC have a particular piece of jewellery that they always wear or refuse to part with?

Ismene has a black velvet choker she wears almost constantly (an item which is fortunately easy to keep secure on the road and in fights). The choker was a gift from Imoen from not long after Imoen was first brought to Candlekeep, and one with some backstory to it. Around that time Candlekeep had hosted a noblewoman for several weeks who was a dedicated lover of scholarly pursuits bursting with admiration for the monks of Candlekeep. It had been her dream to visit the great library and learn from it, and she treated the hallowed library and its keepers with nothing but the utmost reverence. For the other residents of Candlekeep, however, she seemed to have nothing but contempt- even for the little elf girl who helped to mind the reading rooms and who carefully shelved the books for the librarians between visits. Ismene became a frequent target of the woman's ire. The woman complained frequently of her presence, berated her for her presumed background, treated her as a servant, and harshly criticized the work she did. After a day where Ismene attempted several times to correct the woman for violating the rules of a reading room, the woman went to one of the Great Readers and went on at length about the girl's insolent behavior, accusing her of singling the woman out for harassment and attempting to steal from the woman's bag.

Imoen saw Ismene crying after being scolded over the accusations, and the morning after the woman suddenly found herself with real problems on her hands. Somehow a bottle of ink had cracked in her bag, leaking all over her fine clothes and ruining pages of her careful notes. For the rest of her visit she seemed tormented by an endless string of accidents. Things broke or went missing, her food burned, the floors outside her room were always just slick enough with half done mopping for her to slip... Although she went to Winthrop more than once over these incidents, her complaints fell on deaf ears after weeks of tormenting the inn's staff with false claims. On the last day of her stay, the woman reported frantically that a favorite choker, one which she had worn frequently during her time at Candlekeep, had gone missing. Although she turned half of Candlekeep upside down searching for it, she never managed to find it, and she left the library fortress disconsolate over its loss. That night Imoen presented it to Ismene as a gift. The girls have been fast friends ever since (though they did both get in trouble over the clearly stolen item).

🍪: What is something that's sentimental to your OC?

Any of the many things that remind her of Candlekeep- she misses her home dearly, and has not been happy to leave. The smell of books, the gentle warmth of the afternoon sun in a comfortable seat by a window, the droning sound of chant... Any of it can take her back for just the briefest moment. Maybe the most potent, but thankfully the least bittersweet, moments of sentiment come from time spent with Imoen talking and braiding hair as if they were girls again. Ismene isn't one to voice gratitude, but she's incredibly thankful for Imoen's companionship.

🍕: How does an OC spend a lazy day?

Ismene spends huge portions of unoccupied days sleeping. She can easily sleep for more than twelve hours when not interrupted, and she doesn't mind the time lost. She loathes having to wake before dawn to maximize daylight while traveling; even though elves have no real need for sleep she always sleeps on rest days in towns like she's catching up from weeks of deprivation. Of course, in her eyes her sleep is far more valuable than the sleep normal people experience because of the visions she receives in her dreams.

Aside from sleeping, she enjoys reading and will spend her waking hours squirreled away in a library given the chance- in the small towns of the Sword Coast these are often collections belonging to temples or wealthy private individuals, and identifying who locally has a worthwhile collection to attempt to access is one of her priorities when arriving somewhere new. Often there's little truly new and worthwhile in these collections relative to Candlekeep, but occasionally she's pleasantly surprised. Although on other occasions she is prematurely escorted out of the library after revealing to unhappy owners expensive forgeries or offering unsolicited critique of the gaps in their collections...

I wish I could say she had other things she spent time on as a hobby, but unfortunately Ismene is the number one nerd who never goes outside unless dragged and it really is mostly that.

#the meta reason for the choker has long since been lost to time. #ismene originally only had a visual design and I suspect in 2017 when locking that down I added it as easy space fill asdlfjas #fun to come up with a backstory to it. and also some fun unintentional design parallels with pre-canon asperia #bg1 is the number one game I spend more time thinking about than playing despite playing it regularly recently #making progress has not increased my faith that I will ever reach bg2 so if I ever say anything that conflicts with later canon #just pretend it doesn't </3 #certainly a character who's not entirely done cooking lol #ask game #ask me emithing #ismene #arendaes

[carpisuns]

I’ve clocked 120 hours of totk play time in three weeks girl help

I haven’t even done much side stuff!! Just the main quests! google says you’re supposed to be able to do main quest in like 60 hours but I took twice as long 🫠 the curse of being…just not good at video games but still very invested…lol

#I also have 125 hours of botw #which I played immediately before this #it probably took me 100 hours to finish those main quests but I was doing more side stuff along the way #for totk I was really trying to focus on the main storyline and STILL it took me this long #good grief #miracle I even made it through the final boss lol #I can’t believe I’ve played 245 hours of zelda in the past two months #numerical proof that I do not have a life HDSKDK #I wonder if these numbers are increased or decreased by the fact that my sister and I play together #she does most of the shrines and I do most of the dungeons and bosses #and we kind of take turns with side sfuff/exploration #but I’ve definitely played more than her #anyway #I still have so much of totk left. and I’ve barely touched the botw DLC #these games are just. Huge #And totk is even more massive #I have so many lightroots to get lol

[weirdbabs]

i am once again thinking about how fucked it is that sacrificing like half to three fourths of the ships/crews to save 3 people is considered a paragon option but sacrificing about 75% of your unit to defeat the enemy is renegade. why would sacrificing thousands of people to save 3 be considered “compassionate” or “heroic” while sacrificing 75% of your unit (which is 7-14 people apparently, so like 5-11 people) to ensure you won is considered “ruthless” or “apathetic”

(i know why. its bc the first mass effect game doesnt really seem to have a grip on what it wants its morality to be much more than blue= nice, good and red= bad, mean)

#mass effect #the later games get it better imo. i really like how they did it in 3 where often times the choices lead to the same thing #like choosing the renegade vs paragon option in the geth/quarian conflict. both save both races but both speeches feel right for the option #you know? #the ME wiki describes renegade as ‘ruthless’ and ‘apathetic’ which like. *throws hands in the air* I GUESS #like personally i dont think of renegade shep as apathetic based on the ruthless background but whatever. to each their own #didnt feel like saying this when i typed it bc i was trying to get something to my mom so that took priority but i said 50-75% of the troops #bc each asset is worth 90 (75 if council saved). thats maybe 1/3 lost but im increasing it bc its been AT LEAST 2 years since the battle and #we KNOW that they had a surge of people enlisting post to fight the geth. figure in more people enlisting right after earth was hit and i #figure that numbers somewhere between 50 and 75% lost. especially since i couldnt find an actual number anywhere #personally i think me3 starts 3. maybe 3.5 years after the battle bc 2 years dead + me2 + 6 months under house arrest

[prettyboykatsuki]

genuine apology for the biweekly insane bg3 art rampage i go on they drive me nuts

#i got the game in mid oct and have like 300 ish hours and im sure that number will only increase. blame lamb not me #aristotle.txt

[heartfulselkie]

Some people already asked ones I was curious about hahaha but one that caught my eye was Bell the Cat - what's that one about?

This one's my Ladyblanc Knight AU that I've been working with on and off for a while now.

Ladybug is the champion and sworn protector of the kingdom and has defended its people from the tyrant Hawk Moth and his akumas. That is until Hawk Moth is apparently slain by his own knight captain and champion, Chat Blanc. But even with Hawk Moth gone and Chat Blanc captured and on death's row, akumas are still running rampant.

Ladybug believes that someone has taken Hawk Moth's place, but with little to go on she needs help to end this reign of terror once and for all. So Ladybug invokes the heroic reward promised to her by the kingdom. Instead of choosing a place in the royal guard or wealth or an estate, she choses custody of Chat Blanc. As dangerous as he is, he's the only one who might be able to help her.

Ladybug looked at the murky reflection in her drink. Lies and deceit did little when one was chasing ghosts. Only the truth could put things to rest.

“So he was finally captured then,” she said, still staring into her cup. “And he’s now here in the city.”

Rena leaned back in her chair with a scoff. “‘Captured’ is an exaggeration. From what I’ve found, he gave himself up willingly. After bathing in the blood of his victims, of course. Though I think that last part might also be an exaggeration.”

“It does sound a little extreme.”

“Well, he managed to level an entire wing of Hawk Moth’s castle. Though that could be considered gentle in comparison to what he did to Hawk Moth himself.”

Ladybug set down her drink. Her eyes fixated on an uneven knot in the wooden table before her as she frowned.

She’d heard the horror story of what Raincomprix’s group had found. What had started as a scouting mission had turned to a bizarre nightmare. Almost a third of a castle reduced to cinders and its owner torn to shreds beyond recognition.

“Chat Blanc…” Ladybug murmured. “He really killed his master, didn’t he?”

Rena’s brow furrowed. “It would appear Hawk Moth’s most loyal knight wasn't all that loyal after all. If it had been under normal circumstances, his killer might have been hailed a hero.”

“Normal circumstances?”

“You know, if Chat Blanc wasn’t a merciless monster.” Ladybug hummed in agreement. Even if Hawk Moth had been a villain and a tyrant, Chat Blanc had been an extension of - no - had been the main driving force of enabling that. Of the few that survived encounters with him, everyone was in agreement. Chat Blanc wasn’t human. He was a demon.

WiP Game

#ladyblanc going from reluctant allies to swearing undying loyalty for each other is all i dream of #i love this au so much #but it keeps getting knocked aside as my number of wips keeps increasing #i'll get it written someday #seas-of-silver #ask game #tag game #ask selkie

[carlatsukinamistolemyhamsandwich]

For the ask game : Carla falls in love with a human girl from their school and he's so confused because he never felt like that before and won't accept loving a human girl because of his founder pride.

Sorry if what I wrote doesn't make any sense.

Are the slots still available?

We're really in the mood to put Carla through his paces huh? (I approve). And yes, there are currently three slots left for DL and five left for Genshin, I'll make a post once all of them are filled.

Five line ask game (although I have once again slightly cheated on the five line part here)- open (see this post)

There is a smear of paint on your cheek, a vibrant streak of scarlet that could almost be mistaken for fresh blood at a distance. Though the thought would once have made him gag, now Carla's fangs postively ache pierce through your delicate skin, to tear it open and feel your lifeblood flow into him.

His jaw clenches as he forces himself to remain seated, continuing to watch you add daubs of colour to the oil painting you've been working on for a number weeks now. He's been observing you like this for at least half of them, using his magic to keep himself hidden so he can watch you at his leisure.

A way to pass the time while waiting for Karlheinz to make his next move, that's all this was ever meant to be. And the seal he places on the door during each one of these sessions is purely done so that he may see the figures of your painting come to life without interruption—it most certainly had nothing to do with the boy he'd seen carefully clutching a letter with your name on it.

If you like this concept, I've done something similar with Shin which you can find here.

#five line ask game #Carla Tsukinami #Carla Tsukinami x reader #my writing #I may increase the number of slots if they all get filled but we're definitely not on track for that at the moment

[narwhalandchill]

name a more iconic duo than me and being an almost day 1 seele haver yet getting the uncontrollable urge to build my 4* quantum carries 2 times out of 2 so far with literally no excuse. tho in my defense im p sure both propagation qingque and erudition xueyi have lowkey been more fun in SU for me than literally any other path unit combo ever 🫡

+ dont chase four stars guys its dumb but. given the. State of kafkas rate up 4*. risked it a bit more on blades banner side after concluding tingyun e6 saga and won again 😤

#im not sure id call xueyi eidolon locked but. you really feel the increased frequency of followups at e6 #its prolly not even just the numbers its just how much better it Feels to play too #also idk w xueyi i was just attracted to this hybrid build nature she has? and ofc her break rope n atk orb had to roll like #flawlessly with all into crit and spd p much just to incentivize me further AJSJSKDKDK #relic rolls when u build a chara for months VS build em out of nowhere #anyway im at 39 pity for kafka now i rly hope i can win 50-50. ive needed a lightning dps since forever #hsr #gaming tag

[gibbearish]

dont starve is kicking my ass btw

#really wish there was a way to like. restart a bit ahead?? if that makes sense??? like spawn with a few items already instead of having to #do it all over again every time #esp cause like. i dont have enough health to really spend time learning how to fight the enemies. #so i either stand still and kill them while losing 90% of my health and learning nothing about them #or i try to dodge and fail and die and have to start all over AGAIN #also the wiki for this game fucking sucks can i just saym i should not have to go seven links down in google to confirm that full moons #make it bright enough you can do stuff all night. that seems to be literally its number 1 function #'xyz mobs will turn into abc mobs' 'this one special item will show up' GREAT THOSE SEEM MAYBE LESS GENERALLY HELPFUL THAN JUST. #'the full moon provides full vidibility and prevents Charlie from spawning throughout the night' #easy peezy #grinding and gnashing my teeth like it is definitely fun and thats probably honestly a big part of the frustration #is that its like. im having a lot of fun and then in three seconds my world is ruined and i have to spend another hour or two building back #up from scratch #idk im used to hardcore being an optional difficulty increase rather than the baseline #except of course for binding of isaac but that game has WAY more in terms of self defense options #here i have a spear at best

[unrestrainedbalderdash]

Wanting to play a videogame and it has an update that's 4GB 💀💀💀

#one day i may show you all of the riddlers i have made in the wrestling game. #that number might be about to increase. #i must make the little man and make superman to beat him up

[kaytory]

#Netflix and other streaming platforms like it moved their film and productions from Hollywood to New Mexico. Hollywood #known as a hub in the moviemaking industry #today is practically undesirable. This was mostly due to the imposition of extra costs #extreme protocols when it comes to personal protection equipment #and huge outbreaks of covid. They increased insurance costs for production companies. Hollywood sought to use the pandemic to its own advan #industry leaders took their business to New Mexico. #In addition to inflated prices #California requires a certain number of booster shots. Their arrogance does not allow industry workers a choice. The state determines the n #it drove industry leaders to leave Hollywood. In my mind it makes a lot of sense. If companies remained in Hollywood #they were going to lose money before they even began to create the work. Hollywood greed cost them their status and reputation. #New Mexico welcomes the industry. They offer “tax incentives that include a 25% to 35% production tax credit for film #TV #commercials #documentaries #music videos #video games #animation #postproduction and more.” Other credits are also available to production companies as well. This city has made itself number one in moviema #In 2019 #Netflix and NBCUniversal partnered with the city on a ten-year plan. Albuquerque and Santa Fe #New Mexico are a force to reckon with in the movie industry. “New Mexico’s film incentives continue to be a gold standard in the industry.” #https://www.abqjournal.com/.../nm-film-industry-sets... #and Finishing What you Start Seminar #1/7/23