#uhh rant in tags

[flareboi]

what if purple never calls him dad

#what if the word ‘dad’ is something purple doesn’t like. #what if it carries a bad connotation for them and a bitter reminder for mango. #family doesnt always have to look like one thing yknow? i dont think those two would have a traditional dynamic in that way #maybe purple does consider him their parent. they just dont call him ‘dad’ unless its in third person #and theyre fine with that and so is he #king is his father figure yes but he’s also a mom. a big brother. a sister. their dynamic just isnt captured in purple calling him ‘dad’ #maybe his name is the best way they can say it. the best way they can appreciate him #because for purple a father is someone who hurts you. someone who leaves you #i think ‘purple calls him dad on accident’ is a cute idea #but honestly it would make more sense if they called him mom on accident instead. or if it happened when they were afraid. not comfortable #(this is presuming orchid is his mother and navy his father based on the pronouns used in the react vids iirc) #because why would purple refer to someone he sees as a parent with the title of the one that presumably did not raise them? #and on mangos end #i think u can kinda tell who in this fandom has never lost a loved one in how they characterize him #guys. grief doesnt leave. it never leaves. #you just learn to live with it!!! #mango is not okay just because he has a new kid to take care of. i would know this my bio mom passed and i have a stepmother!!! #she does not fill that void and i do not expect her to because it cannot be filled. but she brings a lot new to ease the pain and is a #wonderful part of my life #the same thing here #mango will never ever just .. go back to how he was #he will never be the same since gold died. and thats okay #purple will not change that. they will merely add something new #their dynamic can be beautiful and nontraditional and a showing of how grief can change you #it doesnt have to be ‘replacement dad and replacement son’ #its so much more #oke. tag rant over #fett rambles #ava #uhh should i tag the chars

[tittysuckersworld]

have tryed out clip studio paint!!! my thoughts: neat but a bit hard to control. love love how i can sketch on here though. looks and works a lot like paper so mabey this will be how i get more digital sketching done!! ibis paint is still better for super finnished arts i think.

also ideas with chuuya/arahabaki thingies because the ideas of god and man are funky uwu

#my arts<3 #fuckkk tagging time #weeeeeeee #arahabaki #bsd chuuya #chuuya nakahara #bsd #chuuya bsd #bsd fanart #bsd art #bungou stray dogs #bungou stray dogs chuuya #bungo stray dogs fanart #the bungos #nakahara chuuya #done! yayyyy #uhh yee hope this all ok? i love how chuuyas character is just. human. but i also have lots of fun thinking of this #also also the tiny guy floating on a rock above chuuya is dazai. its another height joke because i cannot stop myself #fuck okay am in pain gonna go heat up heat pad now- but yee! funky doodles #also if anyone wants my new more done sped kid rants pls pls pls ask must add the bungos to it because. #*looks at giant cork board with pictures and rambles and red yarn connecting the dots* i have a lot #and it just agkkk it works so so gooddddd

[basslinegrave]

i was being a completely sane person today (/s) and was creating a timeline tree for snm would anyone even be interested in that. and collecting my shipping thoughts (or specifics about them being a couple etc). know that i still consider my knowledge of the franchise as poor. its just tidying it up in my head so when i talk about something i can pinpoint a specific thing (i was too deep in fnaf theorizing so now i have to suffer thru a franchise that doesnt even have a canon)

in short/tldr the comics are the base that happened in every possible timeline and everything else is derived from that, happening after, except the cartoon, which shows some events the same way so that would be more intertwined; not everything is connected/within one timeline. and the cartoon is my most fav and where i see them as a true couple.

long rant ahead

on one hand i really like the time travel theory where its like comics -> ttg -> cartoon etc by them travelling back in time for that, however there are many holes especially thinking about their families and stuff so

i like the idea of things branching off. one branch is comics - htr - cartoon, as something more intertwined

second is comics -> ttg -> poker night 2 (since it references ttg events) (idk bout 1 i havent played/seen that)

third would be comics -> ttiv (or comics -> htr -> ttiv, i have no idea atm if bosco's is mentioned in the comics but it is in htr and mentioned in ttiv. ttiv is also set in the year it came out, so theres a huge gap inbetween ttiv and htr but i wouldnt say its where the ttg games happened!)

and i dont mean this in like a multiverse way, since the creator seems to dislike that, its simply just a very loose canon that differs with each installment (simply due to different people working on these imo. nothing too deep imo)

but the juicy part!! i even made brackets that im too lazy to remake digitally so i will just write it out for each bigger installment. im excluding poker night 1 as i havent played it nor watched much gameplay

M = married, BF = best friends (in all technically)

comics: M - unlikely; BF - yes absolutely

htr: M - possible; BF - yes

cartoons: M - i take it as canon here. BF - yes million percent

ttg all seasons: M - no; BF - yes.

poker night 2: M - not sure, implied dating, i take that as good enough; BF - yes

ttiv: M - absolutely not. not a couple at all. BF - they seem too tense, yes, but from my experience playing, their interactions were imo the worst in all of their media, so i wasnt buying it at some points

note - ttiv has to be like the straightest they ever were and i also see it in S.P.'s more recent work. im looking too deep into that, perhaps, but im just thinking were never gonna get anything similar to what we got from back in the 90s again, if theres any future projects

people are also saying they got married like 4 times and its making me a bit confused here. do people mean cartoon, htr dress up card, cake topper and tdph ring scene or am i missing something big?? because to me that is married once, other ones being just for jokes (first one as well but its less vague), and in the ttg games its so extremely vague i cant count that (being realistic here) that said its still fun to joke about them getting married several times, but in this case wouldnt it be more of a marriage per timeline?

and to end this, a personal tierlist

my most fave obviously is the cartoon. not only is it the easiest to work with for me, with the fast pacing and short watch time (but ofc i wish it was longer) i absolutely love how their relationship is depicted there, even if a lot of stuff there is just jokes, but if everything is a joke then its also fine to take everything as canon within this media, to me! like when haters say that people only take the wedding scene out of the intro and ignore the rest - as if the other stuff couldnt happen (isnt one of the shots them fighting a giant octopus, which they end up having an episode about too. like cmon. anything goes here) even if it was contained within this specific part of the franchise, im ok with calling them a couple here. and its S tier overall

another S tier is the comics. nothing else to say

HTR is like A tier to me, only taking off points because its soooo sloooowwww and playing it after watching the series took 3 years off my life immediately. otherwise gud game.

ttg is like A to B tier for me, because of some specifics and preferences but thats just me being nitpicky so, the games overall are good. A- it is. thats all

poker night 2 is fun, i watch the gameplay a lot lately when im too tired at midnight to do anything else, A tier

ttiv. oh how mixed i am about you. gameplay by itself and my first experience with the game - S tier. it made me so giddy more than one time and i kept wanting to come back until i finished the game fully. i dont mind the bugs, its just what i expect in VR games and even tho it made me a bit frustrated at times it wasnt all that bad. its also the only vr game i played for over an hour once and didnt get motion sick - the exception was the level at the store which seemed too bright and actually made me nauseous. which is a feeling that somehow comes back whenever i think about this game. what i dislike was the dialogue, while most of it was fun and fine, i had moments where i just burst out laughing, they (or max especially) were way too mean towards the player. i know its a joke and you could chalk it up to max being unhappy with us/jealous, but it got like, generally unpleasant very quickly. with stuff like good throw - "nice!" bad throw - *neverending insults* and the second was how painfully straight it was and like. the vibes i got from them two was like, oh theyre fed up with each other and my shipping self was just left quite disappointed. i did not get all lines during my gameplay which made it great but upon going thru every line manually after, i was just more and more uncomfortable with what they said in their banter. this drops the game to like C for me? maybe B if i squint. being generous. i also got sick of their talking animations over time... the models are fine just got to be too much. bonus points for max ragdoll physics tho. coming up with a conclusion that this is a completely separate timeline and has nothing to do with anything other than the comics and perhaps HTR. i talked so long about this one cause its the one thing that prompted all of this lol.

but its not that serious! i just knew this franchise for ages as "oh its the two animal guys that are married and its funny" and now that i got into it fully, i see a lot of the shippers are obviously daydreaming and taking things out of context - which is fun, i agree!! i also do that. but it just painted a completely different picture for me. so no. theyre not married, theyre not a couple, except for the cartoon, where its implied, which stays on top for me. but in ttg at least, they love each other, its not as romantic, but i can ship them there (so i ship them in the context of the cartoon and ttg basically)

anyway. nothing is canon for them, everything is canon for them, and everything they say or do is a joke so. its not that deep at all. they gay tho

#insane ramblings #i will tag this #sam and max #for the 2 people that will read this 🫶 #thoughts are being thunk #long post #i just went on an unplanned rant here #i was home alone today and spent most of my day thinking about ttiv and how much i hate it and love it and hate it #one could even say its textbook queerbait but since its a separate game i cannot say it #but going from showing them getting married to 20 years later sam dating random women its like. uhh idont like that #obviously #i hc him as bi or pan so its fine its just so lame. like who are they? you know. random off screen characters that mean nothing to me #and max being jealous of the player being there but allowing sam to date is so lol. i havent found the line about the other woman yet #but ive had the lines open for way too many times and i dread going through them further. but i might bite the bullet i just want context #wonder if one of them is that one afghan hound (?) from that one valentines art #when the characters get ooc in official media /j

[valravn72]

I’ve been playing a lot of small indie games and god I wish the rest of the game industry understood that the whole point of farming and grinding is so that in some point of the journey the player can go HAHAHA I PLANNED FOR THIS and pull off crazy crap earlier than they should be able to. Like Teenage Exocolonist letting me just walk past all the checks when I’m outside the colony and go to the boss immediately because I farmed the fuck out of my perception skill should technically be game ruining but it’s not. I planned for this so I could get the ascension ending easily while simultaneously putting the rest of my effort into figuring out as much about engineering as possible at the same time so I can pull off a full shield run. Having advantages in certain contexts should allow me to interact with it in a way that opens an entirely new path for me to take. Poisoning the campfire survivors at the very beginning of my Inscryption run lets me take a route where I focus on building up the cards I already have instead of hunting down new ones. Advantages are good!! Grinding so you’re high enough level to beat one boss only for the rest of the game to balance itself by making everything else many levels higher than you once again is unrewarding. If your player cannot face your game from multiple angles then maybe it’s not that worth exploring. If your player over relies on an ability they spent a long time working up and they’ve made the game too easy make it so that steers them into a new situation where they have to innovate on their strategy to get things going again. Just hand me a game like Inscryption where I farm the whole game with fecundity decks and then get to Kaycee’s Mod and realize I have to relearn the whole game from a completely new perspective now that I can’t rely on that anymore. If it’s just a matter of “the numbers are too high we have to turn all the other numbers up too” then do the numbers really mean anything anymore or are you just keeping me stuck in a role where I’m saying to myself “once I have the advantage I’ll be able to explore so many new things” but then never letting me have any advantage until near the end when the world has lost its charm because everything is just a damn numbers game.

#Crow rants #again #idk what to tag this I’m just saying shit man #uhh #i was a teenage exocolonist #a rare game that understands the value of having skill stats #I can go on a long rant about how I’ve never seen any other game pull skill stats off that well #the system has its flaws but they balanced the whole advantage thing AND time loop replay advantages at the same time #and they make skills connected to certain plot lines and jobs and other skills #it’s amazing #good example of making grinding fun and not soul sucking #not to mention how they manage to make them work with role playing!! #the players ability to make clever choices still has value while also giving the skill levels value simultaneously #that is a HARD thing to pull off believe me

[karamazovanon]

some smerds

#pavel fyodorovich smerdyakov #the brothers karamazov #still working out a design.............sans man bun #super rough sketches but i dont feel like cleaning it up #no references no lineart just vibes #ill do a better one of smerdyakov with a guitar at some point and actually look at a picture of a guitar instead of going #uhh yeah that seems guitar shaped #anonart #his squinty eye is very good #i hated him SO MUCH when i started reading but i turned into a smerdyakov apologist by the end. is that a hot take #i just think hes neat (tormented by societal dehumanization and finally snapping and reclaiming the agency hes been denied all his life) #tag rant over it is simply wild how much this guy grew on me #smerdyakov

[your-local-ruebit-hole-detective]

I think a lot about the canon interpretation of Jayce abandoning Viktor for Mel, and in the course of trying to write a one shot about the subject, I’ve realized it just kind of… isn’t true?

Like… if you look at the plot beat where Mel, Jayce, and Viktor’s relationship is on full display, the hexcore/sex scene, it’s late at night. Jayce hasn’t abandoned Viktor for Mel, he’s just having a romantic life outside of work. I would question anyone who would say that’s abandonment. And when he hears Viktor is hurt, he actually leaves Mel for Viktor! He leaves her alone without so much as a note, because his friend/brother/lover (depending on your interpretation) needs him.

And then later, when Jayce apologizes to Mel for leaving her, he says sorry… and then immediately segues into talking about Viktor. (Which, yknow, kind of a dick move.) His apology essentially amounts to “sorry, but let’s talk about Viktor now because I’m so worried about him.” Mel doesn’t really get her feelings in the spotlight in that scene, other than a veiled bitter remark, before she’s comforting Jayce.

idk. I think about the three of them a lot.

#rue rants #arcane #rue writes #Uhh #what to tag #mel medarda #jayce talis #arcane viktor #I look insane to all my non arcane moots rn

[disturbedgent]

Man, I really just wrote an entire essay in a discord server with a bunch of my friends about geology. I swear to shit. In all honesty, I'm kinda bummed that geology isn't a major in the college I plan on going to bc I feel like I would knock that shit out. I just love it so much. Like, don't even get me started. I just think it's amazing how not only have WE been able to create new minerals as well, but that we're able to study them. Whenever I go on a hike now, all I can do is look at the rocks around me. Geology, what have you done to me. I mean, it's not exactly something I can brag about because most people don't give a shit until I mention the fact that I have a rock collection. I have a few geodes, but they're ALL QUARTZ, which is nice, I guess, but it gets to a point where I'm literally begging for any geode I find to have anything BUT quartz in it. Quartz is nice, dont get me wrong, but I have SO MUCH of it. I remember one time I almost tossed away a chunk of diorite bc I thought it was quartz. Like come on, do better, Earth. Btw here's quartz and diorite.

I know they look super different but my dumbass brain sees white on a rock and then goes "Oh yeah, that's quartz I don't need more quartz" but I was WRONG and an IDIOT. I really like geology and rocks and minerals btw did I mention that

#geology #rocks #minerals #how do i tag this #rant post #idk man #quartz #diorite #uhh #yeah thats it

[homoeroticvillain]

oh hey i figured out how to draw tits

#turns out triangles is all ya need #anyways just trying to make designs i can repeat and use instead of making up new outfits every time #ill uhh make these digital eventually and slap em on toyhouse #still need to do adam and yknow the rest but i wanted to draw the girls #klepto talks to himself #klepto rants about ocs #klepto's art tag #angel [oc] #snow [oc]

[sp1resong]

can rain world fans BPLEASE tag their ship posts please please please

#rain world #on my hands and knees begging. PLEASE. #honestly this goes for all fandoms but with rain world it's like. #the community's smaller so it doesn't feel like a . lost cause i guess #anyways. nothing against shippers you're all very cool i'm sure i just don't want to see thag #< i'm aro and romance repulsed but like. Even if i wasn't i don't need to explain my preferences #spire rambles #...do i drop this in the fuckin. rant tag. nah i don't think it's strong enough for that but uhh #spire salt #there. new tag for when i'm just a little bit annoyed

[selenealwayscries]

joining the war of the vocaloidification of block men on the side of the vocaloidification of block men

#mcyt #empires smp #empiresblr #scott smajor #smajor1995 #dangthatsalongname #petition for scott to have less tags because i hate tagging #fwhip #see? the fwhip fans get the pain /j #anyways rant time hehe #i havent posted for a while cuz even tho i did have the energy to draw i didnt have the energy to post . nor the ideas to draw either #but you know whats great for combating art block? MEN IN DRESSES #works every time no joke #anyways scott has world is mine vibes and you can fight me on that #also fwhip in the romeo and cinderella dress is a fwhilbur reference . im not elaborating #*gestures angrily towards zlix* #uhh now that i mentioned fwhilbur i feeling i have to tag #empiresshipping #as well cuz . yknow . fwhilbur #fun fact the empiressona main vc is named fwhilbur hell . were all trapped <- cry for help #anyways its almost 1am and my mom will game end me if i dont sleep now bye #catgirl supreme

[intersexfairy]

random storytime bc im autistic about geneaology

family history on my dad's side of the family is weird. my (catholic) grandmother had a few customs that are like jewish mourning customs (shiva). there was another custom involving the red string that she had told me and my sister about when we were kids. her family is from germany, galway ireland, and moselle france. idk why she did it, but her sister said the mourning customs sound like something people "did in the past." mayhaps it's a whole anusim situation, since i did find a (unverified) connection on the french side to a tree on JewishGen.

then there's my grandfather, an only child who was orphaned (temporarily) as a child. his father was 9 years older than his mother, and seemed to have met her when she was a minor. they married when she was 19, and my grandpa was born when she was 20. she abandoned him and his father quickly after, and never got back in contact. he was taken care of by his aunt while his father was a soldier in WW2. his father remarried, so he had step siblings.

...but my dad has a half first cousin match on ancestry... meaning my grandfather has/had a half sibling out there somewhere (potentially, a brother who's 2 years younger than him and died in 2012). normal people would just go message my dad's cousin and ask about it. will i do that? not yet. i'm gonna sleuth on my own, cause this may actually be something i can figure out... unlike my grandmother's customs.

#julian rants #geneaology #family history #abuse tw #bc there is no way that wasnt abuse. even if my family doesnt bat an eye. and is mad at my grandpa's mom #uhh hope its ok to use these tags just lmk if not: #jewish #judaism #i know im not jewish. just want to be clear about that #but maybe someone has some insight on what may be going on and how to figure it out

[lifeonmvrs]

signal samurai trio, my beloved <3

#yk it’s funny that in the episode they decide to show their friendship they also show edgeworth choosing death #IT MAKES SENSE (bc they show edgeworth leaving first when they are little and now when they are grown up) BUT IT’S STILL SO FUNNY #phoenix is all like #«our frienship will never change… right edgeworth?» #and then the music stops and they show edgeworth leaving 💀 #i mean… i GUESS it will never change. edgeworth is leaving once again… BUT LMAO ITS STILL SO FUNNY #OK SORRY FOR THE RANT LOL #yall have no idea how much i struggled drawing larry #if you wanna see my suffering you can check my uhh like three posts on my main blog (you’ll have to find it tho blehhh) #but yeah #drawing larry was a nightmare #and i FORGOT HIS BEARD!!! i am NOT drawing it tho #phoenix was hard too but easier than larry #edgeworth was the easiest to draw (not staying it wasn’t hard tho 😭) #very in character tbh #ANYWAY!!! hope you like the drawing now for the real tags ig #phoenix wright fanart #phoenix wright #miles edgeworth #larry butz #laurice deauxnim #signal samurai trio #ace attorney #digital art #art #digital artist #fanart #aa fanart #aa #my art

[shooks-stupid-stuff]

after like 3 years of saying i was going to, i've finally started playing len'en

i like this guy a lot

#tsurubami senri #len'en project #im sure my one friend who knows what len'en is will be pleased by this kcjvcv #but genuinely like silly goffy doodles aside. jesus christ this series is good #like ok i was expecting it to be like #harder touhou. and it is kinda. but like i have been blown away by the creativity with boss's having mechanics based on their abilities and #shit like- #kuroji's fight in ee was so annoying but goddamn if it wasnt cool- #anyways i love this series. not as much as i love touhou (not yet anyways) but i by no means think it's inferior or anything- #and the difficulty options are so based. light mode is a godsend to my bad-at-games ass #and easy extra is SO BIG BRAIN it felt so good to actually be able to beat the extra stages- #but yeah games fun!! and begin friendly!! and free!! #highly reccommend!! also i shouldnt have to say this but MMM THE MUSIC #my favorite song should be obvious from this post but. goddamn i love the ost (its what made me finnaly just get the games lmao-) #anyways uhh i wanna doodle more of my faves at some point so. later maybe for sure- #anyways. tag rant over jcbvjckv- #shook doodles

[emosyzoth]

tbh syzoth and ashra is nicebut i do feel the need to make it a little more agonizing to watch

#like uhh even as the years have passed and syzoth is coming to fully accept his family is gone #hes still holding them very dear to his heart #so i think hes afraid of crossing that line into caring for another person #1. because he feels guilty about moving on esp bc he still feels somewhat responsible for what happened last time #and 2. relating to the first reason- hes afraid as soon as he gets comfortable again and cares abt someone #something WILL happen again and hell end up allowing yet another loved one to be hurt or worse #he thinks hes already lucky enough to have friends and to have people accepting him now. so he SHOULD be content with that #but pushing his luck any further and wanting more will just end in disaster #uhm. anyways this has been a alucard mk rant hope u enjoyed..... #mortal kombat #<< tagging cause i just wanna keep all my posts related to that in a little thing

[gtg3000]

Oh boy, here I go ranting again.

So I went in to play Cultic finally, and while it's a great game with awesome atmosphere, it has done the cardinal sin of having my pet peeve in it and so I must rant.

The game front-loads the "they used to have less colours" shaders, and it kinda made me overly negative on it for the first minutes until I realised that a lot of textures are just pixel art and what *is* stock textures that were crumpled down mostly look fine.

So, what's my beef with these two options? Here's a screenshot of the game, without them:

And here's them turned on, with and without "dithering"

Note how, just how they are in the options menu, they are applied one after another - which makes dithering into little more than just a texture applied over top, you can still see the banding with perfect clarity. I get that GPU dithering is... Difficult, to say the least. Here's a forum post by Lucas Pope describing how he arrived at making dithering in Obra Dinn work. And that's just black-and-white dithering. You can do it by dithering the colour channels separately, but I digress. Dithering is a tool that's supposed to help you get *rid* of these banding artefacts - by mixing together pixels where you can't have an intermediate value. A shader will still have bands, true, but you can make them look significantly smoother while still having the same limited palette. Here's a kodak standard testing image of parrots.

Here it is, ran through a toy ditherer I have written, it's palette extracted and merged by distance, no dithering.

Here it is again, same toy ditherer, same palette, but with dithering enabled.

Looks quite a bit nicer, doesn't it? This kind of dithering lets you keep more image detail by trying to compensate for the error of down-sampling - in this case, literally picking nearest colour, checking what the error is, and then distributing it to the nearby pixels. This exact algorithm produces nice results, but is inherently linear so it can't be put into a shader. You can still make a shader that represents the intermediates with a different mix of two nearest shades - like this cool demo demonstrates. But you can't do it if you first strip the colours out and *then* dither it. So, what I want to rant about is - if you gonna go for a limited palette look with dynamic lighting, the part that does dithering should also be the part that does palette reduction.

#mine #text #rant #dithering #retro look #just want my retro games look retro and not like you turned posterisation filter on #this game be so fine and then bam #uhh... I think I broke the tags #oh well

[3ntity56]

If I tell you 'I'm unhappy with my situation' and you tell me 'But you have so many blessings! Look at all the cool stuff you have nobody else has!' all that tells me is you don't give a shit about me and you just want me to shut the fuck up. Here is why.

When I come to you complaining about being unhappy with a situation, I am looking for one of two things. 1) advice or 2) support. I don't automatically think anybody who says this is dismissive and uncaring (though it feels like it at the time) because you may be well intentioned, but at that moment, I don't care about my blessings. this may make me sound ungrateful, but me complaining about my situation doesn't make me ungrateful. I am certainly very grateful for all the things I have that some others may not get-- online friends, sufficient food and shelter, television, a bed-- but that doesn't make me any less upset about the things bothering me. Just because I have food and toys doesn't mean I'm any less of a caged animal, and you trying to convince me I am, in my mind, equates you with the people who locked me there in the first place.

#rant #mental health support #mental health #uhh idk what else to tag this with #entity says