#why do people take games so seriously

[findafight]

Robin chose Steve. Robin made the conscious and deliberate decision that she could and would trust Steve. She already liked him! She had fun working and bantering with him! They were already on their way to being weird little bffs and the torture just expedited the process. Steve chose Robin just the same! He thinks she's fun and cool and likes her so much! He chose to be honest and open with her too, putting himself out there.

Even though their interests on the surface level don't match why wouldn't they share them? Steve clearly caves when Robin wants to watch a movie he doesn't think he'll like, Robin can watch a March madness game or five.

Stop trying to take away their bond oh my god people can be close to more than one person!!! Their best friend doesn't have to be dismissive or mean or whatever in order for a romance to be special to them!

#if i have to see another fic or whatever that makes it seem like robin doesnt give a shit about what steve likes and talkes about im going #to scream and maybe even rampage #its nice to sit down and have someone who knows explain who the players are and what the stakes for this particular game!! #just because yall seem to not think anyone can be nutral towards sports doesnt mean people aren't #literally why is it so hard to believe robin would like to hear steve talk as much as steve likes to hear her talk #i am so close to telling some steddie shippers to not look at steve or robin or their friendship because some of yall do Not get it. #its like you can see them go 'have to make sure eddie is the most perfect specialest boy for steve...well that means robin doesn't Get Him ' #or 'robin ignores him/dismisses his interests/isnt told everything happening in his life' like okay dont ever touch them again thanks #robin is steves specialest sunshine cupcake goober girl. steve is robins bestest happy times sweet funnyman. dont u dare take that away. #omce again tsgs longer than the post but ah well. #stobin #platonic stobin #robin buckley #steve harrington #stranger things #finda's rambles #steve and robin #this is a scheduled post just to jazz things up i guess #but seriously some of yall need to STOP MESSIGN WITH STOBIN

[rohirric-hunter]

I'm just torn between whether I want to flesh out Winterhome into an actual functioning town or play up all the inconsistencies and nonsense until I'm left having to conclude that no one actually even lives there except during the holiday season and everyone rolls in from other towns about two months before Yule and starts getting everything set up.

#lotro #or maybe theyre just like a travelling troupe that goes around and scams people from all over #blink twice if winterhome is being held hostage by travelling brigands who take over towns #and then hold elaborate christmas-themed pageants in them in order to extract money from nearby populace #but seriously how else am i supposed to interpret it with all the like. the 'work site' where people engage in oh so specific 'work' #in a game that is normally so extremely rich in detail weve got people banging on walls with hammers like its skyrim #what are they doing #are they repairing houses? then why is there a specific dedicated site for it? #do they only repair the houses in that one spot? #also where are the roads in and out of this place #is this perchance some kind of trap where you can get in but not get out #in the line of one of those rat traps where they climb into a bucket but cant climb out again? #anyway i think all that has too many implications. so were going the 'fleshing it out' route #also thats way funnier lets be honest

[bloodanddiscoballs]

Kim is a,fascist

are you stupid

#actually you perfectly articulated why i believe tumblr DE fans to be incredibly annoying and foolish #like im gonna explain more on this here in the tags #this is what i mean by the fact that i think not everyone should play this game #its a very complicated story and it requires you to really pick things apart and pay attention #and have really in depth uncomfortable conversations #many of those being political #its not an easy game to dive into and it takes a shitton of concentration and the willingness to put yourself in a space where youre ok wit #having really uncomfortable discussions and challenging your world view #and if you are not used to doing so without having basic kneejerk reactions to things and are someone who just doesnt allow themselves to #STOP AND FUCKING THINK #then DE is not going to be a game that will have any impact upon you #like yeah its got funny moments and people love to call it the funny communism game #but that is seriously such a pathetic way to look at a story that discusses the EXTREMELY COMPLICATED impact of systematic issues #like its a story that is not American or Western Centric made and that in and of itself is very important #the formation of the RCM is the specific way it is to have complicated conversations #so that one can hopefully avoid making really fucking stupid comments like the one you sent here #which btw reeks of you being American jsyk #anyway if you played this game and this was your take away just block me already #youre not someone who thinks #thats very clear #once you idk actually play the game and wanna have in depth conversations with me lmk #disco elysium

[dogboots]

blog that makes me happy vs nobody will ever take me seriously here as long as I post the way I do

#mousetalk #im aware that a lot of my biggest interests are for children. thats why this main blog looks like a seven year old designed everything #im also aware of how silly i tend to look to anybody who isnt myself. 'adult who likes things for children“ isnt really something you Want #to be known as because this makes you look stupid to folks who do not have or understand the childish stuff #which is pretty understandable. i do look silly taking cartoon dogs seriously and being converned over toy rabbits feelings and whatnot #im not so oblivous as to pretend that i dont lol #i just wish i could enjoy these things and still be taken seriously! im not angry at people for deciding they wont or deciding they dont #like me or deciding im some sort of strange freak who will never grow up. its valid when you consider the everything else about me. #just wish it didnt have to mean that any and all footholds i have in adult spaces werent null and void you know #itd be nice if the two things could coexist. #im really only rambling in the tags like this because having this childish blog as my main ends with me being blocked a Lot #which again! im not mad about! people can choose to interact with who they like and form whatever opinions they want #im just a little sad is all. i have plenty of (mature even!) interests outside of things like stickers or stuffed animals but i cant really #interact with these things here without somebody inevitably looking my way and going oh. another immature person. goodbye #or just assuming that im a child trying to wiggle my way into adult spaces by claiming i am one. according to 1 ask i recieved a while back #i dont know. this really isnt much of a complaint is it. 'people dont take my stuffed animals seriously' is about as stupid of a problem as #it gets haha #maybe someday ill suck it up and rebrand and stop talking about baby animals on my main blog #so i could finally follow a blog for something like a horror game franchise without being blocked on sight #or greeted reluctantly and with an eyeroll haha #TLDR; if this blog stops being happy funtimes it is nobodys fault but my own for being spineless about my own interests lol #i doubt anybody is reading this wall of text (hello if you are) but dont take anything i said in here personally #enjoy what you want to enjoy. dont let me or anybody else dictate that when your life on earth is so short #this is more just me with my own trivial issues that dont matter in the grand scheme of things #okay goodnight everybody thats it for the time being

[icewindandboringhorror]

Recent sky photos 

#still... I am not joking.. every time I post things like this it is so hard to narrow them down #I am almost as obsessed with the sky as I am with cats. I have a folder of just cloud pictures with like 650 photos in it right now #I don't post them all because I think it'd seem repetitive probably but just know... lol #that could be an entire blog or something.. hundreds and hundreds... #Like the same way that I cannot explain my obsession with cats or why they've imprinted into my brain so heavily - clouds are the same way #anyway.. .still have the costume photos and stuff like that I just havent edited and posted yet lol.. I will.. hoepfully have actual art #content and stuff thats not just random cat photos sometime soon. I'm just always so preoccupied at the beginning of the year with trying to #adjust to new goals and schedules.. plus.. still wokriong on that wretched little slideshow aaaaaaaaaaaa... it is going to take me... #a million yearbs..... #I just want the worldbuiling lore established so I can branch out and do other things.. aughhhh...... #also have to work on game videos and a few other vidoes.. still trying to keep up wiht the youtube a little.. I just havent been productive #like since new years as I've felt sicker with my stomach symptoms and stuff.. ToT ALSO I DID MAKE THAT ENTIRE interactive fiction game which #I still have no posted anywhere lol.. Because it was kind of to accompany something that I was doing on a game site (like imagine making a g #ame to go along with one of your neopets or something) but it works totally fine as a standalone thing as well like. so detached from the #lore of the game site in general that it'd be broadly understandable and is it's own thing of course (because I dont really like writing #other people's characters/in the confine's of other worlds so I made everything original as possible with just a loose tie in to the neopets #typw thing lol) - but I figured since it works on it's own I could post it publicly other places too like 'hey look I made something' since #that is...... kind of somehting that counts as like... being creatively productive lol? like I keep talking about getting nothing done while #also forgetting about the things I actually HAVE done. alas I continuously forget. Seriously I am so bad at social media. I am never exagger #ating for comedic effect or something. I am the type of person that could legit like. write and produce and direct and complete a movie #that will be million dollars shown in theaters or something and I would forget to mention it anywherte until like 5 months later and go 'oh #uh .. oh yeah.. i should post about that online somehwere probably.. oops' . Cursed with the 'forget about everything once it's complete' #trait. Like the way my brain works is just like. once I finish something I'm immediately like 'cool! onto the next thing!!' without processi #ng what i just did. I'm just always looking forward to the next thing. I'll finish sculptures and then throw them away or forget about them. #I take photos and they sit in the drafts for 6 months before I post them. Like to me the enjoyment comes from the PROCESS of making somehtin #g but I don't care as much about the end result so it just doesnt exist in my brain anymore once I'm done? idk.. anyway ghjbhj #SORRY.. trying to be more active. I want to make and sell sculptures again. sell all of my spare clothes too. stuff. things.. aaa.. ***

[perenlop]

for a romhack thats supposedly about darkrai, eots is reallyyyyyyyy obsessed with chatot. it also reallyyyyyyyy hates chatot.

#we gave the game an unreliable protagonist and narrator who is meant to be kinda terrible bc this is an ‘’off’’ take on the game #meant to feel uncanny and its supposed to be uncomfortable and creepy when the guild members reject you for your behavior #but god chatot is apparently sooooooo nasty and evil and lazy and corrupt we gotta introduce a whole new guy #just to back up the hero that yep!!! hes evil incarnate and nasty!! #the hero is unreliable except for when we wanna vent abt the characters we dont like #its not even that i like chatot and want to defend him it just feels so exhausting and weird #like i thought this was about darkrai why are you spending all these scenes talking about how chatot is horrible and mean #im sorry im not over brelooms backstory. its supposed to be unfair and gross and ik he didnt exactly deserve to get evicted or anything #but seriously???? it comes across like a teen throwing a fit that his mom asked him to do the dishes for one night #and then got upset when the dishes werent done the next morning and asked their mom why she didnt just suck it up and do them #i feel like a factor here is that people forget that the apprentices arent kids. even hero and partner while implied to be young can be seen #as young adults but everyone else comes across like an adult to me. so its not like theyre exploiting babies #echoed voice #it sucks bc other than this i like this romhack quite a bit! i think the stuff with hero is really interesting #i like the second timeline i like the uncomfortable changes i like how you actually make partner worse as an inversion to the vanilla game #but when the chatot stuff happens it takes me out of it. free my man he did some bullshit but not all that

[shopcat]

just thinking thoughts trying to articulate them but re: trans names and even "stereotypical" trans names i just think it's like. luckily it's died down for now at least on here or maybe i just follow people who aren't assholes but seriously what was with that whole era where people just made fun of people's names or tongue in cheek poked fun at each other with a little too much cruelty let alone done by CIS people... like that's so weird. like i do have what i'd call a Stereotypical Trans Name in that it's unusual and "weird" to other people and it's not even actually like, the most out there or individualistic thing ever it's just kind of an old timey name that isn't as popular anymore but i chose it specifically bc it was a "proper" name. and i STILL get shit for it like all the time. and it's just like. why do people CARE...

like. i know you can't make grand sweeping generalisations for a group of people as varied as every trans person on earth but for a lot of us i'd go ahead and say your name as a trans person and even just AS A PERSON... A HUMAN BEING is an important part of who you are and ties into your identity to a degree that differs from person to person. and for a trans person specifically can be one of the only things you have for... yourself, along with pronouns, especially in online spaces/if you're not out/if you are out but struggle for whatever reason to even be given the dignity of being called YOUR OWN NAME, etc. i'm not gonna harp on about that aspect forever bc i think we all know but it's just like, in the face of that annoying tiktok cunts making a list of "every transfem is called [blank] and every transmasc is called [blank]" and there being 6k comments talking about how stupid and unserious it all is is just NASTY. like man shut the fuck up 😭

i don't find it funny like 95% of the time i think it's just like mean ... i also know people could probably read this and be like shut up you're being annoying it's not that deep but like whatever man. i think it's basic decency to not make fun of people for something that's a part of who they are especially if that identity puts them at risk which to be real can affect pretty much everyone other than white cishet christians etc at FAR worse severity/cost and i think instilling the idea that "people's names are fair game" outside of actual tongue in cheek intercommunity good faith joking around is actually Bad. not that i'm actually comparing these things bc it's not 1:1 and has different levels but still i think it comes from the same like... source. the amount of times i've had people use my own name as if it's a gotcha in anon hate is actually astronomical and half of them don't even realise they're BEING literally transphobic is crazy. i mean i've joked about it and i don't take it that seriously but it's still like, transphobic and i hate these people it just also doesn't bother me because i'm a normal person who isn't actually insecure about it and who literally cares what someone's name is. and xfiles girls love me unintentional side effect.

#🐾 #like don't get me wrong i did pick the name bc i thought it WAS cute and a bit different and that made it like fun but like ?! how is that #a crime 😭😭 people naming themselves after nouns or angels or fictional characters has been happening forever first of all. and second it #just so seriously doesn't even matter #i also know that the notion of being like ''it's actually transphobic to make fun of a trans person who having a really typical western #english name'' could be weird bc like obviously they're not being targeted for THAT that's not what i'm saying it's just like. mean #to do to someone who chose their name (usually). esp if they're younger too like why are people bullying kids ... get a job ?! #i dunno... just thinkin... #also obv not comparable to you know. racism or antisemitism or antiblackbess etc and the way names being targeted there works #but it's also not like the asshole 16 year old boys on tiktok aren't also holding the same ideals #and i also don't really mean those things that are like Haha every transmasc is named [list of typical bames] though it is annoying #that's just like. well. like i said annoying. i just mean the amount of cunts who have been like is your name REALLY that #i can't believe that's your name i'd never take you seriously if that's true ... you mean that's your online name right like a pseudonym.. #you don't Really go by that it's not REAL it's something you CHOSE it's not Serious #LIKE DAMN!!!! shut up 😭 #also i actually have seen ppl make fun of a cultural name bc they thought it was a ''trans'' one and therefore fair game #''your name is literally [blank] 💀'' like ...?! #anywya this isn't super serious tldr it's just kinda weird hmmm...

[iwasneverth3re]

i accidentally picked up a cd

track 1 (opens on spotify)

LMAOO OF COURSE THE WEEKND IS THE FIRST TRACK LIKE OKAY JANN! I SEE YOU, I SEE YOU

Thats so sweet that you made a cd for Samuel <3

However

As his lawyer and bouncer, I'd like to know more songs that you associate him with before I let you into Jinyoung's ratty basement to see him and if they slap, then I'll let you save Sammy

#Idk why this suddenly became a game where your choices have consequences but HERE WE ARE #I animated the arrows going up and down but tumblr said the file was too big so I couldn’t upload it :’) #anyway don’t take this too seriously #I just wanna know more about your music taste bc I love discussing music with people! #plus I know u got superior music taste especially after seeing u say that u associate Samuel with party monster?? #WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MY HEART JANN <\3 #Jann!!🤍 #li li speaks💬 #li li's asks💬

[zefforuins]

-/&;3;

#made myself mad thinking abt characters and things that don’t matter yet again #going to type my thoughts out here and then distract myself so I get over it LMAO #anyway. a heem heem #at the end of the day it does not matter. how people draw fictional characters. I can always find artists who draw them how I like and I do #but. because I am in a bad mood today. I just think that people who. draw Jason Todd like. really skinny. drives me insane #not necessarily just like the existence of it cause I am used to it but like when it’s him with other characters who are also skinny #I’m like hey why is he the same body type as his 17 year old brother? #and listen. Gotham knights Jason is not my favorite Jason #they fucked up his hair real bad. he looks older than he should according to when the game takes place. but whenever I see someone comment #on his build in the game?? I’m baffled. it’s pissing me off at this point tbh. like I’m sorry 1. not everyone is a size 0 just because you #find it hot. and 2. do you seriously expect. the character who’s whole think is being very strong. and beating people up nightly. #who’s fighting style is much heavier than his acrobat brothers style. to…be skinnier than said brother? #genuinely I think that gk Jason is generally how Jason SHOULD be built 99% of the time. like AK Jason and GK Jason. that’s peak #and it’s always ppl who like. when you look thru their art that body type is the ONLY body type they draw. and I’m like 🤨🤨🤨 is this like #bleeding into fatphobia territory now? not that gk Jason is fat because he VERY much isn’t. but they just draw character sooooooo skinny #as if their whole deal isn’t being physically strong!!! #atp I would rather every character look like 90s xtrme comics drawn by 40 yr old men where their arms are bigger than their heads and you #can see every muscle cause at least it makes somewhat more sense given their jobs ･_･ even tho it is ridiculous in its own way #my post #and it is my least fav comic art style LMAO #but anyways #nothing matters and I surround myself with love and light and I and the smartest person in the world who knows more about my favs than them #<3

[neverendingford]

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#contemplating the existence of loving yet uncommitted relationships. relationships of mutual convenience not romantic but still not platonic #tag talk #like. I want intimacy. I want to love and be loved. but the usual understanding of that is that you are committed. you are locked in. #taking a break from a relationship is code for “we're breaking up”. there's is no getting out without destroying the bond #I wonder if the classic Tom Cruise c love a woman but next movie she's dead“ trope could be seen as a version of that. #a socially acceptable way to love someone until you're done and then move on to the next thing. #a lot of my hookups have been a one time deal even though I would have liked to see them again. because they got too attached. #people see love and presume romance. people see openness and presume emotional connection and commitment. #if your friend is having a rough time and needs to disappear for a week. that's okay. but a partner suddenly can't. #there's less permissable distance in a romantic relationship. #why can't I do the classic spaghetti western thing? ride into town. help out and be appreciated for it. and then leave when I feel it's time #cue that magnificent seven quote that's like “cowboys are like the wind and farmers are like the land”. there are different ways to live #and social interaction is a numbers game. meeting people until you finally find someone you're compatible with. #and the more particular or non-standard you are. the more your success pool narrows. or at least that's how it feels #I know the reality is that there's more relationship diversity out there than it seems. because divergence is suppressed and hidden. #but that contributes to it being harder to find. more difficult to seek. more culturally shameful to pursue. #I don't think I've ever seen a fwb relationship in media that's not either played for laughs or turned into a romance eventually #the classic “men want fwbs and women want a committed relationship” ☠️ it's not a concept that gets taken seriously. #I just.. ugh. I feel like I'm pushing against the entire weight of my upbringing because what I innately desire is so far from acceptable #and I've unlearned so much self criticism and policing. but there's so much more to go and I just. ugh. it's so exhausting

[robotnikium]

tfw the hedgehog doesn't even know his own fate

so i'm going on an INSANE blog making spree right now, right? so it's the lowest priority. but. like. i would make a starved eggman sideblog. mostly out of spite. because everything is stupid rn w the sonic.exe mod.

#IMAAAAAAGINE TELLING THE KIDS WHO MADE YOUR MOD POPULAR THAT THEIR GAME IS CRINGE AND THEY CANT MAKE YOU FANART ANYMORE #HELLO?? HELLO. WHY ARE YOU BANNING HIM FROM GAMEBANANA #''WAAAAAAH I WANT PEOPLE TO TAKE STARVED EGGMAN SERIOUSLY SO HE'S NO LONGER AN FNF MOD WAAAAAH'' DO YOU KNOW HOW INSANE YOU SOUND ARE YOU K #HE SAYS THAT STUPID ASS LINE. HE'S JUST A RED BLOB. OWN YOUR CRINGE OR PASS HIM OFF PUSSY #LIKE SERIOUSLY THE FNF SONIC.EXE MOD DEV SHIT IS SOOOOO INSANE RN YOU GUYS DONT OWN SONIC #IM SPITING ALL OF YOUR STUPID ASSES. LET KIDS HAVE FUN. FUCK OFF

[dizzyrobinsims]

SO I stumbled on my first cishet couple I actually ship in one piece (Sanji and Pudding because they are both absolute idiots in ways that compliment each other), went to tags And I found out people actively ship Luffy/Nami, which. Ok cool everyone ships what they want. ...but then I saw long post after long post insisting that they are Canon and End Game.

Which. Yikes.

My brain actually imploded a bit ngl. Especially as at this point we’ve seen Oda is actually half decent at romance set up when he tries and realizing what people used to insist on it is like. Times when they are vaguely in the same panel but not even right next to each other, or Nami acting towards Luffy like everyone in the crew does, or Luffy acting towards Nami like he does everyone in the crew T_T I mean dude if we are making End Game arguments with stuff like that Sanji/Luffy is more than end game at this point (and no I don’t ship them).

But sidenote this is why one of my ships is just The Thousand Sunny aka all these bitches are dating each other it’s a huge ass polycule. Because the dynamics are SO GOOD between everyone like hell.

#fandom rambles #Like with how good a writer Oda is if he wanted it to be canon there would be WAY more set up #especially as we are in the final saga now #tbh at this point I don't want Luffy to end up with anyone #in canon I mean #fanfics are fair game #Also I say first cishet couple but like I just mean 'as far as we know' tho Sanji being genderqueer is a reading with a ton of evidence #why do people take shipping so seriously btw #like my dudes chill these are paper dolls we are making kiss

[timeisacephalopod]

Sometimes I remember that time I said I hated gym class in ninth grade and my teacher was Big Offended because she overheard me say that and thought it appropriate to snap 'then why are you in this class?' only to be immediately shut down when I reminded her ninth grade gym class is a requirement to get your high school degree lmao

#winters ramblings #predictably i didnt get a response she walked away #like wtf why are you even offended that i didnt like a class thats humiliating to anyone who isnt already athletic #like sorry all the jocks were there and theyd always treat my inability to play sports like a personal offense against them #and also i fucking hate sports playing OR watching i dont like games at all even if they arent sports #i find them boring and mindnumbing and people take it all way too fucking seriously for something that doesnt mean anything #basically sports and gym were nothing but stress and failure but sure act like an ass because a 14 year old doesnt like your class #and then do so in a way that ignores how high school degree requirements work lmao like wtf ekse would i be doing there?? #i never did a gym class again and honestly im mad i never learned anything in gym regardless #its allegedly to teach exercise habits but i never got taught shit except how to play volleyball like thats a life skill i cant do without #the fitness ckassthat showed up after i left seemed useful because it was ALL learning how to work out correctly #and the teacher apparently wasnt a dick but gym is public humiliation and should be thrown out #replace it with real fitness classes and stop making gym just jocks who are good at sports and maybe kids like me wont hate it 🤷🏻‍♀️

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

like honestly just give your non binary characters traditionally "gendered" features. just do it. it's not like being androgynous ever stopped non binary characters from being misgendered.

frisk undertale and kris deltarune were androgynous and are only ever referred to by "they/them" and ppl are still arguing over how the "main character is not the player but their own person" message didn't apply to their genders bc they refuse to wrap their head around different pronouns. raine owlhouse was paraded around as "disney's first ever nb representation" by everyone and their mother but bc they have short hair other countries dub them as male. this also happens to most anime nb characters bc of how japanese pronouns work. halara raincode literally has the color scheme of the non binary flag AND their in-game profile says that they, and i quote "have no specified gender" AND several characters remark on it in the actual game but bc theyre voiced by a female voice actor ppl still call them a woman.

like literally at this point just give your nb characters huge tits and a massive beard. if ppl refuse to accept the existence of non binary characters in media, then there is no way to make a character non binary "enough" to convince them otherwise. no matter how much you hammer in their androgyny in an attempt to detach them from "male" and "female," there will be people determined to assign gender roles to any trait you give your character.

creators being hesitant to give their non binary characters traits that could be associated with a binary gender is why every goddamn genderqueer character that the creator wants you to take seriously in popular media has shoulder length hair and a board-flat figure and a perfectly neutrally pitched voice. like. just do what you want at this point. the character is non binary because your story said so and people who misgender them would have done that no matter how androgynous they look.

#shut up pandora #frisk undertale #kris dreemurr #deltarune #undertale #raine whispers #the owl house #halara nightmare #master detective archives: rain code #nonbinary #representation

[jessielefey]

One should play the Drakengard/nier games in reverse publishing order in order to get the most out of them. Like how Bloodborne can be said as to "teach you how to play Souls games", Automata followed by Drakengard 3 followed by Replicant teaches you how to read Drakengard as a metacommentary in a way that conceptually proves "just starting from the first game in the series" is doomed to leave you confused and angry and heartbroken; in this essay I will...

#but seriously: thing that seems to have been lost by new kids jumping on from automata... the meme used to be 'cavia hates you' #or to give it more context: cavia got sorta notorious as like evil!Kojima games; cavia *loves* games but *hates* players #yoko taro doesn't hate us anymore but he remembers when he did #and it's all over the newer games this... sorta step-by-step guide on how to read theme into game mechanics #if you just go from Automata -- a love letter -- to the first Drakengard -- an active sneering declaration of war... #it's not hard to see why people just bounce off like 'wow this game is shit'; bad-on-purpose/bad-for-a-purpose is sketch ground to pick #but the both necessary and entirely unnecessary ten thousand automata endings? that's a lesson. #drakengard 3 going so meta its plot implodes and all you're left with is the symbolic story? another #nier literally mocking you for doing unnecessary side quests and the only good ending is to literally not-play? now you're almost ready #if you can appreciate *what the game is saying* in nier by the easy gameplay doing just about everything to get you to the end #the same end that tells you your effort was less than pointless and then lights it on fire as it makes you watch #*now* you're ready to look at drakengard's maliciously jank gameplay and story that actively punishes you for digging and understand #(reason why nier both is and is not a drakengard game is in the difference between the maliciously too-easy gameplay #and 'we're the bad guys' this was all futile conclusion and drakengard's maliciously too-hard gameplay #and 'we're the bad guys but from the opposite angle' we as devs are literally laughing at you conclusion) #(and you can see that best in drakengard 3 which *is* a drakengard game through and through even with less jank mechanics) #heh hot take: drakengard and pathologic are kissing cousins #also also: Drakengard is to NIN's Hurt as Automata is to Cash's Hurt #(((but where's the essay OP? in the tags apparently; keep up :-p)))

[alchemiclee]

4 and 20 for the Artist Ask Game! 👀

4. Fav character/subject that's a bitch to draw

not sure about character...but subject? probably poses/anatomy in general. still bad at it. brain can't quite comprehend shapes lol all the anatomy tutorials just go in one ear/eye and out the other. no brain process in between 😅 same with lighting/shadows. basic art things make me trip and fall

20. Something everyone else finds hard to draw but you enjoy

eyes?? do people think eyes are hard? I always enjoyed doing eyes. maybe hair. hair is fun but i've seen many people say it's hard

#ask games #thank you for sending numbers!!!! #answering these im realizing how much i pretend i know what im doing but i know nothing even after endless tutorial videos and #reading stuff and taking classes. its more of a fake it to you make it and wing it and hope for the best lmao #just follow your heart and dont use your brain at all. head empty when arting. no thought process there. no technical skils applied #maybe this is why people who have done art fkr 3 years tell me to practice more. usuallt theyre art students. they see lack of skill #even though ive been drawing for like 25 years fhdhdjddnkdd #cant think technically and follow the “rules” when brain wanders off into some orher realm and forgets everything and experiments #and forgets how reality works. is hard to explain but my brain ks bad at learning and everything it “learns” is oil while brain is water #people love telling me “watch youtube videos! read things! take a class!” as if that will magically make oil stay mixed with water #oops how did this turn to a whole ramble lmao #lee rambles #but seriously i feel like people see this lack of skill and just feel my art is off and maybe that's why i dont have successful art #after 25+ years of “practice” and at least 10 years of posting it online. is that the secret? having a brain that can acrually learn #and apply what it learns. instead of relying on instinct or something lmao. in that case im screwed 😆 #it miggt just be an uncaught learning disability of some kind because i cant explain why my brain is so bad at learning things! #ok done rambling. didnt mean to make this a ramble rant post lmao