#without us players seeing it

[flashhwing]

I need to confess something so I’m gonna put it in the tags and hope that nobody who Knows will see dhsksj

#THIS ISNT BAD OR DRAMA OR DISCOURSE OR ANYTHING this is me being like teehee I did something I’m not supposed to #anyway my latest dnd group is like a subset of an existing discord #so our dm created a thread so he can talk about campaign spoilers with the rest of the server #without us players seeing it #but secretly ………….. I check the tag regularly #IM CAREFUL THO about things #I only look at spoilers that pertain either to myself or the campaign at large #I DONT LOOK at anything to do with the other players and their backstories #(okay I did see ……….. one thing I’m not supposed to) #(but I PROMISE I can keep the secret! I can act like I don’t know!) #AND LIKE OKAY TO BE FAIR ALSO a lot of what I’ve seen is stuff that’s like. well I do not know what this means because I don’t have context #or like ‘here’s an npc that is blorbo’ #and since it’s a pre written module that I haven’t read but others in the thread have #the dm doesn’t expand on it so I don’t know what they’re talking about anyway! #and there were a few things I snooped on they went and later told me about privately anyway so y’know what. that’s fine dhsksjsh #I’m just a nosy person who enjoys spoilers okay and I don’t think I’ve done anything that’ll ruin things for me #OR ANYONE ELSE because despite appearances I CAN keep a secret #(okay the thing I know about another character would’ve been a really interesting reveal if I didn’t know) #(but since I do I can consider it. dramatic irony! for me and me alone mwahahaha) #delete later

[turtleblogatlast]

Leo being put into a situation where there is absolutely no fighting, just verbal manipulation and perception games, would be amazing to witness. We see a lot in the series how good he is at subterfuge and how he uses his perception to manipulate to great effect, so it’d be so cool to really see it put to the test even more.

Manipulation is one of the most effective tactical strategies of all time, so just imagine Leo putting this skillset of his to the full test. Imagine the boys slowly get up to busting bigger and more powerful criminals, including those with networks of crime under their belt, and a simple fight isn’t enough to take them down. For criminals like this, Leo’s skills in subterfuge would be deadly.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt leo #rottmnt headcanons #me back to talking about Leo’s incredibly high affinity for subterfuge #genuinely think it’s one of if not his best and most honed skill #AND IT’S A VITAL NINJA SKILL #above fighting battle tactics and the like #it’s verbal blindspots #Sun Tzu’s The Art of War literally states that “the greatest victory is won without battle’’ #and idk I think Leo would be so good at this and we see him do it in the show quite a bit but not to the amount I yearn for #but yeah like just think Leo getting sent in and his bros standing guard #of course he wouldn’t be the ONLY one involved but 100% he’d be the main player #man idk I just really really love when their specific skill sets that ARENT the fighting ones are used it’s so interesting to me #like we already know Leo can easily take in a whole room’s worth of people and know exactly how to avoid them all #we know he can manipulate manipulators into his schemes #we know he’s good at improv which is essential to the games of speech high end criminals like to play #it would be SO INTERESTING #OKAY HEAR ME OUT- #he’s asked by Big Mama to join her at a criminal ball of sorts #she needs to regain power and he needs to take down big name criminals #thus a deal #no but really it’s so cool seeing Leo specifically do his best tactics through thinking like his enemy and predicting how they’d act

[thesimquarter]

Mostly a continuation of this post, Sims 2 DS Edition. An approximate height line-up based off of each model's Z-dimension.

+ Closer pictures because the lineup is a HUGE image and Tumblr destroyed the quality of it.

#sims 2 ds #some of these models look SO goofy #there's also some fun details that i don't think i would have noticed without looking at the models like this #now TBF i've had a decent amount of the models saved already from a few months ago #i just had to re-rip some of them to ensure a neutral standing position #i used melon ripper to get these so i can't like #formally extract the models w/ rigs to upload them to modeler's resource or whatever #it's nice to see the models with a good resolution #and i'm willing to take more angles of the models + share the blend files if anyone wants to see more of what the models look like #the random two sims there is my protag + a random female protag for Size Reference w/ the player

[risingsunresistance]

sunrise ☀️

#YAYYYYY YIPPEE MY TREAT FOR DOING TASKS TODAY. FINALLY LETTING MYSELF DRAW SOMETHING #THIS WAS NOT THE ORIGINAL PLAN FOR THE DRAWING AT ALL BUT THIS IS BETTER I THINK #it's not perfect but That's Okay i'm allowed to post art that isn't my best (<- affirmations) #it's been a while since i used that brush :D i couldnt see myself making a background without it so i just. didnt even try JHDJGH #dante was described on priv as chewy btw i just need to let that be known. im glad bc i was going for squishy slime creature #sb #my art #rising sun #technoblade #(that is techno btw! just in the rising sun gear so 99% of him is covered jhdjgh) #i was gonna include energy being sent to him to from the players scattered around. ya know like how the dialogue goes #but then i finished part of it and decided to leave it alone bc i liked that way more #just pretend that all the mana has already been sent his way. pictures taken moments before disaster (for dante)

[mcyt-trios]

Welcome to the Stats post!!! Warning!! Lots of stats and graphs with text on them ahead! With that said, click Read More to view the whole post!!

For the most submitted people, regardless of what trio they are from, here are the numbers!! Grian came in with a smashing first place at 233 submissions, with a relatively even and natural decline from there.

Next on our list, the most submitted for SMP's regardless of trio!

We have our top 3 SMP's, and top 3 by a long shot, with Hermitcraft alone making up more than 1/4 of all the submissions, and the Dream SMP and Traffic SMP/Life Series each taking up just under 1/5 of all submissions. It is a dramatic jump to 4th place, but a happy surprise to see in 4th, Lifesteal!! Which has more submissions than the QSMP or Empires SMP!! Congrats guys!!

And finally, the moment you've all been waiting for, here are your most submitted for trios!!!

Coming in at first place, no questions asked, no competition we have the Buttercups!! Made of Grian, Mumbo, and Scar. They have exactly 100 submissions which is very satisfying. A difference of 33 submissions between first and second! Wow!

The next large leap down is from 5th to 6th where we have the Bad Boys in 5th (Grian, Joel, and Jimmy) and Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss (Scott, Pearl, and Cleo) in 6th! A 21 submission difference there!

All trios listed in the top 25 will be in the final bracket, as well as many not seen here. We have trios in the bracket that have as little as just 3 submissions! So if you didn't see your favorite trio here, don't loose hope! They still might be in the final bracket!

With that said, the bracket announcement will be up tomorrow, everything is done and ready, so get hype!! Thank all very much for supporting this project!! <3

#not polls #submission updates #mod skater #bracket #stats #graphics #I have never made an ID before so if someone wants to make IDs for these graphics we will reblog with your ID! #Once again thank you everyone for your submissions!! We can't do it without you! #If there was a trio or player or SMP you didn't see the stats of on this post (since i can only fit so many in 1 graphic) #feel free to send us an ask and ask about them!!

[mitskijamie]

Jamiegender scholars should we discuss the recurrant emasculation by older men

#oc #also very interesting how much of this comes from Roy if you read Roy as a closeted gay or bi man #I actually read a really interesting article about the sharp left turn in attitudes towards homosexuality in men's sports #and how in the 90's (which wouldve been the height of Roy's career) <10% of male athletes surveyed described themselves as 'pro gay' #compared to 93% in 2022 #and how it's common for male athletes to kiss each other/share beds/outwardly express love for each other which didnt used to be the case #Roy was loved and valued his entire career for being angry and aggressive and soldiering through pain without help #('Your anger makes you the player that you are' Roy Kent will never leave on a stretcher' 'I played hurt all the time') #and Jamie (who he sees so much of his younger self in) is living in a much better world where that expection isnt nearly as heavy and I can #see the resentment there #I'm fine with him playing hurt I played hurt all the time. I had to suffer so should he. it's not fair it's not fair it's not fair #this makes NO sense im literally like a little girl playing insane dramas with barbies #jamiegender

[shadowslocked]

Hmmm if CC!Forever is gone gone from QSMP then I wonder if him having @v@ locked away is a way to keep the character around if he ever wanted to come back? Granted he could also just pull a “Q!Forever remained in prison/died while @v@ hopped ship to a new host”

But it’s kinda sad and a little unsatisfying if this is the full stop ending because Q!Forever didn’t get to say goodbye to anybody or have any sort of final words, we never got to see a full glimpse at the Forever trapped within @v@. And there’s a tragedy in that but it sits heavy like a brick, making the ending a bit harder to swallow

#qsmp #qsmp forever #it’s the kinda trick I could see a role player using #if they wanted to dip out for an extended time #either way I hope he has fun in Stonks #server won’t feel quite the same without him

[goldlightsaber]

I find it interesting that Jesse Armstrong and others refer to Roman Roy as a "playboy" and say that he "goes back to being a playboy" in the finale cause like....where? I feel like Roman is someone that just wants everyone to think he's a playboy and "drowning in pussy", when he is clearly...not? Time and time again, it's been shown that he can't really fuck a woman and can go quite a long time without doing so. Unless you count what happens with Gerri as sex. To me it has always seemed that he is simply posturing as the kind of man who is capable of "getting pussy", that he is exhibiting a performative joy in objectifying them and fucking on the regular, and that he makes his statements disgusting enough that people don't want to pry into the truth of it any further. And what effect does that achieve, other than to be closer to whatever version of masculinity Logan might've deemed best? Or the closest version Roman is capable of achieving? What Roman lacks in corporate ambition and focus, he makes up for in exaggerated, lewd sex talk. It achieves the effect of making him seem preoccupied with sex, just the way a "normal," testosterone-oozing man would. But as we know, he is actually having very little. This is all to say, "Playboy where?"

#roman roy #succession #do any of y'all see him as a playboy because i sure as fuck do not #he says 'oh yeah i'd fuck that in a minute' and then just...doesn't. lmao #and no player/playboy/womanizer/fuckboy i've ever known seems capable of lasting very long (no pun intended) without hooking up #the whole essence of being a playboy/fuckboy is using women for your personal benefit. to finish. and then discard them #and move on to the next #meanwhile roman like. lives with women. doesn't fuck them. ever. and then develops an emotional (repressed) attachment to the one woman #that does actually get him off lol. #a true playboy would kill themselves before ever making an attachment like that lmao #ANYWAY! #idk why im in the mood for this tonight i guess i just have a lot of opinions on this i guess #i think they tried to WRITE him to be a playboy. and then kieran's performance just...turned that shit around #into something far more interesting #text

[badolmen]

I can fix him*

*bad writing, underutilized gameplay mechanics, characters with unfulfilled potential, funded by bootlickers

#ra speaks #personal #sorry I made dr phone calls and have like. ten minutes til I gotta get ready for first class of the semester. let me have this. #I think I should get every COD game ever for free. it’s MY tax dollars at work after all (actually anything produced w us military funding #should be free I think I can trap even my bootlicker tax hating dad into getting onboard w this one) #anyways. ghosts was…decent. but jfc if you give me a silent protag I expect SOME self awareness in the writing. #why are characters calling to him on comms when they know he won’t respond? why doesn’t he have an AAC device or something more futuristic? #I’m just saying if you explicitly limit a character you need to respect those limits in te writing. it’s not that hard. #like non of the characters even acknowledge that Logan never talks. esp weird when he first meets the ghosts #also. obv not a big fan of ‘all of South America has United into evil space terrorists’ but it was 2013 so ¯\ _(ツ)_/¯ #wish we got to see some SDC civis y’know? get a bear on the average attitudes abt the whole. invading the US thing. #(jfc do not get me started on The Wall like this is a 2016 trump voter’s power fantasy) #also Riley was such an interesting mechanic why couldn’t they have at least substituted him w drones or something on the other missions?? #you get him for like. two missions. and then he gets shot and you have to protect him (gosh I actually loved that section) #just. it was clear Logan was The Dog Guy with an aptitude for tech. honestly Hesh felt more like the MC than Logan. #and while Logan doesn’t have a ton of personality we can glean as a result of non speaking + ZERO communication at all ever #seriously he doesn’t even like. wave or give thumbs up to people wtf dude do ppl just assume he’s psychic or something??? #I do LOVE the few scenes we get with him acting outside of player control/where he actually has agency (Elias’ death. the final cutscene) #and like it’s not much but it’s enough that I WANT to see what happens next #but alas. a decade old game without a true sequel (I think??? haven’t actually looked into it.) #my brother is making fun of me for being a COD gamer now like boy. I have no defense pls be nice to me T-T

[zaptap]

the one nice thing about splatoon 1 online going down is it'll be legal to trans your gender to octoling. not just because there's no online for nintendo to ban you from but also because pretendo said they're allowing it

#and when i say trans your gender i mean yes the 3 genders in the game are girl/boy/octoling #you CAN play as an octoling without being banned if you use mods i believe but that just shows up for you #i think under pretendo you'd be able to see other players as octolings if they do it by changing the gender #splatoon

[blujayonthewing]

thinkin again about the time elyss's DM cut in to stop a conversation between her and a semi-retired player character to hurriedly take back control of him as an NPC before he could give her, as an extremely kind and thoughtful gift, one of his own personal belongings, and then said 'elyss can probably buy it from him though :)' instead

like. what an egregiously fucking shitty thing to do, actually.

#I think we were caught SO offguard that neither of us was able to articulate a good resistance although we both tried #eldryn's player: ...I mean... he WAS going to just give it to her #DM: haha well I don't wanna just give you guys too much stuff [???] #me: I mean-- you JUST gave us like? ten thousand gold and a castle that we didn't even ask for ......? #I HAVE the money [2000g????] and I don't actually care about losing it but.............??? #DM: yeah so I just feel like I've already given you guys a lot lately #WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN SAID WAS: THAT WAS A GIFT BETWEEN CHARACTERS NOT 'THE DM GIVING US TOO MUCH'. #WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN SAID WAS 'YOU ARE CHANGING A KIND GESTURE FROM A GOODHEARTED MAN INTO A CRAVEN EXPLOITATION OF ELYSS FOR MONEY.' #WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN SAID WAS 'TAKING OVER A PLAYER CHARACTER IN THE MIDDLE OF A CONVERSATION BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT ELYSS TO HAVE A THING #'IS AN ABUSE OF DM POWER AND AN EGREGIOUS BREACH OF DM/ PLAYER TRUST.' #WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN SAID WAS 'WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU HAVE AGAINST ELYSS AND/OR ME PERSONALLY.' #and like. the actual consequences are so small. we were in a between-arcs timeskip we had BBEG Treasure Hoard money #Elyss loses 2000g and doesn't even miss it. Eldryn being a good friend IS canon and the DM can suck my dick about it #but on principle. on principle the fact that he did that. that is so incredibly shitty. you don't see that? #and for what? over an arbitrary price tag that I could afford without even missing it anyway? #over a magic item that's more psychological security blanket than anything particularly overpowered? #over powerplay dick waving over who REALLY gets to control Eldryn now that he's technically been retired as a PC? #what?? what is the reason??? ALL it accomplished was a fucking character assassination of a sweetheart character #which I think we've all privately decided didn't actually happen anyway because it's stupid and terrible and not fair of DM to Just Decide #and my already pretty flimsy trust in my friend as a DM sinking to unforeseen new lows #god. god. #about me #my OCs #elyss

[waugh-bao]

“Beat-wise the fastest track the Stones have ever cut or any other rock and roll song. It even beats ‘Rip This Joint’, which is always considered to be the fastest track ever cut. But it does come roaring at this beautiful beat and that's why I've been saying about Charlie Watts.

[The album] starts with Charlie and it actually ends with Charlie, the whole record, so you know, I can go on and on about him, and everybody else yeah, great, really. But to me the real pleasure is playing with Charlie Watts, who is right on the top of his game. And that makes it much easier for me. Then I can really fly, you know what I mean.”

Keith comments on ‘Flip The Switch’ (1997)

#'I know other people exist in this band. I just don't care about anyone but Charlie. and I don't want to talk about anyone but Charlie' #I mean...what can you even say to that? #it's not just beyond parody #it's beyond the scope of normal human reason to comprehend #'it starts with Charlie and it ends with Charlie' #yeah. why am I not surprised that that's the case when you're 50% of the team editing/mastering it Keith? #'then I can really fly' #I'm in love with the way he always uses this analogy for their musical relationship #as though Charlie is so powerful and unique that he gave him wings #it's like when he starts talking about how all of his inspiration for riffs comes from Charlie. or how Charlie believing in him #is the only reason he's become the player he has and has written the most lasting songs in his catalogue #he truly sees himself as nothing without that man #the rolling stones #charlie watts #keith richards #old married band #quote

[n1ghtwarden]

what i find interesting is how minth 'regrets' or carries guilt for her hand and body being used (against her will) under the absolute. she says "i remember every face and life" or something to that extent. it is important to her that we, the player, know this. she thinks about them. they weigh on her. it's not regret in any traditional sense. minth herself says she has violent intentions - and how she was raised to respond with violence has shaped her interactions with others and the world around her. when she is violence, there is, in minth's mind, always a cause to justify it - she has been hurt, she is making a statement - or in the case of raiding (because girl has razed towns while raiding) for supplies, territory, defense et cetera. it's the regret of senseless violence, it's the regret of killing without any sort of justification for it in minth's mind other than sick bloodlust and impulse - it's the regret of losing control of her body and mind, literally, and being unable to stop it or gain control again until intervention from the prism. minth responds to hurts and slights with violence ( and she enjoys doing so )- but she wants these things to be justified, because she cannot get the satisfaction from striking without that justification. she'll never strike without what she considers to be just cause or provocation; doubly so if it falls in line with the tenants of her oath.

#tw: violence #awful. just an awful woman ( i love her ) #HEADCANONS. grant silence upon those who would betray it. #she makes it plain to us she never harms without intent MULTIPLE and honestly as much as it is part of her trying to regain her agency or #show her agency - she also wants to mentally separate herself from orin (aka The Worst Forced Found Family Ever). #it's important to minth that both we (player) and herself knows that she is NOT like orin and escaped that fate despite seeing herself in #orin. ANYWAY. #girl sleeps peacefully knowing she's killed hundreds and hundreds but draws the line at what she knows is senseless slaughter. #like. she is NOT losing sleep or feeling guilty abt the other shit. the absolute shit tho. THAT'S HAUNTING HER. only because she's seen #the horror she is truly capable of under that influence. anyway. ANYWAY.

[eugeniedanglars]

not people on reddit saying episode 5 of tlou was better than episode 3 because episode 3 was too “sentimental” while episode 5 captured the brutality of the game as though a huge part of what made episode 3 great wasn’t the fact that it was an unexpected spot of beauty and tenderness and love in the middle of an otherwise bleak story the same way bill and frank’s town was an oasis of peace and comfort in a harsh world

#to be clear this is not at all a universally held reddit opinion but i’m shocked by how many people are saying episode 5 is better than 3 #i thought episode 5 was like….. good but not anything groundbreaking no pun intended #also the tonal contrast between the two episodes was very intentional #the despair of ep5 wouldn’t hit as hard without the sweetness of ep3 and vice versa #i think some people are still just looking to see their favorite moments from the game brought to life #and that’s fine but as a non-game player i don’t have that same attachment to things like the bloater or the sniper nest #it admittedly doesn’t help that while i knew things ended badly for sam and henry #i didn’t know exactly what happened until it was spoiled for me only hours before the episode came out #so i spent the whole episode just waiting for it to happen and didn’t get to be shocked by it #the last of us

[dimitrscu]

what’s with this weird argument of wanting bosses to fight you with honor in fromsoft games? wtf does that even mean, have they ever played these games before lmao. players will use the most op meta builds and cheese strats to win but then complain the boss is ‘cheating’ simply because they got their shit rocked by them. brother you are playing a video game. malenia hit you and healed herself because you were busy mashing r1 in a blind panic hoping you could dps her down before she got waterfowl off

#‘her random ass hyper armor’ look if you take the time to actually look at her fight you’ll notice she does it on the same attacks/dodges #you see this is what happens when you have a boss that can be stunned on hit #because players get greedy thinking they can stunlock her #but of course she has various moves that will get her out of that situation right? #makes sense from a design perspective right? #so because of this people get greedy and then get mad when she manages to jump out of the spam attack #the other day i did a fight with her with m*rgott’s sword and only used the weapon art #it took me quite a few attempts to pull it off without her countering me somehow #which to be fair she should be able to do #it was only because of rng that it worked in the end #pure luck if you will #but technically she shouldn’t just stand there and let you stunlock her to death #the way some folks get so angry playing this game it makes me wonder why they play in the first place #elden ring

[aloysarrow]

I wish GI wasn't trying to push people (kinda specifically longer players) away from the game, like damn. I really hope new players are watching closely and not just deciding "there are haters" or "complainers." Some of the things, like the age old where's the end-of-game road map, have been actual game needs that haven't been addressed for years. Game needs, guys. Idk, if you still call some people haters/complainers, then I'm probably gonna call you a bootlicker lol

#also three pulls for three debate clubs is actually insulting and no. we were not happy about it last year either #i hope the CN community causes such a ruckus that they fix the artifact loadout bullshit #GI actually needs to apologize and ive said some wild things elsewhere like they need to give a free 5* character but honestly i just want #to see that theyre are listening to the fucking players. we fund their game and/or promote it with playing and community on platforms #they wouldnt have BILLIONS of money without the pkayers and they are not doing QoL things or fixing busted characters or the artifact #loadout that is going to be more trouble than useful. end of game information. lost weapons to timed events - im lucky i have cinnabar #spindle in case i get Albedo but i dont have that Festering sword or Jade Cutter? and both are apparently great for Furina and im pissed #that they just wont be available ever again. they heed to put them in the shop like they do the skins and im so serious about that #theres so much more #it just makes me sad bc i do really like genshin but im probably gonna move on after this all blows up or when nothing happens at all #genshin impact #my posts #oh right my frustration is with the community on the mihoyo app bc even just saying you think this is a good thing will bring in the REAL #bootlickers telling you youre ungrateful for three debate clubs lmao. i have never called it copium before but i think that if youre calling #players ungrateful for being mad that GI's appreciation for a year of playing and/or spending money is worth three 3*weapons then youre a #boooootlicker with a sad fucking addiction. seriously cope harder bro lol #i really just want them to fix the artifact loadout that shit is buuullshit. and of course i want Aloy’s constellations. they should have #been there September 2021 ffs. and i like Dehya. i like playing her too. im not meta enough to notice things i guess but hyv should have #listened to players about her. #this shouldnt be a staff of homa moment guys. that bullshit actually made change happen for the better like why are you mad at the demand #QoL things???? why are you just ok with no actual patches patching anything??? #ok i gotta be done. the tags are the actual post damn lol