#y'all who would win

[hychlorions]

#.docx #i told nick what this world needed was klapolly fistfight #and we started discussing who we think would win #nick said they both lose and i'm inclined to agree #but what are y'all's thoughts #arguments for apollo: has canonically punched someone #arguments for klavier: has an older brother. also wears rings (ouchieee) #arguments for both of them losing: they have the physiques and personality of old men so they got too tired to go on. also it would be funn #i have nothing for them tying.

[sasperine]

look i love loid x yor but if we don't get a solid one to one fight b/w them i'll be so sad bc that would go so hard

#yor would absolutely win physically #but there are def ways it could be balanced out #like any sort of planning aspect would tilt the scales in loid's direction bc he has more funding and spy experience #also also yor goes for knives and loid goes for guns and gun > knife so #same w loid and yuri i rlly wanna see them fight and it's very obviously being set up by the plot #idk who would win b/w them since we've never seen yuri in an all out physical fight but...probably loid? #twiyor #loid forger #loid x yor #yor briar #spy x family #what do y'all think? who would win

[pushing500]

Shockingly enough, Candlelight won this fight. My little Water caste T'au is getting better at melee, it seems. Maybe all those "practice" fights with Laurie have paid off. Candlelight left this fight with two bruises on her torso, and Andrei had two broken bones in his right leg and a broken left arm.

What if we pushed our Rimworld beds together?

Jk, jk!

...

Unless...?

I know they all sleep in their clothes in-game, but that seems so uncomfortable. I'm going to just keep drawing everyone in pyjamas.

Look, I don't like Wookshys, but I can appreciate a man who takes time out of his important chores (spending all day fishing) to remind his secret girlfriend that she is loved and very smoochable. As much as I hate to admit it, I think Albina is in good hands.

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#rimworld #gracie plays #The Animist Alliance #art #my art #traditional art #rimworld art #unpolished art #I'm very proud of Candlelight for winning that fight #But I do wish she would stop getting into fights #She gets into more fights than Irwin does #At least this time she didn't instigate it I suppose #Baz and Zonovo will get a shared bed when they're married #Both their ideologies say they can't *technically* sleep together until then #but who cares about that #Let the lads hold hands it's cute #I'll even admit that Wookshys and Albina are cute #Sneaking away to the fishing bridge to steal kisses in the early morning before everybody else wakes up #This is the most fun romance so far #Have a good day y'all!! xoxo

[theographos]

Baldur's Gate 3 deserved to win.

If you're a stranger to the video game community, let me give you the context of this post :

The Game Awards of 2023 happened this thursday. And for the nomines of Best Game of 2023 we had Alan Wake 2, Baldur's Gate 3, Marvel's Spider-man 2, Resident Evil 4, Super Mario Bros. Wonder and The Legend of Zelda : Tears of the kingdom. And the winner happened to be Baldur's Gate 3.

And ever since then we can see the salty reactions of fans of Spiderman 2, who were baffled at the results. Some argue that Baldur's Gate 3 has nothing more to offer than Spiderman 2, and there are even people who claim that they never heard of Baldur's Gate 3. A statement that I find odd, because even if I'm only briefly present amongst the video game community, even I was perfectly aware of how successful Baldur's Gate 3 has been since its release in August 2023.

Before I dive into another rant of mine, I would like to say that if you never heard of Baldur's Gate 3, it's a video game based on Dungeons and Dragons (with some minor worldbuilding differences apparently) and who work just like a D&D campaign : you role dices to know if your attack landed or not, it's a turn-based game, roleplay is encouraged. It's playable on PC and on Playstation and it offers a multiplayer gamemode.

Now let's dive into the rant shall we ?

Disclaimer

I do not consider Marvel's Spiderman 2 bad, and i'm no video game expert either. So don't expect some deep dive into both of the game's gameplay or graphism. It's just not what i'm good at. What I'm good at however is to pinpoint the content present in those games, and that's what i'm going to do.

Baldur's Gate or not, Spiderman had no chance to win.

I mean have you seen the nomines ? First of all there is a Zelda. It would be unwise to pretend like Tears of the Kingdom has not been a major hit ever since it came out. It doesn't matter if you like Zelda or not, the facts are here : Tears of the Kingdom is really good. Yes it has its bad sides, just like every game really, but it's still good ! But seeing the results of the different categories they were nominated, I would say that they had equal chances. Because for the Player's Voice Award and the Best-Game Direction they were both nominated, but none of them win. It shows that in 2 of their shared best aspects, there was still better than them, and a 50/50 is not a guaranted win.

Next we have Alan Wake 2, who also won the Best Game Direction Award, the Best Narrative Award and the Best Art Direction Award. Spiderman 2 was nominated for Best Game Direction and Best Game Narrative but didn't win. Again, if we take a look at the facts, Spiderman had no chance to win ! Again it's not because it's not a good game, it's because another game did even better. I mean Alan Wake 2 has a level of storytelling close to Inception, visuals that mix real-life footage and game footage and fans of the Remedy Connected Universe (the sort of game franchise that Alan Wake 2 is part of) have been waiting for this game ever since 2013. (the creator said at that time that because of the lack of success of the first Alan Wake, the studios weren't interested in a sequel at that time.) Meanwhile, Spiderman 2 has been teased ever since 2020. This time Spiderman 2 had a severe disadvantage compared to Alan Wake.

I will not pronounce myself about Resident Evil 4 and Super Mario Bros. Wonder, since I don't have enough knowledge about theses games. All I can say is that those two games also come from a successful franchise just like Zelda and just like Spiderman.

But why did Baldur's Gate 3 won then ?

If we look at the results of the award, it was no surprise. They won the Player's Voice award, Best RPG Award, Best Multiplayer Game Award, Best Community Support Award and Best Performance Award (Neil Newborn's performance with the character Astarion. If you never saw it, just go ahead, your ears will thank me. He can go from cocky to sassy to evil to dominant to soft without a difficulty) and were nominated in 4 other categories. Meanwhile Spiderman 2 was nominated in 8 categories and won none of them. So from a factual point of view, it means that Spiderman 2 is good, but not the best.

Now if we look at the game itself, it's absurd to even believe that Spider-man 2 would ever win. Let me list you a bunch of contents that are available in Baldur's Gate 3 :

First of all you have tons of option to customize your character. Not just from an aesthetic point of view, but also a gameplay point of view. First of all you have 11 races available for your character, with 40 sub-races, all giving you different stats and different ways to play and/or build your character. Then you have the classes, with 12 main classes and 46 sub-classes, and again they all give different stats and different ways to play your character. So with that you can play the game 5 times and will not have the same combat experience each time.

Oh you don't want to spend too much time on character creation ? It's fine because they give you 7 pre-defined characters with their own identity and their own stories, that you can even personnalize on top of it. So again, you can play this game entirely 7 times and you will have a different experience each time.

Like D&D you will have a party accompany you, a group of people with whom you travel. These characters are romanceable and also have their own quest on the side, quest that have at least two different outcomes with major changes for the character in question. So here you have at least two reasons to replay the game, like that you can experience both ends of your favorite character's quest.

Baldur's gate 3 is a game based on choices. I am a big fan of visual novels, in which your choices matters a lot, so i'm fully aware of what it means to have choices with almost every dialogue of the game. But if you're not, just you know that you cannot experience the entire game in a row. You have to do at least twice each dialogue to fully experience it.

Baldur's Gate is also a game based on a roll of dice. You can look at a painting, roll a perception check, fail and find nothing, but if you replay the game or retry, you could win it and discover that actually that painting is a map towards a treasure. So you could have missed a ton of hidden quest without even knowing it, just because you didn't talk to the right pnj or won a particular roll of dice.

Last but not least, there is three different difficulties for the game. So three reasons to replay the game if you want to enjoy it to its fullest.

And like I said, Spiderman 2 is really good, I mean it wasn't nominated as Game of the Year for nothing, but it is not able to keep up with a game like Baldur's Gate 3, which proposes hundreds of hours of new content.

Conclusion

I think I have talked enough about how much Baldur's Gate 3 deserved to win, and why it's so popular. But Spiderman 2 isn't a total failure you know ?

Even if it didn't win, it was still nominated in 8 different categories, which is really good ! Out of all the games who were out in 2023, Spiderman 2 has been nominated for the award, he's still in the top 5 of the bestest games of the year for The Game Awards !

A nomination is not something to overlook, because it still means that you won in some kind. Sure it's not as great as an award, but it's still something to brag about !

If we look at last year's numbers, there was around 10 000 games who released in 2022, and we can only guess that we got to 11 000 games in 2023. Again, in 11 000 games, Marvel's Spider-man 2 was chosen in the top 5 of the best games for this year, 5 out of 11 000 is roughly 0.45%, so really it's a great victory !

Spider-man 2 still won something, it's still considered as a good game if we follow the Award's opinion. Not the bestest, but still good enough to be part of the 0.45% of games chosen for the award of the Best Game of 2023.

#i really don't understand why y'all are mad #like being nominated isn't bad? #it's still a win wtf #and wdym you never heard of it ? #it's really talked about in the game community #maybe not as much anymore #but in august it was #and it's not like it was only for the girlies and the gays #i'm confused why the “pro gamers of years” would have never heard of it #and for those who aren't really in the gaming community and who didn't heard of it #well that's understandable #yk it's just not your thing #i even saw people saying that spiderman 2 had more content #more content than a dnd based game ? #that's optimistic #baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate iii #neil newbon #video games #game awards #the game awards #the game awards 2023 #game awards 2023 #marvel's spider man 2 #spiderman 2 ps5 #spiderman 2 game #spiderman ii ps5 #marvel's spiderman ii #pc games #ps5 games

[beachedsandcastles]

storytime when i was at ultimate frisbee practice (i'm on the guys team) and one the guys and i was talking about spiderman across the spiderverse my absolute favorite hyperfixation, and we were talking about how i think hobie's better than miguel, and vice vera for him for character design and he literally pops out 'so you're a boytoy twink for hobart and i'm a malewife hunk for miguel' like huh???? how do you even know those terms??? you're like straighter than a metal pole???? you're constantly talking about your girlfriend (who also has the same name as me which is FREAKY)???????? (he's not bi or pan or demi or ect, it's been confirmed) like literally none of the other guys on my team knows those terms. i am now scared of the tenth grader dariush for his vocabulary. i am also most definitely not a twink lol

extra: he said that miguel makes his insides feel squirmy and gets his blood running south. straight guys scare me

#across the spiderverse #spider man: across the spider verse #atsv miguel #miguel o'hara #hobie brown #spiderman 2099 #spiderpunk #ultimate frisbee #boytoy twink vs malewife hunk who would win #maybe i should make a poll of that #storytime #queer #gay #bisexual #straight people scare me #i want to go back to my queer bubble at my old school T.T #i miss y'all #y'all know who you are <3333

[crossbackpoke-check]

Why I Am Not Coming In To Work Today [abridged], Jess Zimmerman

part one | part two

#toronto maple leafs #HELLO EVERYBODY THIS HAS BEEN MONTHS!!! MONTHS IN THE MAKING BECAUSE i AM UNHINGED AND NEEDED THE PRECISE PICTURES THAT I KNEW I WOULD GET #like. seventy five percent of this has been done since the first time i posted this and while it has gotten better with time because #my narratives simply got more complex and there's so much of this that is For Me but don't worry i will explain but aLSO goddamn mitch coul #you have gotten married any later in the year. also willy you truly disappointed me by not getting an absurd haircut this year (now that #i've said this he's going to debut it on instagram like. tomorrow. but anyway that meant y'all got to enjoy my neuroses of #Loving Tyler Bertuzzi who is a goddamn leaf. the joys of having to wait to post this (was not a leaf at the time i started it) and anyway i #have at length i think had the breakdown about tyler in pigtails girl dad & how i got a bob & then tyler copied me which was rude. that's m #gender. ANYWAY starting from the top we got sheldon keefe documentation which was really just the personal decision that i wanted all the #coaching staff to be the markers in the poem/the bold & also at the TIME keefe hadn't re-signed &we thought it might be everybody out w/kyl #anyway the title of the scrap of an old lover's flannel is literally 'u think this is about sheldon & kyle NO it's about timothy liljegren' #bc. liljegren was on the marlies winning cup team & has had a contentious relationship w/keefe ever since & was healthy scratched in playof #& the narrative is sooooo. also at one point for the ryan o'reilly i was going to edit the stlb out of his grandma's shirt or cover it w/th #childhood dreams line but THEN i found the gio snapped stick one which was too perfect for 'crumbling copy' the ryan o'reilly To Me is so. #ur insane in ways u did not think for that one. like. how soft her hands were. his grandma you guys. he grew up a leafs fan. if he ever get #to lift the cup with her again i will lose my shit. the cup run a movie i remember nothing--OKAY the spezz one i knew i needed him stresse #but also i believe in the spezz/kyle narrative so. it comes up later don't worry ALSO SPEZZ FOLLOWING HIM TO PITT CAME AFTER I MADE THIS bu #the muzz tea one makes me a little sensy bc muzz was out with an injury for most of this season & it was a really scary spinal one & so yea #& then the simmer one just straight up makes me cry bc i love him so much & the work that he does for anti-racism in hockey means so much & #if you have that video open & watch it i promise you will cry i do every time it's so beautiful he had to be on comforted by beauty & sammy #boy is on the a man who doesn't know me because EYE remember the caps goalie tandems. baby lilya. the mo one is a little funny bc it is #solely due to wade's thread about mo rielly the coal miner homestead husband. that's why he moves to omaha also i think it suits him (quiet #OK NOW OLD MEN IN LOVE NARRATIVE this one's in contention for my fave bc it's spezz coping w/retirement fundamental meaningless of existenc #u heard abt tyler already that's for me the minchy picture was just too good i had found it earlier & i spent SO LONG looking for an empty #leafs rink picture for bathtub i have some cool construction photos but i wanted the melting ice ones (thought about tahoe lol) & the sprin #one i manip'd a lot bc i needed a spring picture bc playoffs clinch in spring & that one fit so coincidentally perfect bc it's 7 straight #seasons 7 guys so. :) & i KNEW i swore to god they did more milk advertising i knew i was gonna do this one from the minute i saw the poem #the milk patch & it took a hot minute BUT I FOUND THIS ONE this one's for funsies. AND THE PIC I WAITED SO FUCKING LONG FOR this is actuall #from kerf's wedding but i was like i know on god mitch is getting married this summer & that's about to be the drunkest shenanigans wedding #i'm waiting for the pics. & then i was BLESSED with this one which is beautiful & perfect & LOOK AT THEM. anyway the last one is bc

[revshanks]

And feel free to give your argument on why in the tags!

#weezer #rivers cuomo #brian bell #Rev's Rad Ramble #Rev Talks Weezy #I've been intently watching that photoshoot where they sent Rivers into a boxing ring #and I've been thinking that the only way he could win is if his opponent was either in the same weight class or Brian #so I want y'all's opinion on this. If they get into a fistfight who'd win? #Rules are; No weapons and no help. fight to the death. 1v1. That's it. #Personally I think Rivers would win but who knows!

[bookshelfdreams]

countries that deserve to do worse than us this year: POLAND switzerland cyprus sweden israel

#y'all know who I think should win anyway #I would have said France too #but feels pointless #the juries love it when they're all oui oui baguette #esc

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: March 15

“Over Yet" by Hayley Williams

#song of the day #very exciting to have one of my brothers tell me entirely unprompted that he's enjoying the current playlist #a very big win #I spent most of my work day today doing what I've been thinking of as 'evil rubber-ducking' #where the IT guys throw me the especially Difficult faculty members--the ones who can't be helped because they won't listen-- #and I trick them into actually talking me through what they're doing so we can find the problem and fix it #(eternally amazed by people who request help and then refuse it. you called me bud. you submitted a service request ticket on purpose. #oh you can't do your job without connecting to the vpn? that's great we can't fix it until you tell us what's fucking stopping you) #mostly this 'tricking' takes the form of me being a sweet young butter-wouldn't-melt Southern girl in over my head with mean IT guys #bless them (derogatory) these folks who won't let IT even attempt to start working through the 'have you tried' scripts #because they know they're getting something wrong but are too angry-embarrassed to admit they don't know what #are still delighted to mansplain the idea of a remote connection to me #--that's not fair. I shouldn't mischaracterize them it's mostly not mansplaining. #the two today were yankee-splaining me. city-splaining maybe. #what would a hick like me (y'all is one person. all y'all or some'a y'all for multiple people) possibly know about enterprise networks-- #anyway they were using the wrong login credentials and were so sure of themselves they'd never even tried the other set just to see #bless. their. hearts. #(IT owes me so many little favors like this now. the latest database tweak I asked for got done live while I described it to them) #anyway anyway! love the chorus on this song #'to get out of your head yes break a sweat / baby tell yourself it ain't over yet' #makes me move my head every time

[rorygilmre]

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#y'all know this isn't taylor's win right? like this game and this season and the super bowl is nOT about her? #there are actual players on the field who have practiced and prepared and suffered for years to get to these moments #and even taylor would tell y'all to your FACES that she didn't do shit and this is not her win #so stop saying swifties won the game or taylor is the reason the chiefs won #the chiefs were at super bowls BEFORE taylor. they won two without her there. #taylor is there to support her boyfriend. don't erase his or anyone else's actual WORK at these games. you know she wouldn't want you to. #one of the things we love about taylor is how humble she is and how she always supports other people who put in the work #so respect her by giving credit where credit is due. the same way she would. #leah talks football

[gayofthefae]

Coming around to the idea that the entire “I love you” speech WAS true - just not the full story. It came across as somewhat disingenuous because there were subtextual complications like the consequences(negative and positive) on his relationships with both El and Will partially because of how it could be misconstrued in the wrong context. But everything he said WAS absolutely true.

He didn’t inherently “plagiarize” from his earlier speech to Will in his room. If anything, it just provides further proof that he acts this way WHEN he’s scared of losing someone because he did it with both of them. He CAN have done it with BOTH of them. It doesn’t have to be just one and the other one is transference. His position in the love triangle doesn’t inherently contradict his trouble with vulnerability as it relates to his inability to say “I love you” to El.

I think a lot of people - myself in past analyses included - try to make it too black and white. Not only like he can only love (in a general sense) one of them but also like the reasons for his behaviour towards both El and Will has ONE explanation: either he thought he was losing Will OR he’s jealous of the girl in the letter, either he was scared of being vulnerable and telling El he loved her OR his feelings are torn (newsflash: a person can be torn AND love you). It can be multiple things. It can be all of them for each of them. Feelings are COMPLICATED. I common assumption made too is that he’s SELF-AWARE of all of these feelings. 

Maybe he has feelings for Will but isn’t aware/acknowledging them enough to even consider them in his hesitancy to tell El he loves her - maybe his feelings for Will have been entirely compartmentalized and separated. Maybe he felt jealous of the girl in the letter BOTH because he likes Will AND because Will didn’t tell him about this girl he likes and he’s forming new relationships without him and it makes Mike feel left out and like Will is moving on from him. They can all be true!

#willelmike analysis #mike wheeler #mike wheeler analysis #i think the most fun to analyze part of all of this that i will never ever shut up about ever is how this love triangle isn't a competition #of who is the better and therefore more deserving character to 'win' the love triangle but rather which outcome and nature of each #relationship would benefit them each best and how that exists as just one plot point in their greater individual stories as well rounded #people with many relationships and complex emotions and situations each that are in no way dependent entirely on the outcome of said love #triangle #stranger things #byler #<<<bc many of y'all need to hear this #dear bylers: mike loves el and it doesn't contradict byler

[wylldebee]

Humor me. Who would win in an old lady fight? Terra Snapdragon from The Owl House

or

Yzma from Emperor's New Groove?

#The Owl House #emperor's new groove #toh #terra snapdragon #Yzma #toh terra snapdragon #Emperor's New Groove Yzma #no seriously humor me I want to know who y'all support #Seriously give me reasons why you think either of them would win I'm interested 👀

[sureuncertainty]

no but genuinely i am so fucking glad that i don’t care what people think about my tastes in things. i’m so glad that I don’t have to cringe when i add songs i like to my playlists. i’m so glad that i can just enjoy things that i enjoy, it sounds so exhausting for y’all lol

#win rambles #like genuinely don't know how y'all do it #when i was a kid i used to be terrified that someone would find out that i watched cartoons #and then around high school i distinctly remember deciding that i didn't care anymore #and started not hiding that i watched phineas and ferb and shit and then i found out that a lot of my friends ALSO liked phineas and ferb #and that i was just being dumb #and then i found tumblr and the internet and realized there are niche fandoms for everything #and then i met my partner who showed me that pop music slaps actually and loving things is so much easier than pretending you hate them #and now i'm just so much happier than i think i would be otherwise #life is shit so i want to get every bit of joy that i can find in it #i think i owe it to myself to

[boyfhee]

i can't believe y'all r sending hate to my friend bc of what I said ab wonyo :/

#peak stupidity i must say #this really reflecte upon your maturity yeah it really does #it's so funny bc if someone was ab to post an article ab the same y'all would switch sides so quickly #but god this isn't even ab her anymore this is ab you ppl being so shameful and unapologetic #and the way u guys will target anyone not on some reasonable basis but on their own opinion #as if me or my friend owe you an explanation or apology or having views that aren't the same as yours #moreover we said things that are valid publicly while you people are sending hate and that too on anon so who's winning here #bc u think ppl will come for you if they saw u sending hate so you hide behind that anon button #you ppl are not only literal pieces of shits but cowards as well

[criminal-activityinthefrogswamp]

Sonic Frontiers: We have a whole month's worth of several minute long gameplay trailers and interviews with devs. Look at all the environmental design! The new combat mechanics! This badass new boss enemy and other cool robot designs!

*polarizing responses from fans and calls for them to delay the game*

Sonic Prime: Here's Shadow :)

*crowd goes wild*

#who would win: new boss fight footage of a new mainline sonic game or 2 seconds of shadow silently standing menacingly #I'm really excited for frontiers y'all I think that boss enemy they showed today was cool as hell #sonic central #sonic prime #sonic frontiers

[blushnik]

There are no pixels in the way on my Patreon 👀💙

These full renders and more if you’re curious and wanna support your broke artist <33333

#im gonna shamelessly promote #cause who would have thought this move to bare ass apartment would cost this much #sksksk #support your local mentiddies enthusiast #get nice art #everyone wins! #love y'all <3