#I'm not playing in sandbox mode

[andromeda-64]

Fuckers took my radio tower.

Can't have shit in Switzerland.

[guiltreservoir]

okay maybe it's a hot take but i personally feel there are ways to express a similar sentiment without assigning misery to the people you disagree with ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i was nodding my head along with the first bit; people do love to get wild and silly with their reactions/interpretations of press, and i feel like this is an accurate take, lmao. i think a lot of people have been very reactive and defensive around a lot of the interviews we've been getting lately. i also know a lot of folks have wounds from being queerbaited and misled by sooo much other beloved media that it causes some of them to come in with hackles raised and fangs bared.

however, i think part of why this fandom feels so much like a shark tank (especially lately) is because of this type of "stay miserable" attitude when someone has a certain reaction to something or a line of thought that you don't agree with. idk. maybe i'm just being sensitive but i feel like if we could all just like. chill out a little bit (on all sides!!), see and acknowledge the humanity in each other, and extend a little more grace to each other? see what happens then? and if some people are enjoyng steeping in their self-imposed misery, we can just leave them to it and lean into our own enjoyment? lmao

oliver could come out and say - word for word “buck and eddie are going to swap spit in 7.10” and some of you guys would be like “we can’t know exactly what that means, you guys are stupid for getting your hopes up, they could be sharing a straw.”

like i don’t know what you want from him. but i know what you want for you and it’s to be miserable.

[thegreatcrowdragon]

Preordered Downpour for the switch, can’t wait to play as fat Minecraft guy and angry gunpowder momma 

[ashwhowrites]

I’m so happy you’re back!!!

Inspired by that thigh clenching breeding kink post with Steve… girl. So so good. 🤤 I beg for one with Eddie if you would be so kind?

Same basic premise. Reader and Eddie are dating. She sees Eddie interacting with a toddler and some kids in the trailer park, playing with them etc etc. Tells him he’s going to be a great dad. Eddie laughs it off and without thinking says something self deprecating about no one wanting to have a kid with trailertrash. Reader doesn’t like that at all and is like excuse me? You are not trash and I would be proud to let everyone know I’m pregnant with Eddie Munson’s baby. And man oh man eddie goes feral.

Thank you for the Steve one in the first place. Holy hell. 🔥 And thank you in advance if you do decide to write this as well. ❤️❤️

You're welcome!! I'm glad you enjoyed it ;) I hope you enjoy this one as well. Thank you for requesting ❤️

Dad mode

As Y/N watched Eddie play trucks with a little boy in the sandbox she realized she's never seen Eddie interact with a younger kid. She was so used to high schoolers hanging around but not a kid under five.

And it was a damn shame because it was the sweetest thing she's ever seen. Eddie's smile was kiddish as he crashed the small truck into the side of the sandbox. The little boy giggled, following Eddie's actions as he crashed the car.

"Issac! It's time to go, baby," the mom said as she came over. She smiled down at Eddie, "thank you for playing with him."

Eddie smiled and gave her a gentlemen's nod as he stood up. He dusted off his jeans and walked over to where Y/N stood with a dazed smile.

"What?" Eddie asked, hooking his arm around her waist as he walked them to the van.

"You are going to be the best dad ever," Y/N said as she softly pushed Eddie against the car door. She fixed his jacket collar as she smiled. "That little boy loved you."

Eddie scoffed to cover the butterflies flying in his stomach. "Yeah, trailer trash makes great dads. Have you met mine?" Eddie joked, she never met him and neither had Eddie.

Y/N's eyes saddened and her arms scooped around Eddie's neck, softly rubbing his head. "You're not trailer trash. You take care of everyone. The way you are with Dustin? My gosh, it makes me wish I was pregnant with a little version of you. Kids love you because you are great."

Eddie appreciated the heartwarming speech but he was stuck on how tight his jeans got when she said pregnant with his kid. How easily it flies off the tongue and how badly he wanted it to be true. His moves were quick, turning them around as he pressed her against the door. His body smashed against hers, the slight tent in his jeans rubbing against her.

His hand gripped her jaw, smirking as he looked down at her. She could already see the gears turning in his head.

"Are you saying I could be fucking you raw by now?" She was embarrassed by how easily she fell apart in one sentence. Her legs clenched and a whimper left her throat. Eddie mockingly chuckled, his eyes a new shade of black. "You wanna fuck around and get pregnant from a man like me? What does that say about you?" He whispered

"Says I want you to fuck me. Are you man enough to do it, Daddy?" She said with a smile. She loved the way his chest purred. He unlocked the van and yanked her arm, he opened the back of it throwing her in. He slammed the doors shut, locking the bar.

"Wait! Eddie this is a public park!"

Eddie was already taking off his shirt, tossing it to the side as he grabbed her ankles. She fought to do the right thing as he stripped off her pants. "Eddie!" She hissed.

"You imagine me breeding you when I hangout with Dustin and suddenly public sex is too far?" He teased, a sexy smirk on his face as he yanked her soaked panties off. "Because if you say stop," he said, shuffling to his stomach as he placed his head between her thighs, "I'll stop."

Her mouth dropped open as his tongue licked up her folds. If they got caught, they'd be facing cops. But the way his tongue danced around her cunt made her not care.

"But we both know you won't say it," he said against her lips.

She sighed, locking her ankles around his neck as her hands bunched in his hair. She moaned as he softly bit her clit, then moved to suck it.

She rocked her hips at his pace, feeling incredible as he ate her out. She had no regrets about what she asked for, he was devouring her like a starved man. Eddie softly rubbed himself against the carpet of the van, moaning at the relief as he continued to eat her cunt, loudly as her wetness began to spread.

She could see the night sky creeping in through the windows, the streetlight turned on above them, illuminating their bodies. Y/N blindly searched for the pillow they left back here, because this wasn't the first time he was tongue-deep inside of her in this van.

She shoved it under her head, enjoying the extra support as her back arched. Eddie could stay between her legs for days, she was addictive.

Even though the feeling of his tongue was incredible, it wasn't what she needed.

"Eddie, pleaseeeee," she begged, unhooking her ankles. She softly pushed his head.

He groaned but listened, moving up her body to slam his lips against hers. She moaned as she tasted herself, her hands feeling his naked chest. Her fingertips teased the top of his jeans, begging them to come off.

"What you want baby?" He asked, sitting back on his knees. "This?" She followed his movements as his hand unbuttoned his jeans. She drooled at the teasing sight, his boxers in view.

"Quit teasing," she moaned, rubbing her thighs together.

He laughed, "Why? It seems like you love it," he said as he shoved two fingers inside of her. "Oh yeah, you're soaked." She cried out when he curved his fingers forward before he slid out.

"Please, daddy?"

Eddie felt all the hair on his back stand up straight. It was like that name snapped him into action. She whimpered in heat as he stripped himself bare.

She loved the sight of his pasty white skin, his dark body hair, and his thin hips. "That's it, daddy. Come fuck a baby in me," her legs spread open as she waited for him.

He placed a hand on her hip, using the other to guide himself inside of her. "Oh fuck," he moaned. He was instantly in love with the feeling of entering her with no barrier. He could feel just how soft and wet she was, the feeling of her walls wrapped around him.

She loved the feeling too. She felt every vein in his cock, gasping as he pushed himself all the way in. She knew it would feel good, but she couldn't believe just how good it was.

"I'm never using a condom again," he moaned. His hair stuck to his sweaty skin as he fucked her. Both hands squeezed her hips, leaning down to press his lips against hers.

She practically purred in his mouth, happily wrapping her legs around him to push him deeper. She clawed at his skin like he wasn't close enough. Doing anything she could to keep his body right against hers. Her brain was fuzzy as his tongue swirled in her mouth and his balls slapped her cunt. Every thrust was deep, removing himself to slide right back in. He couldn't get over the feeling of her squeezing him as he entered.

His left hand moved up to fist her hair as he kissed her harder, his right hand sliding down their bodies. She gasped into the kiss as his pointer finger teasingly circled her clit. The feeling jolted her body up to hit his. She felt like she could barely keep up from the kiss, his cock inside her and the feeling on her clit.

She gasped for air when he pulled back, just to attack her neck. It was clear the van started rocking from his fast movements, but she didn't care. All she cared about was the feeling of his warm cock sliding against her.

"Oh my God," she choked, her hands moving into his hair as she felt the need to hold on to something. She loved how sweaty they were, how rough and desperate it was. Knowing they couldn't make it another step without tearing each other's clothes off.

"You feel so good, baby," he moaned. He gripped her hips as he moved backward until he was sitting. Her now on top of him as she begins to ride him. Both shivered at the new position.

She tried to keep up with his pace, bouncing on his cock until her body went numb. He bucked his hips, slamming her down on him over and over. Their skin slapped each other as she rode him, crying his name as she tried to hold herself up.

She wrapped her arms around his neck, naked chest to chest. She was panting in his ear, the sound edging him on.

"Getting tired? Can't handle Daddy, can you?"

She rolled her eyes at his comment. She bit down on his neck, her revenge but it seemed to turn him on even more. She refused to let him win, she gathered all the strength she had left as she shoved him down.

He looked at her, curious but damn excited, as his back hit the van's carpet. She adjusted herself to balance as she sunk down on him. He hissed as she wrapped around him again. Every touch was pushing him closer.

She moaned loudly as she chased her own orgasm, knowing the sight alone would make him explode. She kept her eyes on him as she moved a hand down to her clit. She moved her hips faster as she sped up the touch on her clit, already seconds away.

"Don't ever test me," she smirked breathlessly as she went faster. Eddie reached forward and gripped her thighs as he felt his release.

"Fuck that's it, fuck keep going," he moaned, "milk me, baby. Drain me for everything I have. You've earned it," his dirty words encouraged her as she rubbed herself faster.

"I'm going to cum," she whined. Eddie sat up, holding her against him as his hands gripped her ass.

"That's it, gorgeous. Be a good girl for Daddy and cum all over me," he encouraged. She panted into his neck as she felt herself snap, her thighs shaking as she came all over him. "I love you so much. You feel so fucking good."

"Oh Daddy it feels so good," she moaned, trying her best to continue to ride him as her orgasm washed through her.

"Yeah? Your tight pussy wrapped around me is driving me insane. You want to be filled up huh? Want me to breed your little pussy?"

Her eyes rolled in the back of her head as he moved her on her back, starting to fuck her again. Her cunt didn't have time to recover, aching as his cock drilled her.

"I've got so much cum to fill you up, sweetheart," he said as he threw her legs over his shoulders. "Greedy cunt is squeezing me so tight, trying to unload my balls huh? Taking what you want."

She smirked at his words, knowing she wanted nothing more than for him to cum inside of her.

She gasped as his hand wrapped around her neck. "Tell me you want it. Tell me how much you want my cum."

"Please, Daddy. I want all of it. I want you to fill me up. Put a baby in me and make me yours," she moaned through the grip on her neck. "I want it so bad."

Eddie felt his orgasm building, fucking her harder as he looked down at her. "I'm gonna give it all to you, sweetheart. All my cum, painting your walls and fucking you deep," he said through his panted breaths. He gave everything he had his last few thrusts, moaning as he felt the first spurts of his cum.

"Oh fuck!" She groaned in bliss as she felt his hot cum filling her. A feeling she knew she'd never forget. "More, please more," she begged. Eddie bit harshly on his lip as he fucked all his cum inside of her, brain melting as he soaked in her cunt milking him. He dropped her legs, allowing them to hit the floor.

"Fuck your pussy is milking me dry" he choked out, giving his final thrusts before his body collapsed next to hers.

She was fucked out, her hair sticking to her as she tried to catch her breath. Eddie panted next to her, the biggest smile on his face as he looked at her.

"What?" She asked as she closed her eyes. The windows were so fogged that Eddie couldn't see out of them.

"Can you go again?"

Her eyes snapped open as she looked at him. "Can you?" She laughed, "that was some fucking orgasm."

Eddie rolled back on top of her, kissing all over her face. "It doesn't take me long to reload, baby," he winked.

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[royalarchivist]

Tubbo just did a Q&A for his newly announced Realm SMP!

Here are some key takeaways and highlights from it:

Tubbo emphasized that the "team" behind Realm is just himself and Tangofrags. It's a chill server so friends have a sandbox to tell stories, do lore, and have fun.

Tubbo: "I just wanna have fun with my friends, dude. I'm not trying to be the big 'bringing communities together guy'. I just wanna play with my friends. That's a lot of pressure." (57m 12s into stream)

These are the initial 25 players, but he plans to add more people in the future, and he already has 5 people in mind to add for the next event.

There is NO mod pack! Realm SMP is vanilla, it's just custom texture packs and plugins.

There are no set DND classes, but people can use their skill points to unlock certain things on skill trees and build their own classes. Realm SMP won't be 100% accurate to DND.

Tubbo hopes to have an event every week, but he reminds people to "manage their expectations" because he's only one guy – he can't do events like Purgatory because he doesn't have a massive team like Quackity had for that.

[ Continued ↓ ]

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He has a 6 month timeframe in mind, but if the server fizzles out in a month, then it fizzles out in a month. Realm SMP will last as long as people play it!

There's no plans for an in-game translator because it's expensive and also Tubbo "doesn't want to step on Quackity's toes" :(

Lore is dependent on what the people on the server do, he likes more freestyle flowing RP.

There IS a life system! Players have 3 lives, but it's only "semi-hardcore" because other players can craft an item to bring people back at 1 life. When a player dies, their stats are set to 0 and they go into spectator-mode. When they're revived, they are brought back at 1 life with all their stats back.

The Nether IS enabled, but the End isn't enabled yet because Tubbo wants to make a cool custom boss fight.

There's no big team behind the server, it's just Tubbo and Tango helping him with some things he might not understand (however, he has a team he wants to use for the New Year Event he has in mind). He may look into getting some admins to help enforce rules.

Tubbo says he's happy to do anything himself, but if people really want to be an admin, it'd be voluntary like a Twitch mod kind of deal. (He already has a team of people he goes to for admin stuff, it wouldn't be random people being admins). However, he says if his merch does well, maybe he can get 1 or 2 people to help.

Tubbo says he's been overwhelmed by the amount of support it's received so far, but he's a bit nervous too.

He says the Realm SMP concept came to him in a dream.

Realm SMP will have proximity chat.

Events won’t be all PVP-based because he wants people to enjoy the events even if they aren’t a huge Minecraft player.

The only two banned items are mending books and elytra, which will be tied to future events (elytra can be won in one event).

An hour before the server launches on December 5, he'll be showing off more features.

Please note that many details will likely change / be clarified / updated by Tubbo at a later date!

Check out this post for the rest of his Q&A and more details.

[ultrakill-confessions]

can i just say that I am SO grateful for the accessibility options and assists in ultrakill? like, yeah i make my jokes about being dogshit at this game. but, like, honestly, i haven't played an FPS in almost 20 years. I've felt way too out of my depth to try, because I already have mobility issues with my hands, the learning curve seems so steep, and I really don't like the prospect of humiliating myself.

Watching playthroughs had me worried I would be too overwhelmed to enjoy the game, but being able to use things like aim assist? Being able to play on harmless and have slower enemies? I'm actually able to ENJOY this game, not just throw myself at the same level over and over until I feel embarrassed and stop playing entirely.

And the way that they're phrased--things like "minor assists" and "major assists" rather than "cheats"? talking about the easier difficulties with things like "for a less stressful experience" as opposed to making it seem like having an easy mode is for people who just ~aren't willing to put in the effort to get good~? It makes me feel so much less judged for not being familiar enough with this genre to jump right in on the hardest difficulty. It feels remarkably kind.

It's also been incredibly helpful! I've only been playing for a week-ish, but playing on harmless has helped me figure out the mechanics without just, like, dying every two seconds. I spent over an hour in the sandbox today just really focusing on how to move my hands in the right way to actually get around while being able to see where I'm going.

Today I was finally able to play through the whole prelude on lenient instead of harmless, and with 20% aim assist instead of 40%! And I only fell into three blade fans instead of, like, twelve! I got through Cerberus without resetting once! I've never even gotten to Cerberus before! The amount of improvement I have been able to make has literally been night and day. Am I good at this game? Without a doubt, I am not! And I'm fine with that. I take pride in being God's worst mistake. But I actually feel excited to play, and it just makes me appreciate this game and hakita as a dev so, so much.

- girlfailure v1 anon

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[cavegirlpoems]

Heya! I could swear you once posted about how there are a lot of parallels between PbtA and OSR games in terms of desired playstyle, but I'm no longer sure if you posted it here on Tumblr or elsewhere? Do you remember ever making a post like that or did I dream it?

OK SO here we go, this is a list of parallels in no particular order: -both are extremely fiction-first, with the conversational back-and-forth the default mode of play only occasionally punctuated by mechanics. -both tend towards the rules-light end of the spectrum. -both are deeply concerned with rewards and feedback mechanisms as drivers of play. -both reject the idea of a general mechanic that you apply however you want, at the gm/table's discretion, with wiggle room on what it means. Instead both tend to have a single distinct mechanic that you apply in a very specific situation that's fine-tuned for that situation. -both are concerned with emulation, either of genre or of setting. -both have simple pre-packaged character options - classes or playbooks - and tend to be fairly low on character optimisation and customisation. -both focus very heavilly on 'play to find out', aka 'emergent narratives' aka 'player-driven sandbox games', and strongly reject linear pre-planned plots. -both tend to encourage stepping away from actor-only immersion as the only stance, encouraging you too see your character not as an avatar of yourslf but as a pawn with which you interact with the world. In practic I've found that playing/running pbta makes you better at osr and visa versa. They occupy a similar space of being fiction-first generators of emergent narratives that punctuate the conversation with occasional codified mechanics. It's a third point both share that's quite distinct from trad games and very narrativist games.

[venriliz]

✭ Non Sims Interests tag ✭

i got tagged by the lovely @elderwisp and @sashima tysm <3

rambling starts in 3... 2... 1 *takes a deep breath*

✭ Astronomy: I just love anything related related to space i'm literally spongebob in that episode where he's underneath sandy's glas thingy without this stupid helmet and needs water so bad screaming 'I NEED IT!' THAT'S how badly i need to know everything about space! °-° i sometimes spend several hours reading scientific papers online about it, i got a telescope i use all the time and i bought one for my nephew for his 10th birthday to go stargaze with him together and finally have someone to info dump on and be vaguely interested too lmfao. like did u know that pulsars are neutron stars that spin insanely fast (like hundreds of times EVERY second) and would immediately kill us if we'd replace our sun with one bc of the insane radiation it emits? it would happen really fast too, we probably wouldn't notice a thing. THAT'S COOL OKAY?! °-° i also think a colony on mars is a shitty idea :x fuck u elon musk you go first and die from radiation, hunger, dehydration or messing up the landing sequence idgaf

✭ Music: OK lemme talk abt my shitty taste in music. i myself have absolutely NO musical talent, believe me nobody wants to hear me sing or try to play an instrument. i tried learning the piano but i have no talent at all. i dunno how some people get through their days without listening to music whenever possible like wtf is wrong with u?? my favorite singer is prolly jeff buckley like this man had the voice of an angel and died too fucking soon T.T i'm just gonna list more artist i love in no particular order: tears for fears, nin, tash sultana, woodkid, queen, fleetwood mac, clann, mitski, grimes, joji, stromae, radiohead, bloc party, paramore, tina turner, mcr, clairo, maneskin, lorn, kara jackson, atoms for peace, throwing muses, doechii, depeche mode, prince, patrick watson, tame impala, chopin, forest swords, annenmaykantereit, the jezabels, gorillaz, phony ppl, rainbirds, fettes brot, alligatoah, volbeat, joy division, kingo hamada, ella fitzgerald, celeste, kate bush, hall&oats, a flock of seagulls, talking heads, tracy chapman, heartless bastards, akiaura, ethel cain, luke black and 1000s more °-°

i also listen to a lot of osts from video games but i always come back to the og sims soundtrack, the journey soundtrack, the music of both ori games, assassin's creed (especially ac II but i aslo like the odyssey music even though i didn't like the game that much) and the witcher 3 music.

✭ Gaming: OK lemme know if u ever heard about this game: Magical Drop III for the ps1 (it's a puzzle game but i obsessed over it as a kid like it was the holy grail)... °-° this was the first video game i ever played and my sisters let me play with them until i got too good and DESTROYED them. if any of u know the game lemme know which character you played as i always chose the tower (nobody ever knows this game when i'm trying to share my brainrot about it so... T.T)

anyway i'm a passionate gamer and games i love include:

pokemon: the older gens, pkm violet was hot garbage. i also LOVE pokemon mystery dungeon team sky. gen 5 is my favorite!

rimworld: this game cured my fear of citybuilding and sandbox games and i will love it forever.

the elder scrolls: my favorite is def morrowind but i can understand that many ppl can't get into it nowadays because you have to read A LOT. after bethesda released the slob called starfield i don't have high hopes for tes6 though v.v

assassin's creed: ac II and brotherhood was where the series peaked. stopped caring abt the newer games after odyssey

rdr2: i used the savegame editor to replace john with arthur after the epilog because i couldn't let go of this kicked puppy of a man T.T one of the best written characters in any viddy game imo. no game managed to break my heart until that one. damn u rockstar, damn u *shaking my fist with tears in my eyes*

journey: it's simplicity is what makes it beautiful and the soundtrack is chef's kiss

no man's sky: it had a rocky start but the dev's pulled this thing out of the dirt in the best way possible. since i love anything regarding space this is the perfect game for me!

point and click games from daedalic: daedalic made insanely good point and click games in the early 2010's T.T and then gollum happened. most games were first released in german but they all got an english versions i think so i highly recommend them! my favs are the deponia and harvey games.

✭ History: yes, i think about the roman empire a lot but also about the mongol invasion, the black death, ancient greece etc. my interest in learning about stuff that happened in the past probably comes from my grandpa telling me about how he experienced ww2. me and my family are from germany and he was forced to go to the front when he was 17 in 1945 and he also lost his siblings during the war. he always told me that learning from the past is the only way to make sure the future will be better. not sure if learning from the past has worked all that much bc humanity is just as dumb and cruel as it has been back then v.v

✭ Bugs/Insects/Spiders/Crawlers in general: all of my favorite animals fall under that category and while i hate how ppl catch them and pin them onto a board to display them (like wtf) i can't get enough of looking at them (besides dragonflies, like i dunno why but i don't like them as much v.v as a kid i was fucking scared of them. handling big spiders? no problem but being near dragonfly was where i drew the line for some reason lol.

like... i don't know or care to learn their scientific/latin names but still. i just love how much variety there is and how insane and cool some look. most are also so so important for the eco system. °-° i respect people not liking bugs and spiders etc. and being squeamish but... LOOK AT THE PERFECTION NATURE HAS CREATED! WITNESS IT!

yes i'm unhinged but i'm gonna shut up now and tag some ppl

@skaterboisims @thebramblewood @azeterna @moonwoodhollow @charmed-4n @microscotch @kashisun @roocomehome @papermint-airplane @grilledcheese-aspiration @aniraklova @blackgirlprotagonist @gloomiegalaxie @wotunciba did this already <3

[documenting-lilyport]

how long have you had your forever world for? also what would you recommend to keep motivating yourself to keep playing on it? i want to have a forever world and i'm hoping i can keep coming back to my current one :]

hey jordan, this is such a great question because i've definitely thought long and hard about this, too, when i first started my forever world.

i've had this save file for almost three months now (+ almost 500 days in-game) and i've been having a blast playing because i've always kept in mind that i was and always will be playing for myself. which is to say, in this sandbox game, i'm playing in a way that prioritises my fun over the idea of 'this is how minecraft is intended to be played.'

of course, what is fun is different from person to person. but these are a few things that i do to keep my save file fun for me:

playing with commands i love building, but i do not love terraforming and i definitely do not find satisfaction in big terraforming projects. so, when i'm building a huge cliff, a detailed body of water, or whatever else that i may find tedious, i will hop into creative mode! i don't have all the time in the world, so i just want to feel joy and feel relaxed when i'm playing on my forever world!

keep inventory + mobGriefing another thing that had always hindered my enjoyment of the game was losing my inventory upon death and having to rush back to get everything before they all despawned. it's just not fun for me personally, so i enabled keep inventory. and though i play mostly on peaceful, i still disabled mobGriefing in case i ever feel like running around on easy!

no set aesthetics i just build what i feel like building with whatever blocks i feel like using. no strict block palettes that i must use in every build, no clear style of building that i'm going for. it gives me so much space to build whatever is currently striking my interest! i have a bunch of videos of other people's world tours, tiny build ideas, etc. that i've been able to add to my save file rather seamlessly because i don't have a set 'aesthetic' that i'm going for :)

set achievable goals this is something that i picked up from youtubers who have worlds that have lasted thousands of in-game days. i'm currently building up lilyport village, but that goal alone is so daunting and vague. so, i break it down into buildings and tiny structures i would personally like to see in the village. a library, a cartography shop, a cascading waterfall, etc. plus, building the village up structure by structure allows me the satisfaction of checking things off as i go! i also have something in game to help me remember the different things i want to add into my world. i noticed you have a goal board in your forever world — me too! i like being able to visualise my goals in its entirety :)

back up your world! i've seen people talk about losing a longterm world (sometimes computers just crash, sometimes the game gets corrupted, etc) and then completely losing motivation to start all over. i keep this in mind every time i'm done with a gaming session and i back up my game on my desktop (after each session), my cloud drive (every few sessions), and an external drive (every few months)!

there are definitely other things that i'm forgetting, but these are the ones that i run into most frequently. i would also recommend checking out luvstar's video on this specific question, they've been my biggest inspiration in starting my forever world so i thought i'd include their video as well :)

obviously, these aforementioned points are what makes it fun for me.

so, if you prefer a little challenge or if building is not all that fun for you, there are other ways to play minecraft! it's a sandbox — tweak it to your liking!

thanks again for this lovely question, i hope i haven't yapped your head off and have fun!

also also — if anyone out here has a longterm world, please chime in in the replies or the reblogs as well :)! who knows who you will inspire with your lovely addition!

[dennydraws]

I've been playing Anno 1800 way, way too much...

For the record, I've never considered myself a city builder type of gamer. My brother used to play these games a lot but I was mostly watching when I was wee little bean. I think he mostly just had fun sending armies around and destroying things lol but I do distinctly remember being bored one day and picking Civ on the PSX and finding out I was actually good at it or as good as reaching a point where loading the opponents' turns was taking so long it made the whole thing unplayable lol but I did reach some kinda moon landing phase or something... anyhowsies! That was my only city building RTS kinda experience :D;;

I picked Anno 1800 during the spring sale having never played Anno games before but I'm absolutely weak for the time period's aesthetics (also ships!) and I've been having such a blast playing and learning and ....what do you mean I've been playing for 8 hours?? This game is so immersive and I love, love, love the music and the vibes so much...

This game knows time magic, I swear... if I dare boot it after work, it's one blink and it's nearly midnight. It's really dangerous during the work week xD;;; I didn't expect to find it as charming and enjoy all the AIs and their little banters!

I finished the campaign mode (and deleted my save by accident, rip) and now I fiddle in sandbox mode but I super look forward to friends picking it during a sale so we can co-op and tackle some of the stronger AIs >u>! ...Eventually anyway, cause V Rising is getting the 1.1 update in like three days and I will sink back into my Gothic Phase™ !

I plan to wipe the dust off another old vampire OC instead of bringing Voice back since the update requires to start fresh anyway :D; Plus Miss Voice got her dream castle and a demon husband so... I consider her V Rising Journey to be complete! However V Rising requires well rested fingers and Anno has so much clicking... it's going to be hard resisting to play anything this weekend lol but I can feel the strain on my joints this week. I need to be careful!

But yes, this past month has been... more of playing games than arting. I'm trying to give myself more of a creative break? Like, treat art less like a 2nd job, play more games, go out more (since the weather is getting better!) and be less... locked on projects which is a bit of a difficult shift in my mindset xD;; I know my comic projects are suffering as a result but I will get there eventually! May is just a bit too packed with events/games/life right now.... :D;;

I also want to draw more Anno inspired scenes with Eloise ffff

I've been trying to poke the FF14's space exploration missions too, to primary max my gatherers but my FF14 inspo is still so low... T-T I feel a little guilty about it. My brain is just into other games right now...

Anyhowsies, that's been my life over the past month :D; Playing a lot of games, getting much needed serotonin from the increasing daylight... Life is hard and the world is depressing but when good vibes happen, no matter how small in comparison, it's nice to acknowledge and write about them too. :>

Thank you for stopping by and reading my life update rambles :D! I hope you will have a wonderful weekend ~

[justzawe]

Zawe Ashton Covers AMAZING Magazine | Issue 4

Actor, author, playwright and new mum Zawe Ashton adds another string to her bow: supervillain. As she joins the Marvel Cinematic Universe, she tells AMAZING about her love of poetry, getting physical on the set of The Marvels and the unwavering support of her own parents.

Zawe Ashton is no stranger to playing the antagonist. From her very first film role as rude schoolgirl Bianca in 2009’s St Trinian's 2: The Legend Of Fritton's Gold, to playing the intimidatingly cool Violet “Vod” Nordstrom in four seasons of student sitcom Fresh Meat and – more recently - as the rejected Julia Thistlewaite in 2022 period drama, Mr. Malcolm’s List, Ashton has a knack for taking on characters who appear unlikeable on paper… and making audiences fall in love with them. However, for her latest role as Dar-Benn in The Marvels, she had to go full villain.

“Very little can prepare you to have to embody an antagonist at this level, in a Universe that is literally not known to anyone – like our Space - and to make it real and impactful,” says the London-born actor, a new recruit to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. “There's something deeply humbling about having to return to the sandbox; you have to go back to the playground and that was something I was not expecting. You have to indulge in adult play and it’s surprisingly vulnerable. I know that there are gamers out there, there are cosplayers out there, there are adults who have managed to keep that level of childlike play going and I respect it so much. There's a self-consciousness that can take over if you are not careful. Trying to react realistically to a laser coming towards you is not something I’d done since I was seven years old, and I had to get to that level of childlike confidence to just delve into the imagination. Once that was all clearer, the villainous elements came so much from the physical world, with costume and hair.”

For 39-year-old Ashton, adult play will likely become a more frequent fixture in her life, thanks to her most exciting new role – as a mother. She welcomed her first child in 2022 with fiancé Tom Hiddleston, her co-star in the 2019 revival of Harold Pinter's Betrayal on London’s West End, later transferred to Broadway. “What has genuinely surprised me about motherhood is how much I don't feel ready to talk about it,” she laughs. “And this isn’t to shut down the conversation. I have gained so much insight from public people who have this incredible candour and this disarming, relatable dialogue about it very early on, but it's something that I am just dedicating time to absorbing. I’m listening rather than expelling energy. That genuinely has surprised me, because it's something you want to shout from the rooftops about; it's the most unparalleled, most important role in my life. The surprise has been how quiet I want to be about it. Maybe that's also me as a writer and this is something that will come through the pen at some point.”

Ashton attended London’s Anna Scher Theatre School from the age of six and was a member of the National Youth Theatre, before getting her degree in acting at Manchester Metropolitan University, but writing has always been significant in her life. She won the London Poetry Slam Championship in 2000, becoming the event’s youngest winner, at 17. “I may have been knocked off that pillar long ago, but in my head I'm still the youngest,” she laughs. “I love poetry. I had not written for a really long time; during the pandemic I lost a huge chunk of my creative soul when it came to putting pen to paper, which was really scary and was clearly the fallout of being in survival mode and feeling quite fearful. People's attention spans just went all sorts of different ways, didn't they? It was very hard for me to read, and it was very hard for me to write, which is very strange for me.

“More recently, a friend of mine from drama school who I used to do open mic nights with in Manchester – I used to perform poetry and she used to sing - asked me to write a poem for her wedding. I had a few moments where it was really tough, but I did it. I love her and I'm so happy for her, and being inspired enough to get a poem out and read it aloud really opened the floodgates. So, weirdly enough, I've been writing a lot of poetry recently and found a new love for it. I will always continue to use poetry as a way to understand the world. It's just so much part of who I am.”

For Zawe's full interview and shoot, order your copy of AMAZING issue 4 now. The Marvels is out now.

[randomthefox]

I really like Nero! Blame it on the fact that DMC4 was my first game maybe, but I can't imagine even if I had played DMC 1 2 and 3 on the PS2 before this that I wouldn't have liked Nero. I've never related to that "WHERE'S THE MAIN CHARACTER FROM THE OTHER GAMES?? I WANNA PLAY AS THE MAIN CHARACTER!!!" mentality. Then again I DID play Metal Gear Solid 2 as a kid =P my glorious femboy ninja Raiden inoculated me to ever being pissy about not getting to play as the character on the previous games boxart.

I honestly enjoy the way Nero plays way more than Dante. Dante may allow for maximum player expression with how much customization he has with his moveset and arsenal. But I've honestly never been the kind of person to play with a big box of LEGOs, I prefer following the instructions and making a pre-set build. I've also never been the type to go nuts in sandbox mode in Minecraft. I prefer a tailor made and deliberately crafted experience, always have. And that's what Nero has always felt like compared to Dante. Dante has four different styles, a laundry list of Devil Arms and guns, I'm crippled with decision paralysis before I even start the level and that's before we even get to the fact he can switch between a minimum of two and maximum of ALL of his different weapons midcombo!

Nero has the Red Queen, the Blue Rose, and the Devil Bringer. Got it, gun it, go. I like that. And his unique mechanics of exceed and how he can charge his gunshots means there's a massive skill ceiling. A high level player will be charging his gun constantly, and can trigger max exceed on every single sword strike to maximize his damage and style.

Johnny Yong Bosch's performance also helps. I was a Power Rangers kid, dontcha know.

[stellarstarcelios]

💚 I know I'll probably be burned at the Tumblr stake for this, but after seeing all the hate for the Minecraft movie here and in the Minecraft ask blog server I'm in, I'm no longer going to hold my tongue for where I stand on the movie and how cool and fun it looks to me. You don't have to read it, and while it is long, if you do read it, I appreciate you taking the time to.

💚 What has Minecraft always been? A sandbox game where anything and everything is possible. That's what Mojang has been trying to teach us in every update that gives us things like mobs, signs, candles; all the little things for settings, stories, characters, all of that. And that's how it should be. Because there's no set story, characters, and such little lore that's up for interpretation, Minecraft is whatever you want it to be. That's what mods are for too!

💚 Minecraft has always been a game where you use whatever you want in the game setting to tell a story, a tale, your own perception without it being restricted by canon lore, characters, etc.

💚 So, if it can be anything and everything all at once, why are people mad about this movie being a story being told using Minecraft as a setting where Minecraft can be anything and everything?

💚 I'm seeing a pattern here, because this is exactly how people felt about Minecraft: Story Mode too. Everyone I know hated the idea of a Minecraft story with actual characters and stuff and refused ti play it or acknowledge it. I've even seen the same with Minecraft Legends, Minecraft Dungeons, and pretty much anything that's not vanilla or modded Minecraft.

💚 But people forget that, at it's core, Minecraft is a storytelling tool that's also a sandbox game. Sandbox games are templates to tell tales of your own through what they give you, so why can't Mojang and the studio making the movie tell their own story that uses that too?

💚 People also complain about Jack Black being a white man playing Steve. Need I remind you how many people who are popular artists have a white Steve? And need I remind you Steve can be changed to whatever you want him to look like because of Minecraft skins being able to be changed?

💚 Why do people forget that the default skins can be anything and everything you want too?

💚 AND ANOTHER BIG THING! People are saying the Minecraft movie is just being made as a "funny lol XD random" thing only for kids, but may I remind you that Minecraft originally started as a game targeted towards children that only became really popular with adults because of YouTubers?

💚 Minecraft wasn't just made for adults or just made for kids! It was made for everyone and anyone to play and enjoy!

💚 One last thing that bugs me about people hating the Minecraft movie is that a lot of people who have Minecraft OCs seem to forget that Minecraft isn't just your lore or what you've made! That's the whole basis of the Minecraft ask blog community! That we all have different Minecraft lore and stories, and that we all love having them interact and intertwine!

💚 In the past, I've received nasty, mean messages because of people saying I have too many Minecraft OCs, for not following some of the Minecraft canon, because a lot of my OCs aren't vanilla or canon Minecraft species. But I've pushed past it, because this is my Minecraft story to write, one that makes me happy, and I shouldn't care that other people are writing their own Minecraft stories that make them happy too.

💚 I don't know about you guys, but I'm going to see the Minecraft movie, no matter how bad people think it looks. No matter how many kids are going to see it too. No matter that Herobrine isn't canon in it. No matter that I have my own Minecraft OCs with their own lore and mechanics in my stories.

💚 I'm going to see the Minecraft movie, because I think it looks fun, and because I know that it's going to be a good story, just like mine, just like all the people I've seen with their own stories.

💚 Minecraft is a storytelling game at its core. Let Mojang tell a story of their own, because this is their game too. 💚

[blackmesaflashbackepisode]

What is it like then??? -🎸

Benrey: look man i dunno if you're fresh enough to "get" any of this yet. forzen definitely wasn't. but i'm not... like you dude.

i'm a glitch. i was s'posed ta be the big ugly baby or whatever, but something got fucked up and now i'm... this.

[He gesticulates vaguely to himself.]

Benrey: and it must be soooo nice that all you guys have your little fake fake baby fake MEMORIES or whatever but i don't. okay? i'm the super cool bonus extra mode character who doesnt have any part in the story.

when you guys get to the end youre gonna have to beat me up.

Benrey: and itll be REALLY funny. i wanna punch you all so bad you bleed a little. cos thats how we play together. killin and shit. allll the violence.

Benrey: and then itll be over. and you all get to ascend to little npc heaven or whatever.

but this game, man... it's all there is. it's all there'll ever be.

i just figured- i dunno. maybe i could get you and i to have some fun times before the end. show you the sandbox. spawn a father grigori again.

all this fake stuff just made you sad, anyways.

Coomer: You know, it... It's strange, you say that... And yet, we've all been constantly trying to... fit you in to our backstories...

Benrey: yeah i mean- yeah. i dont remember it but its whatever.

Coomer: Bah- it's ALL fake! But the CONNECTIONS... they ARE real! Benrey, we're "remembering" you because YOU ARE PART OF THE SCIENCE TEAM! And that means... this isn't just some... some pre-scripted backstory...

Coomer: THAT'S IT! We... we ARE alive! In a way! We're advanced technological pieces of code! We're writing our OWN backstories! Benrey, isn't that INCREDIBLE?!

[He grabs Benrey by the shoulders and shakes him.]

Benrey: uhhh- it is pretty nice yeah-

[vinnamah]

Haven't tried asking here yet. Here goes nothing.

I'm looking for game suggestions! Co-op games that work and are still fun with only 2 players. Online/local co-op only, no splitscreen. Ideally for Steam, but I will look into Switch or PS2/Playstation options. PLEASE read below on what we are and are not looking for, if you want to make a suggestion!

We like cozy games. Farming sim games, puzzle-platformer games, sandbox/open-world games, (easy not-grindy) survival/craft games. We are looking for games with a LOT of content in them, and/or games with the theoretically endless gameplay loop. We're looking to sink dozens to hundreds of hours into a game together, since playing videogames together is something we do for a few hours every night. Our bonding activity.

We are not looking for combat-heavy games. Shooter games. Sports games. Really hard and grindy games. Racing games. Not looking to jump into an MMO together. Not looking for an AMAZING game that only has 2 hours of content and zero replayability. No party or gameshow style games.

Games we do like but have played to death already:

Stardew Valley (vanilla and modded)

Wolfquest

Phasmophobia

PlateUp!

Minecraft (vanilla and modded)

Palworld

Webfishing

Trying out Portal 2 co-op mode today

Other games we have already played, or considered but haven't yet:

Pokemon Scarlet/Violet, we wish there was more stuff to do TOGETHER, instead of just running around in a shared map doing separate things

Lethal Company and Content Warning we have only ever played with our roommate/mutual friend, since with only 2 players they aren't that great

Donkey Kong Country trilogy on the Switch SNES emulator (Co-op mode in these games is just taking turns, which isn't fun for whoever's turn it isn't)

Viscera Cleanup Detail we have played only a little bit of, and got bored after one map. This feels like another game that is better with a bigger group of people

It Takes Two is on our list to try, but haven't gotten around to jumping through the EA hoops to set up a game together. To play online co-op, we both have to have EA accounts, and trying to set that all up was a huge hassle that we gave up trying to sort out.

Powerwash Simulator we played. It is fun, but very repetitive and not much to do and not much story.

Untitled Goose Game is very short, and we have already done everything in the game together

We've played some of the Lego games together, but those only offer splitscreen co-op, and with her bad eyesight fiancée really needs to be able to play on her own screen

Sun Haven gave me the ick. I got it for both of us right around when it released. But the way the dev team and staff in the discord server treated members making suggestions, and the way they prioritized generating paid cosmetic DLC over fixing bugs and glitches or implementing features that the entire community was begging for, as well as keeping kickstarter backers in the dark about when the Switch version was coming, it all rubbed me the wrong way. It felt like a soul-less Stardew Valley clone. There are also game design decisions that really made the game un-fun for both of us.

[gyaru-tau]

Since I'm kinda on a protozoa rainbow kick from yesterday morning's post, lemme yap a little bit more about Some of the other characters; Talulu in particular!! She's your very typical child protagonist who gets roped into business that somebody her age should never, EVER have to get involved in! it's the result of a long domino chain and once Lulu takes a few steps in, she can never walk out.

She's very plucky and high energy, but can be very impulsive and short-tempered. She likes fishing and marine biology, playing computer games (her favorite is a popular sandbox game called PrismSekai), and fashion!! She lost both her parents at a very young age, but lives happily with her adoptive caretaker (omitting info on him for now since he's still very in-progress. he doesn't even have a name yet) who either runs an orphanage or a schoolhouse. I haven't quite decided yet oops.

Lemme explain how magical girls work in this universe; Currently they're just called magical girls as a stand-in since deciding on a name for them is a struggle I've been having on and off since this story's conception, but anybody can be a "magical girl", and it's not restricted to any age group or gender or what have you. It's more like a race of humans on its own, or being born with specific genetics.

All of the "magical girls" follow the exact same rules in this universe; when one of them is born, somewhere else; be it close by or in a location determined by fate, an object will appear, and no matter what they do, it will always find its way to them. Usually it's something very small. Nothing that can't fit in your pocket.

They go by a lot of names depending on where you are in the world or what object they take the form of, but they all have the ability to summon forth a person's universe-determined companion (sorry for all the boring names so far, I'm still workshopping this stuff before i commit to any permanent cool terminology), who will allow them to transform! These companions are all typically fairly large and more often than not, range from looking moderately to incredibly odd!! Sometimes even a little scary!!

These companions do have personalities and can speak, but they aren't able to think for themselves or really make decisions influenced by anybody other than the person they're assigned by fate. Whether or not they're aware of this varies from companion to companion, but Lulu's companion, Shin'ya, is one of those more aware ones. He's a would-be voice of reason that acknowledges that he cannot physically fulfill that role in his most base form.

When a person wishes to transform with their companion, the companion's body itself will turn into the user's weapon, while their consciousness is transferred directly to the user's body. It is in this form that the companion's personalty will merge with their user's, thus giving them the ability to think for themselves, although it will only match the ideals of said user. I hope literally any of that makes sense.

In her transformed mode, Lulu's battling becomes more competant and focused, drawing out that inner voice of reason that Shin'ya's personality is otherwise unable to apply. Though it should be said that a user can also transform halfway by only having their companion become their weapon but not transfer their consciousness, or they can have their consciousness be transferred while the body of the companion just sits there like an emotionless husk. Depending on the companion, this can prove to be useful in some ways!

And in terms of Lulu on her own, that's kinda all I got. htgdfgtyj. But I hope you enjoyed this short yap session regardless!!