#back to basics review

[mgu-h]

Lando Review 27/? • Sept 2021 • "Blowie" Meltdown

+ adding the video beneath the cut on this one just because the sound of his laughter really is important and i want to have it easily available lmao

[xuethms]

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[cloudbends]

Didn't post about it but hsr 3.3 having some genuinely very good video game storytelling wasn't something I was expecting but of course I'm very happy with. The sense of urgency and desperation and everything crumbling was reflected incredibly well. and the voice acting alone made me ridiculously emotional I cannot lie. every word out of phainon's mouth made me feel like I have a lump in my throat

[pastafossa]

Are you gonna give updates when you eventually play Expedition 33? I’m gonna be really curious on your thoughts when playing it. I’m 12 hours in and it might be contending to be my favorite game! Might also be the Charlie cox bias 🤭

I WILL, yes! I've got it loaded up on my PC and am a decent way in, I'm loving the world, the characters, and Charlie's voice obviously. Game of the Year material easy, it's such a stunning RPG and is already in my top 3 with Mass Effect and Morrowind! I have had to stop at least for a bit, I found once my med dosage dropped below a certain point as I taper off, my ability to dodge and parry has absolutely tanked. 😂 I'm waiting until I'm on the new med to keep going cause the fights are only getting harder. I want to do a full review at the end though, I've played a ton of games over the years and this one is absolute quality.

[velvetjune]

Yay, finished with DS! I’m happy i gave Death Strandiing a shot after being skeptical I’d ever like it with how much negativity surrounds it, but now I can’t figure out how to ever recommend or describe it, since pretty much all criticism surrounding it is true. the writing and naming is sometimes atrocious, there’s hours of cutscenes stacked atop each other with lengthy complicated plot, the game is mostly walking or slowly driving in silence for 50-100+ hours, most of the side characters are forgettable and celebrity cameos, ‘Mario and Princess Beach,’ etc. However, it’s fantastic and weird, please play it

[villa-kulla]

2024 in review:

January: Strong start, fun at work, creative plans, many outings with new people, successful birthday cocktail bash thrown, plans to keep the momentum going -

January 23rd: cat dies

February: depression/crippling loneliness

March: depression/crippling loneliness

April: depression/crippling loneliness

May: depression/crippling loneliness

June: depression/crippling loneliness

July: depression/crippling loneliness/therapy

August: start dating this guy with whom i have a history because that's just what people do isn't it? he loves me and is ready to settle down, so maybe this is it, maybe i should just settle and join this club of monogamy and kids that i've watched every single one of my close friends join over the past 3 years, leaving my the 7th wheel at every single social function because it's ridiculous that I'm in my early 30s and my most significant relationship was with a cat, maybe it's time to finally grow up and settle for someone, you had a very slutty bisexual 20s back when it was cute, but as long as you're still somewhat attracted to guys, might as well let the pendulum settle that way because it'll be societally easier for you in the long run, and all the while you can ignore the voice in the back of your head that this is wrongwrongwrong and you don't want this, also it's too embarrassing to have a sexuality crisis in your 30s when you've been out since your teens but whatever, and you should settle down anyways because maybe it'll give your life purpose i mean look at your past year, maybe you wouldn't have taken the death of your cat so hard, at least you'd have a built-in social circle, and everyone does say that they never felt truly alive until they have kids/partner, and while your parents never pressure you they've certainly hinted that it's weird you haven't settled down yet and you'd be happier with a family of your own, therefore obviously my life must have no other value, maybe they're right, so let's settle down with a guy whom i quite honestly find irritating now and who doesn't spark joy but it's been hard to tell because everything is irritating to me lately and nothing sparks joy, and i try so hard and stay reasonably social and have hobbies that get me out of the house and am financially stable with a challenging full-time job that's sometimes rewarding and eat well and exercise a lot and these are all Healthy™ things to do so why do i feel like dying every time i wake up and have to face getting through the day, and isn't it pitiful that the one who was always Little Miss Talented and Smart and Pretty growing up has amounted to a sad, lonely, unfulfilled girl who hasn't lived up to any of her creative potential, and people will always see her as a cat lady except even more pathetic because her cat is dead, and maybe my best years are really behind me, and i'll just be stuck forever tagging along after friends who've moved on with their lives, so better commit to this guy you find tiresome right because husband + kids = happiness, maybe those nuclear family people are onto something, maybe husbands and kids are for when the rest of your friends get husbands and kids and you start to lose them because the friendship is different no matter what anyone says, and you've always been good at forcing yourself to do what's good for you, and deep down you know this is nonsense and won't solve anything, but it can't possibly make things worse than you've felt all year, and also this Guy feels like his life is starting over with you, but you feel like your life is ending with him, and the only reason you'd stay with him is so people don't pity you, and more than anything you can't bear for people to pity you and you suspect they all secretly are pitying you simply because you're single and there must therefore be something fundamentally wrong with you, and you used to be able to dismiss thoughts like that as stupid, but then again you used to be a lot more happy, and it gets harder and harder to ignore the thought that something is wrong with you, and the only thing worse than other people's pity is self-pity and every time you stop and think about your unhappiness you cry because you don't see how you'll ever feel happy again and you know you don't deserve to feel this way, but you can't actually remember the last time you were happy, it was certainly before your cat died, and I miss him so much and could this guy just stop fucking texting me for one second, oh god it's me, hi, i'm the problem it's me -

September: depression (but busy!)

October: Meds! / break up with guy + floods of relief!

November: Don't even remember

December: Actually kind of okay!

Anyway, Happy almost New Year!

[clansunsharp]

okay i tracked down the forum post i won eyne from and apparently my memory cant be trusted and i won both of them from the same raffle. they came as a set. (i could have sworn i bought rhys as fodder but what do i know) so that explains how they ended up in the same clan. but i guess the mystery now is how the hell did i forget they were siblings?? and how do they look so different? i have ZERO memory of scattering/breed changing them, but this was nine years ago so.

ANYWAY the long lost siblings angle is too dramatic not to use so im going with that instead of the real story which is i Fucking Forgot. fuck it we ball

[allgremlinyaps]

a few weeks ago I said I would NAWT be discussing natla in-depth or giving actual analysis but unfortunately I'm a huge liar and a weak, ridiculous person who is currently re-watching it to do just that....

[thegreathomestuckreread]

okay. i think perhaps the terrible, terrible moment has arrived. i need to find a new photo editing program

photoshop elements 8, my beloved dedicated photoshop elements 8 from the free software disc that came with my wacom bamboo tablet in 2012, is no longer opening certain types of gif files

it's possible it was never capable of opening these gifs idk, it's specifically gifs with a lot of frames that aren't opening, like the painting gifs from chicory a colourful tale, or the plot point gif from homestuck beyond canon

there is also the fact that a very long time ago i started having issues with the scroll bars not moving properly and needing to use specific shortcuts to scroll around. so the writing's been on the wall for a while, this is a sixteen-year-old program that was bound to stop working eventually and the time has come for me to finally grit my teeth and find something new

please if anyone has any recommendations for photo editing programs i would appreciate it

relevant information:

i already know about gimp, paint.net, pixlr, and photopea. i am looking for something more fully-featured and not browser-based (needs to be an application that can be downloaded, installed on my computer, and used offline)

i'm willing to pay some for something good but only a one-time fee for full ownership of a program i refuse to engage with subscription services

also down for some yo ho ho if anyone has resources for that

i need something that has both strong photo editing tools and illustration tools because i use both of those (although moreso the photo editing tools)

needs to be able to open large gifs with lots of frames, as well as save to gif format with robust options

needs a transform tool that can turn anti-aliasing on and off freely. it can't be turned off in pse8 and that has been annoying for editing pixel art, which i need to do a lot for making homestuck upd8 video thumbnails

needs to be able to flip/rotate/etc. specific layers without having to do that to the entire image. pse8 can only do flips like that with the entire image, i've been cutting layers into a new document flipping them and repasting them back into the original document to get around it which is very annoying

need to be able to see the whole image when using the liquefy tool, not just the layer i'm working on. pse8 will pull the single layer you're working on into an isolated popout window with a white background to use the liquefy tool so you can't see whether it's proportionally correct to the rest of the image

hmmmm that's all i can think of rn. thank u for reading this post it came out way too long lol and thank u for suggestions if u have any!

[papaya-inspiration]

Goddamn, I always forget how slow writing is. Even when I'm writing something "easy" where I already know what I want to say, even when it's something that doesn't need a high quality final product, even when it's something fun that I'm excited to write -- none of that actually speeds up the process all that much! Simply putting the words in a sensible and okay-sounding order just takes time.

[review-anon]

What exactly are we after in that mission?

Aha good question.

Basically since Aqua came from that planet, there's got to be other members of their species around and we can work out what materials they're made off.

For the record this isn't fucking Discovery Channel, so we are gonna try and find parts that belong to Aqua's species.

We collect enough parts, we can figure out how they work and then we can make the crucial repairs me and Kisagari need to do to fully restore Aqua.

In otherwords its a reconnaissance and extraction mission.

Of course Pathos is a very hostile planet so we need to be prepared.

[moreaujeans]

im signed up for an online english course with a professor who has actually some of the worst rate my professor reviews i have ever seen most of which talk about how she never replies to emails and/or didn’t start putting in grades until like the last two weeks of class and she’s currently refusing to even open the course until wednesday… head in hands

[titsthedamnseason]

everyone lied to me about the bergman brothers these books are kind of bad

[itzphynix]

Had a dream that I can only describe as working like a FNaF-style lease review where if you fuck up thr FNaF-style part you die, & if you fuck up the lease review part you lose your home.

[violntfemme]

oh my god i need to stop going onto tumblr after writint a single sentence. Doli this is why you cant get shit done

[pochapal]

clocks changed and now it's bright out at 7pm