#combat is improved

[habunshu]

i have to keep living with hope in my heart no matter what.

[stale-cornflakes]

2BDamned Reference Sheet

2BDamned (Doc) He/She

Doc!! I've been meaning to make a proper reference for her for a while so that I can show off my ever-growing headcanons. I won't delay my ramblings of this design for long, so let's get into them.

2BDamned (Doc) He/She agender

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Torn Achilles Tendon that weakens his ability to properly walk as well as persistent pain in the affected area.

Ambulatory Wheelchair user due to his affected leg. The pain fluctuates daily leading him to use his wheelchair around the base and cane on good days.

Foldable Cane that he never holds correctly, and if anyone tries to point it out he denies that he's holding it wrong, even if it's on the wrong side.

Insulin patch on her right arm in order to regulate her Type 1 Diabetes.

Doc wears glasses & owns 2 different pairs. One for missions with the red tint and strap & a regular pair for everyday use.

Brown puffy jacket - Based off of my own jacket!

Yellow blood from being a former ATP Engineer.

Uneven and poor scarring on cheeks from events of his dissention - Attacked by a Soldat (Inspired by @pritong-baboy's An Act of Solace)

Various scars from punctures to lacerations across his body.

D-03 clone number + barcode on the right ankle (also inspired by An Act of Solace)

heavy duty boots and regularly wears his jacket due to getting cold easily.

Close-ups under cut

[tskilmarir]

small contrapuntal about my silly little original guy i am normal about

inspired by @two-bees-poetry

[ohnoitsz1m]

Uhh post canon Barney

Man who has not had a break since the rescas and refuses to start now. Alyx and Gordon are hiding his gear as we speak while Kleiner distracts him.

I was sposed to do Alyx too but I blinked and it was 3 am so. Next time

Oh also I forgot to make a note but he does carry a sidearm

[hetheymerrill]

Insane how many problems are caused by the fact that "RPG" can refer to a game with certain gameplay mechanics and to a game in which you roleplay a character and how the overlap of people who are fans of these 2 things is getting smaller and smaller and also now both these groups hate each other.

[docsbestkissedoperative]

ok girldoc

[queenboimler]

people who complain about/dislike the combat episodes in d20....do you guys actually play any ttrpgs?

[sivon-acidwyrm-collections]

My somewhat normal headcanons+notes about the Retainers

I don't have much to say about this other than I really wanted to share how I see them, since they make me a little sane. A little....

Here's the two retainers with no text, just staring at eachother, heehoo

[jeebits]

regarding sanford ..

[strqyr]

one of the oddities i find in the show is how little team rwby is actually shown training at beacon. seriously, i can only think of weiss fighting the boarbatusk and that's it; team jnpr has both jaune and pyrrha sparring during combat classes, and nora's comment about glynda barely yelling at them anymore at least implies training and improvement, even if we never see it to that extent.

meanwhile team rwby just shows up one day with brand new team attacks that they execute perfectly and it's like. they're in school. seeing or at the very least (bc i'm desperate here lol) them talking about practicing them beforehand would have been nice.

it's like they made them a bit too "perfect" from the get-go combat-wise—which inadvertently also makes pyrrha "the invincible girl" nikos less like a big deal she's meant to be—as the fight scenes were a big draw for the show, which left for very little space for any noticeable improvement in that department.

even the improvement that is there is like... most of it you only hear about it when it becomes relevant; for example, i don't remember ever thinking that summoning was something weiss was, by theory, capable of doing until winter shows up and they talk about it; there simply weren't there any signs of weiss training with her glyphs and being frustrated with it for some at the time unknown reason, or literally anything hinting towards it.

in general, i think part of the problem is that there isn't any clear "standard" that characters can be compared to. grimm would be perfect here if they had obvious "difficulty classes"; for example, grimm with no / very little bone armour are young and inexperienced (thus easier to kill, allowing those cool fight scenes even when the main characters are still students), and the more bone armour a grimm has, the older it is and more the difficulty rises. so eventually, grimm that proved challenging at beacon become easier and easier to fight throughout the show, so even if the characters don't get new powers or moves or even see the training or whatever, the audience still clearly sees the improvement.

...this post went into a different direction than i intended... oh well, such is life, enjoy the, uh, monday critique, i guess?

[daily-madcom-drawings]

Day 53

Bug

[iexistapparantly]

When youre REALLY digging in there to get the eyelash that fell on yo face

[mav-the-artist]

UNSTOPPABLE NEVADEAN CHAMPION

[nishitanis-left-nut]

infinite wealths got 14 chapters, im not gonna pretend like i didn't start the game foaming at the mouth wanting to see kiryu again but I didn't think he'd show up as early as chapter 3? i dont want to complain about More Kiryu but bringing him back at the very beginning of the game feels wrong, like theyre admitting that they couldn't make ichiban work on his own so they had to bring in John Yakuza himself to keep the fans happy or something. i had to stop playing after they get out of the car so idk if Kiryu leaves the party again soon after, but even then it feels weird to have him there at all so early on

and... the info dumps and verbal recaps of what happened on other games were never this bad were they? i get how they wanted to vaguely treat infinite wealth as its own thing and how, it being the 8th or so game in the franchise and all, a lot of people would not have played most or even any of the previous games (why you would bother with infinite wealth if thats the case is a mystery to me but eh) so they wanted to make sure everyone playing was vaguely caught up with ichiban and kiryus story but like... I was there. yes i do remember kiryus pretending to be dead to protect his family, yes i do remember how ichiban has two dads. why would they make him say that around six times in just the first three chapters?

and i get how they felt like they HAD to introduce kiryu properly since, again, a lot of people playing infinite wealth probably just played LaD and nothing else, but even in LaD they didn't just dump kiryus backstory on you. did i miss something why does ichiban just know everything about kiryu when they made it pretty clear in LaD that he never found out anything about him? when they parted ways in yakuza 7 he was still referring to him as "that guy" or "the dragon" because of the dream he had and seonhee didn't tell him anything, even after kiryu left, so how does he just know his name and his backstory now and why does KIRYU act as if he gave him that information himself. i was there, you have no reason to find it normal that he even knows your name????? i am losing my fuking mind over this actually

the info dumping is so weird, if you dont know who this mysterious man that seems to have a troubled past and Feels Important to the narrative is... too bad? skill issue even?? (its kind of on you if youre confused about things after jumping into the 8th instalment in a franchise) if y7 made you curious about him, the game being vague about who he is and what hes doing here did its job well since now youll most likely play the previous games to find out what his deal is, and if you dont, thats okay too since Ichiban was supposed to be the New Protagonist. but since they didnt keep kiryu as an "easter egg" (how could they even do that. its Kiryu.) now it feels like him and ichiban arent even fighting for relevancy, it feels like theyre actively pushing ichi farther back into kiryus shadow

and it feels like the more the games go on the more they dont seem to take the world building seriously (like how the florist just doesn't exist in yakuza 6 because the game would've been over the moment kiryu got to kamurocho, and him not existing anymore carried over to the games after it) maybe i should replay the games now without rose colored glasses but i dont remember ever feeling like i was watching the writers talk to me directly this aggressively in a scene before? this is just the third chapter i get theyre still just setting things up but... i think its just ichiban

the man who erased his name didnt feel like how infinite wealth is feeling and it came out before it, but after yakuza 7. idk what it is about having ichiban as the protagonist that seems to make the writers just... idk. ichiban had a lot of potential at the beginning of y7 but then by the end of the game it felt like that was it, his story got wrapped up. and i know we could say the same thing about kiryu but at least with him the writers made it make sense and work according to his characterization (eh...)

but ichiban is just A Nice Guy which couldve worked really well but hes such a simple character that they just dont know what to do with him? like oh yea his mom is alive actually so lets send him to hawaii to find her. uh a big tiddie vtuber canceled him online. i guess. (im also realizing now that i actually kinda hate how the games take place in the modern day. i know there was never a way to work around that since the games have always worked like this and you being as frustrated and annoyed as ichiban and kiryu are is kinda the point but. eh.)

i know im biased as all hell since i love kiryu, but what made kiryu falling back into the yakuza world over and over again believable and compelling was the fact that yea, the world "outside of him" still exists, politicians and police officers are still corrupt, old friends still need him, and his reputation still makes waves through the underworld and them crashing in on him over and over and over again until he just lets the tide take him made sense- i know im oversimplifying his story and yea they made a lot of weird and inconsistent writing decisions through the games (again, i dont think the florist even gets mentioned in y6 and the time line in general has a bunch of plot holes, majimas story too) but it. idk. the direction theye taking things in is weird and i hope Pirates doesnt feel like this

hes wholesome and prettty and nice and i like h im

[dakotameh]

2024 Art Summary! I just realized how little to nothing green tones I tend to use on my art,, I got a whole year to change that tho >:DD

[halflifesk666]

Idk if people understand but I found inner peace in the most violent sport ever. Combat sports turn you different mentally and I’m thankful for growth and improvement.