#replay value

[plasmalink]

hey dude, your bathroom has crazy replay value

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[sburbian-sage]

I don't think I want to escape the game anymore.

I have my roles, and I fill them. At this point I can practically autopilot through most sessions.

I have no idea what I would do, if I could actually live in a universe I created. The game teaches you some stuff about governance and economy and whatnot sometimes, to prepare you, but it doesn't feel like enough.

Actually setting up a civilization, ruling over it as a god- hell, even just participating in it as a normal citizen- just sounds somehow both overwhelming and boring at the same time now.

What do I do, if the door ever does work?

"I don't think I even WANT to escape the game at this point" threads happen seemingly every other week. However, this template vent post is a bit more unique, because it actually does raise a question a lot of people wonder about. "Once I create a new universe, what do I do with it".

First of all, I can tell you what NOT to do.

Get your hopes up lmao. If the Door does start working it's not happening anytime soon.

But if it ever does happen, post shit like this. Don't do it if the Door works for everyone, because you will immediately identify yourself as a contrarian, a half-dead wanderer in the desert who finally found an oasis and has the gall to complain about it. DEFINITELY don't do it if the Door works for you alone. I want you to imagine, thousands of people suffering in Purgatory forever, sometimes falling into Hell and never returning. When ONE guy makes it into Heaven and starts bellyaching about how the grass was greener. Sometimes we can keep our thoughts to ourselves. Someone is already yelling at you for posting this, and they don't even have a face to direct their fury towards.

If you decide to roll up your sleeves and learn how to build a civilization, look at online guides. Yes, they exist. Yes, they are 100% speculative, seeing as how nobody's ever done it yet. And yes, it's mostly people with extremely fringe and untested politics writing wankfics about how once they plant the seeds for new humanity, Merito-Monarchy with Maoist characteristics will be their guiding polestar. SBURB is also a bad teacher in this regard, because you're basically doing middle-school projects and dealing with Consorts, but SBURB is bad in the way a bleeding wound is bad, as opposed to "the bone's exposed, dump it into raw meat ASAP".

Carry the SBURB discs you used to play THIS Session to immediately start a new one. I don't even know if that'll work, considering the discs are basically magic, but that's the worst possible idea and your Coplayers should communally kick you around for even considering this idea, that I implanted in your head.

But as for what you should be doing... It's a bit difficult to talk about, because I actually have no idea what the state of this hypothetical "universe we step out into" would look like. A lot of people on the "here's how I build a new society" threads assume they'll step out into a flat, featureless grassy plain which they'll need to terraform and popular through ectobiology, and "unpopulated but randomly generated terrain, like Minecraft" is the second most common assumption. But in the same way we keep New Game +'ing into a pre-existing world with millennia of history, who's to say that won't happen on a successful Session, but it's a world that knows what you did and is expecting your arrival gratefully? Who's to say that there will even be *anything* in there, and that you'll have to initiate a Big Bang-esque event as your first act upon entry? Is there a SBURBan post-game we don't know about, featuring new tools in the Phernalia Registry that allow you to reshape reality like a painter with an inkbrush?

But I get ahead of myself. I don't even want to do the "lmao it'll never happen lmao don't worry about it lmao" thing because I myself enjoy being contrarian and want to start making you imagine a world where you enter a new universe which you now have to *live* in. Because you're being a bit of a whiner right now and I want you to suffer, because life is suffering. And I mean that positively. I've suffered in the course of running my blog, suffered attempting to 100% video games (even the ones I like), suffered producing art. But the only one who's never suffered from making art, is someone who's never made art. Desire leads to suffering, but a life lived without desire is a life lived without direction or purpose. Most self-help posts end with "develop a hobby" but really you should develop a hobby. Avoid "auto-pilot", not only because that's a particular flavor of pride before the fall (and the falls tend to be pretty lethal), but because if you ever end up getting killed, it'd suck to realize you died before you were killed.

That will get the juices flowing in your brain enough to find the prospect of building a society from the ground up a lot more feasible. A challenge worthy of taking on. I guess I did never end up actually answering the question of "what do if I end up creating a new universe for real this time", but considering how much is unknown, I would have to establish multiple courses of action depending on which assumption is true. Which would be a lot to just dump on someone, and all for the purposes of being another piece of non-actionable speculation on the pre-existing mountain of the same. It might make for an interesting post in the future, however.

[postclasspecting]

good meme, which is a Maid of Mind

Maid: Passive (and only, see everything about clown) Performer class

Mind: the Brain, Electricity (and are the de-facto therapists)

[clairedelune-13]

I’ve heard people complain about inquisition putting a gender gate onto some of the romances.

But that’s a good thing?

It inspires replayability.

Solas only being romanceable to a fem lavellan means you have to create that inquisitor.

You can also romance Sera.

And Blackwall.

But then there’s the male-only like Dorian and Cassandra.

That was actually difficult.

I had to avoid the fucking library for my Cassandra run. I couldn’t not flirt with Dorian.

I only romanced her once 🤣

My point is, locking certain romances gives a game higher replay value.

Veilguard doesn’t have that when it comes to the romances. Because everyone is pansexual. 

Which is fine, if there was any real differences in Rook’s background.

But they all carry the same flavor of bland.

Rook’s race is hardly acknowledged.

It’s really only aesthetic.

I remember when I made a Adaar and it was actually kind of cool. Jon Curry really fit him.

I will not be making a Qunari Rook, because I fucking hate the new design.

It sucks.

[maxmayfieldswalkman]

the rise and fall of a midwest princess has a godly level of replay value i literally listen to it every day and never get bored

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When ever I draw Lilith my friends and I call it 'missing her hours'. Reference

[sburbian-sage]

Hey there, groovyMoonbird again (currently a mage of hope, whats with the hope class)

I talked a bit about this last time ( i apologize about the radical change in tone during that post i figured out a bit back how to make alcohol using some berries i alchemized)

Dont know how long its been for you but its been around 3 months for me since the end of my last session

Ive found myself here alone in this session, as far as i can tell and what youve told me, i either have a solo session or based on what i know about the void class a missing player, but even void doesn't quite line up with some of this

I went ahead and checked a few dungeons before i found a duo-dungeon

Its not blank persay, as it has a large square as the secondary symbol, not sure what this could indicate

Far more alarming however is that my denizen is also gone, im having large stretches where my memory blanks (even when i dont drink) and i continue to be normal blind in my fucked up eye

Said fuck it and went to challenge my denizen in a half drunken rage only to find nothing, everything has been looted and cleared out

Land is nothing special as far as i can tell (land of bushes and swamps)

The reason im so concerned is that i haven't slept at all since starting this session and staring at the square on dungeons makes my teeth hurt and fills my mouth with a sugary saliva , so im certain that i have a doppelganger situation occurring

The consorts are addressing me as two people now

Im afraid that something is very very wrong with this session

Wait, groovyMoonbird, you were the anon stuck in the solo session? Right after getting noclipped into the Furthest Ring? I think you have the worst luck I've ever seen in my life, given the frequency with which you find yourself in improbable situations. Do yourself a favor and please contact a gamebreaking community at some point, I'm sure they'll love you, and also have zillions of questions.

A Saccharine Doppleganger may be possible, if you're experiencing sudden sugar tastings (or sympathetic sugar rushes, which might be contributing to any pain or black-outs), but a lot of this behavior doesn't line up with what scant reports of Saccharine Dopplegangers that exist. While they are copies of you, they aren't player entities. I'm pretty sure the Consorts shouldn't be acknowledging them, and the game registering them another player and generating a false Aspect for them is just straight-up impossible. Killing the denizen is also highly unusual behavior, they usually just shittify your house by making thousands of Fancy Santas, and then they track you down and do something unspeakable to you. Speaking of which, if you can get to an Alchemiter, JPG-ify your gun. Saccharine Dopplegangers tend to make Zilly equipment, and Artifact is the only hard counter to that kind of stuff. It will be a janky-ass gun you probably can't even hold correctly, but that will be your best tool in the fight. I want you to know I'm being sincere right now, this isn't a prank.

Now here's the bad news. Without your Denizen, you're kind of fucked. I once again don't think the Saccharine Doppleganger killed it, but point is, they're pretty useful when you're completely lost up Poop Creek without a paddle, or a boat. The good news is, we don't actually know what happened to it. It could have just not spawned because not all players are in the session yet. It could just be hiding and fucking with you. After you're done mopping up the Candy Thing, I'd reccomend scouring for any signs of the potential missing players. The Duo Dungeon is a lead, but there's also the Dream Moons and any SBURB-related forums on Earth (or whatever planet you came from), assuming you haven't 100% confirmed that Earth is 100% destroyed.

You survived too much for some sort of Void Session to kill you. Fight on, groovyMoonbird!

[postclasspecting]

Intro Post

Hello, Multi-session sburb veteran here, i give posts mythological titles (class and aspects)

I am Mark Warren, Native Seer of Hope, Current Knight of Breath, on the Land of Miasma and Storms

OOC Blog Explanation:

i give blogs classpects, i list the places where the classes and aspects are done as this is Replay Value Au, would highly recomend reading Sburb Glitch Faq, and then other Replay Value AU works, it's good

the explanations:

[postclasspecting]

to: all my troll friends

reblog if you are not hemophobic!!

THIS should be on everyone’s blog!

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What have I posted what have I not posted I dont know anyways here we go art dump

[sburbian-sage]

Maybe it's none of my business, but the stuff you said to that Knight of Time a bit ago seems kinda whack. The "take their advice and point to your dead time-clone to show them they're dumb" thing?

I mean, that's suicide. A part of you lives on I guess, and Time players kill themselves accidentally all the time with this shit, I get that, but I don't think you should do it willy-nilly to prove a point, especially since you don't know if you'll end up as the clone or the alpha, right?

Not to mention, the concern wasn't just dooming themself, it was making a doomed timeline, wasn't it? So they'd also be killing alts of all their coplayers... They aren't less real just because you can't see them...

And like, I put up with reading things written by nihilistic assholes all the time, but with how you reacted to that guy who was conspiring to kill the Grace of Time, I though you had a pretty idealistic mindset toward the non-necessity of death.

I have an idealistic mindset toward the non-necessity of meaningful deaths. If someone's Got Tiger and wants to start doing XTREME STUNTS on the Dream Moons and they break their neck, who am I to judge, they'll just get back up.

In the case above, it was more of a macabre joke. Taking the advice likely would indeed end with a Doomed Timeline and loads of Doomed Timeclones. But would not taking the advice not lead to a Doomed Timeline? From what I understand, all the Doomed Timeclones are, essentially, versions of yourself who strayed from the Alpha Timeline. Every decision you make that conforms to the Alpha Timeline, another version of yourself did not, and exists in a Doomed Timeline, with there likely being thousands of Doomed Timelines we don't ever see. From my perspective, the version of the Knight of Time who doesn't take the advice necessarily creates a Doomed Timeline where they did take the advice, so it would have existed regardless of whether or not I (jokingly) advised him to humor their coplayer. The only real effect my advice has would be that, if the Knight of Time agrees, then the Doomed Timeclone, when they realize they're Doomed, would travel back to the Alpha Timeline and pop in to say "shit didn't work we all died". Which, from the Time Player's perspective, is pointing at a corpse that spontaneously manifests after saying "sure let's try that".

It's probably also worth mentioning that this idea isn't even a skepticArbiter Original, I was in a session with a Time Player who would pull this maneuver on me as a joke. One time when we were at the weekly movie night (not my idea) and I asked him to get me a soda. He said he couldn't do it because he knows that he didn't get it, and so getting it would create a Doomed Timeline. Then I asked him to get it again, and he said "sure" and his own corpse fell out of the nearby closet like it was a horror movie. And while everyone was screaming and crying I asked him to get the soda a third time, and he said "yeah sure", captchalogued the dead body, and got me my soda. And then we watched all Yu Yu Hakusho. Time Players, from my experience, tend to be pretty blase about this sort of stuff.

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Let's get it out of the way now, I'm playing a troll in Replay Value (Rpgstuck campaign) her name is Solari and she's a twitch streamer/ pinup artist. Got a whole lot of pinup pieces that will slowly make their way here.

Reference: Bettie Page

[postclasspecting]

this post is a... Maid of Stage

Maid: Passive Performance class

Stage: Metafictional Author Figures, The Story, Theater

by storyboard supervisor Erik Fountain

A few years ago, Erik put together these updated AT storyboard guidelines for new board artists and revisionists.

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Lamia and the Soldier by John William Waterhouse Addition: Realized this one could really use a close up.