#so I want to try and simulate that

[moeblob]

So does he, Gallagher.

[readerattheend]

When his face and hair are 10s but his nickname is White Radish and he has a god complex...

[bartholomew-junior]

i’m so proud of ayano’s portrait

[kinokoshoujoart]

romeo!! or rock….? idk he’s the ds guy. y’know

[4denthusiast]

Of the principles in Cultist Simulator, some seem easier than others to get a feeling for what the common thread is meant to be in their themes, and Heart seemed like one of the more confusing to me, but I feel like I have a better idea of it now after having thought about it in the context of literal hearts. I know in theory that the heart is made of a different kind of muscle from the skeletal muscle, and it's specialised to work continuously, but intuitively it feels weird that it never rests. It speeds up and slows down as needed, but it never stops. If you're lucky, your heart may beat continuously for a hundred years, never pausing once in all that time. If it's injured, it just heals while working. If it's not strong enough for the demands placed on it, it gets stronger while working. Normal muscles need a mixture of work and rest to get stronger, but not the heart, or at least not in the same way. If it pauses for just a minute, that's a life-threatening emergency. Occasionally (particularly if I have a blocked nose), I feel tired of breathing, and take a break for half a minute or so. I suppose there are even multiple sets of muscles that work the lungs, so if one can't be used, others can temporarily take over. With the heart that's not an option, it just has to keep going. If you think about all this, does your heart feel tired? Mine does. I assume it's just psychological. They're built for this after all. I can't remember if I've read anything about Heart Longs, but whatever it is they do, it must be exhausting, but perhaps they're built for it too. If Longs even have muscles, are all of a Heart Long's muscles cardiac muscle? I assume percussigants lack the ability to become tired. The heart must work continuously, because its work is the work of staying alive. It isn't the only part of the body with this property, but it is one of the most visible and obvious. This links in to another of the themes of Heart, vitality. Both Heart and Nectar relate to life, but I think a large part of the difference is that Heart is life like warm-blooded animals live it, needing to constantly keep going because if it stops it will never start again, while Nectar relates more to the much more chill lifestyle of plants. Vitality provides the ability to keep going through hardship, but the continuous act of living is also what creates vitality. Joy, too, inspires action over rest. Most of the game's curses can be overcome with Heart. I guess you just need to persevere and outlast them. The principles generally have something a bit creepy about them, something that's just too much. I think this is what that is for Heart, even though it's one of the more overtly positive Principles. Possibly I'm overgeneralising from a few examples. I'm not sure I can actually describe all the other principles this way. Perhaps it's silly to put too much thought into understanding the principle of Heart, given there is no deep truth to be discovered here in real life, it's just a bundle of associations that the authors put together. That doesn't mean it's not something that can be understood though. The games are well-written, with thought put into fitting things together in a way that makes sense.

[froschli96]

Finally finished Pathologic 2 for the first time! And on intended difficulty too!

Death count: 2 Casualties: 7:

Anna Angel - got infected at the first opportunity and immediately died the next night even though i used the good antibiotics on her. RIP.

Big Vlad - got what he deserved. didn't have the time to try and save him from his punishment and honestly didn't really care to.

Young Vlad - got infected after his father's death, managed to survive one night even without me treating him but then succumbed the next night bc his infection level was too high even with treatment. Oh well….

Rubin - this fucked me up so bad. he just randomly fucking died on day 7. i felt so bad because i didn't go look for his hideout when i had the opportunity and thought he died bc i missed his questline. but apparently he always dies if you haven't made your first panacea at that point?? didn't even know that was possible. Was really demotivated by that but still decided to try and salvage what i could.

Alexander Saburov - survived two nights after getting infected but died in the third. shrug pretty resilient tho, props.

Aglaya - said i'd run away with her but didn't manage to get there in time… tbh i thought she meant the next day…. 🙈 but from what i've read it's actually impossible to save her? so… kind of glad i didn't waste time there… lol. also don't really know how i feel about her like immediately falling in love with Artemy and wanting to run away together… she felt like a bit of a downgrade from her P1 counterpart ngl… but maybe that's bc we only have one route and a certain meta layer that was a really interesting part of her character is basically absent aside from some comments from grief and the children…. also miss the smizing of her old model tbh.

Aspity - Kind of pissed about losing her at the last opportunity. She was infected on day 10 when i was running around trying to save all of my children. tried giving her antibiotics but that didn't help unfortunately. the worst part is i did have one more living blood but not enough time to brew another panacea bc i never upgraded my alembic. like? another toolkit? seriously?? i needed a whole side quest for the first one! (also never repaired the repair table so all of my tools were busted LMAO)

i think all in all i was mostly just REALLY lucky on all the dice rolls. always took care to give everyone a (+) tincture as prophylaxis and that worked out pretty well most of the time.

Notkin also got infected at the first opportunity (tho it seemed like that's unavoidable?) and survived two nights with just antibiotics. After that it felt like i was honestly tempting fate tho and so i healed him with a shmowder, and this kid had the GALL to tell me i shouldn't have used it on him?? like, i'm sorry i CARE ABOUT YOU and don't want you to DIE, kid. GOD.

But i had like 3 shmowders at that point so… even tho i fucked up that one hide and seek game where you probably also get a shmowder……….. i didn't realize you could trade with the children immediately after finding them and of course the first one i found was the teensy and then i just ran off to try and find the others, sobbing

i also didn't really engage with the whole children's cache thing, like, at all. and apparently that's also a pretty good source of shmowders……�� oh well.

in general i feel like there were a lot of mechanics i didn't really engage with as much as i would have liked bc I WAS JUST CONSTANTLY ON THE VERGE OF COLLAPSING AND/OR STARVING. only ever slept in 1 hour increments. tho i think i once slept two whole hours in one go. obscene.

i was also a total coward for most of the game and RAN from every single combat encounter lmao! i just got a little careless after rubin's death and tried my luck with a mugger in a burnt district…. and immediately died Lklasjdhfjklds. like, i knew about the death punishments and wanted to avoid it at all costs, that's why i was scared shitless

anyways, at that point i realized: if there ever comes a point where i'm unable to run from a combat encounter, i'm cooked. and i knew there was a notoriously difficult combat encounter late in the game. so i did something… maybe a little cheaty? but not really imo...

what i did is, i paused my playthrough and started a new game and then played through the first day and night and just went absolutely HAM on both the patrolmen on day one and the muggers in the night to practice combat. and turns out? it's actually kind of fun not being a coward all the time LMAO. I didn't even die so I feel like it wasn't too cheaty

at that point i felt like i was at least somewhat more prepared and went back to my actual playthrough and also started killing muggers in the night. AND THEN THE FUND REWARDS WERE SO MUCH BETTER HOLY SHIT??? actual fucking life saver. (unfortunately tho i ended up getting so dependent on the fund that i sacrificed a shmowder on clara's hospital quest to get the fund reward the next day…… felt kind of dirty ngl)

i actually managed not to die during the abattoir sequence tho! but there was a lot of sneaking around and punching and running away until they de-aggroed involved, ngl lasdjf idk why but the worms are so scary when they're running at you…. i think bc you can only see their eyes and so they seem to have this singleminded focus on bashing your head in?? lol

my second death instead was another really stupid one that i'm honestly actually not quite sure what exactly happened? i was fighting a mugger in the night but while i was waiting for my stamina to refill he suddenly starts running away and i just hear a slicing sound and i'm dead? so i'm wondering, bc the only other npc i could see beforehand was an army soldier - do the soldiers attack you when they see you fighting someone? even if it's a mugger? or maybe i was just a little too cocky and didn't scout the area enough. it just seemed strange that the mugger suddenly started running away bc he actually managed to land a hit on me beforehand, so it didn't really seem like he was running from ME? oh well, whatever, it's not like the consequences were EMOTIONALLY DEVASTATING (lara, i'm so sorry 😭)

another one of my favorite moments tho was on day… three? or four? don't remember, it's when you plan a meeting with lara, rubin and grief at midnight. i really didn't want to miss it but over the course of the day i totally ended up forgetting about it. but then some time after midnight i wanted to go to big vlad's house to sleep and on my way there i went to grief's hideout to save. and then i saw that he wasn't there. and it took me a few moments but then i went OH SHIT! and then ran in the other direction towards the steppe. and then there, in the distance, was a bonfire! and my friends!!! sobs and they weren't even angry at me for being late SOBS HARDER that was such a nice moment. and they even brought a sleeping bag, so i could instead sleep there instead of big vlad's house - under the stars! next to a nice crackling fire! with my friends!!!!!!! that made me so emotional for some reason…. probably bc it felt like it happened so organically with how i saw grief wasn't home and then remembered the meeting and then rushed there and stuff….

anyways, i can finally stop avoiding spoilers for P2! like, i didn't go in totally blind bc of P1 pre-knowledge and wasn't able to TOTALLY avoid spoilers so i knew about some plot points and the death punishments and stuff. but i am glad i could go in at least SOMEHWAT blind.

having played it to completion i do have some thoughts on the story and especially the treatment and depiction of the kin but i feel like i have to properly sort out my thoughts first…

[icewindandboringhorror]

One of the interesting bits of trying to resume working on the game after so long is looking back at my ancient Draft Placeholder versions of an image from 4 yrs ago trying to remember what the hell I meant back then, to hopefully interpret it into some more final (ish..) form of the same thing .. making slow progress lol

[fisheito]

Okay if we go by starfish logic for the dick drop Yakumo saga, the dropped dick could grow a FULL NEW YAKUMO from itself. You thought the Eidencest was getting out of hand, but you haven't seen ANYTHING yet!! Not only that but I think the amount of soup that would produce would solve world hunger in Klein, so that's an added bonus I guess.

you have brought up an EXTREMELY IMPORTANT POSSIBILITY THAT I HAVE NOT CONSIDERED. imagine being a lowly lifeform such as those who start as anuses or mouths, and grow from there. THEN imagine the NEW lifeform of starting as a dick. equally lowly, but considerably funnier because of its novelty. if a maid sees a dropped yakudick in the foyer , they will simply pick it up (with tongs, if feeling squeamish) and bring it to a safe place where it can regenerate .

[applealchemist]

welcome home madame herta !!!

so i have jade now also. all i wanted was the final natasha eidolon so i could get her to E6 but i wasn't expecting to get a 5* much less win the 50/50 (i was kind of hoping i'd lose to himeko gepard or welt so i could guarantee aglaea or robin) but you know what i needed another quantum character because all i had was the gambler girl from the luofu i forgor her name and i hear that jade should work well with the herta!

I HAVE A SEVERE GAMBKINH ADDICTIO BECAUSE I JUST KEEP WINNING!!!!

[kaurwreck]

It's actually really appropriate that bsd happened to me because I learned about the Sengoku period of Japan from Samurai Warriors. I was moé Oichi in the very first dream in which I exercised volitional control over the dream narrative and environment.

[chaotic-minds-think-alike]

I needed to draw them and I was also thinking about this specific interaction

They’re so stupid

[yeonban]

Wakes up in a cold sweat... Aha canonly knowing they live in a simulation. Nikolai canonly wanting freedom from a very similar sort of simulation. Them both canonly pointing it out and rebelling against the simulation in the most batshit insane ways possible, exasperating everyone involved. Like Aeon like Emanator dude what the hell is either of their problems 😭

[aurosoulart]

Hi, I have a friend that really wants to play with vr sculpting, do you recommend using the tilt five, quest 2, or quest 3.

Do you know of any plans to add support for any other headsets?

Also if you want an easier way to display art check these out (holographic displays) https://lookingglassfactory.com/

I’d go with a secondhand Quest 2 if it’s specifically VR sculpting your friend is interested in! though I think the price for a new Q2 dropped recently so either option is a more affordable entry point. 👍

and we wanna be on Apple Vision and maaaayybe also SteamVR so Figmin could run on any PCVR headset… but we’ll see haha

current supported hardware is the Quest line, Tilt Five, Magic Leaps, HoloLens, Vive XR Elite, aaand Android & Apple mobile devices. (if anyone wants to be part of the mobile beta hit me up 👀 we need more testers 👀👀👀)

and YES I know Looking Glass!! I’ve seen their displays and other similar 3d displays in person before and they’re wild.

[electric-plants]

very excited for aventurine’s rerun btw praying VERY hard i don’t fail his e1 50/50 again this time😪

[waspsinyouryard]

I plan to aebitrarily release the Gloopius story (the one I've been internally calling "Gloop Odyssey") on the r/HFY subreddit instead of anywhere reasonable, but I'm wondering now if I should somehow include that in the story itself

[ru5t]

🐇 aka run bunny run aka kie in the dustverse pls & thx (i can't remember if i ever sent you this meme before, if i have, no i haven't ;P)

If you drop a 🐇 in my inbox I’ll give you some starter ideas for how your muse might fit into the Dustverse!

oooooo okay okay okay so

there is. theoretically a verse i have waved vaguely at from time to time that centers on the idea of "everything in the dustverse is the same except some people have powers" and i think that like. lore-blend(?) kind of place is where it would be the most fun to play here but also that is a concept i haven't really grounded the reality of so i don't know how it would work (though i guess with powers on both sides it just sort of raises the stakes overall? but it does feel like the kind of thing that would easily ...undo the unbalance that has to exist in the dustverse? if that makes sense??? i don't know). that said, whether powers or no powers-

reflecting her story as i understand it i would expect Kie to be from the upper middle city, or the lower center. her parents would have really encouraged her to be Better Living levels of perfect and beautiful, hoping that she could rise into the true center and do well for herself (im. deeply uncertain ice skating specifically exists in the city? but it could be some kind of performance art??? that i'd leave to you) and it would probably be well intentioned it's just that. well, it's center city. so even good intentions can only go poorly, really. either she has to go with it and become stuck in a system that takes from everyone in it (yes, even the privileged center city types) or she splits from that and goes for the desert and becomes wild. either way it means doing things she probably never wanted to do, or thought she'd be faced with.