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Rain world fandom

This has ruined me for months it genuinely drives me up a wall, I've been thinking about it for a while? If you can enlighten me please you are welcome to.

Why the hell does it rain in shaded shitadel?? It makes no sense, there's actual no reason for it to.

The cloud layer isn't below Pebbles, because it would be cloudy/rainy in his underhang and it's not. Plus we can see where the cloud layer actually is. It's higher up his wall.

He covers shaded and there is NO sun, there shouldn't be clouds either he's like a massive umbrella that doesn't work for some reason. Not only did those people have to deal with complete darkness, but he still rained on them and I have no idea why.

If you want to bring gameplay reasons I still don't get it. You could just bullshit something with the green storms perhaps to keep the cycles?

And imagine how cool would it be as foreshadowing. Why doesn't it rain? As you climb his leg you won't realize, but when you reach Pebbles' underhand and wall you understand. You were climbing him and he's a superctructure that covers the citadel.

It shouldn't rain there aaarhg

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everyone needs a creative outlet to stick a creative fork into

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how I feel being a lazy colour-er and using the excuse of it being a cool quirky art style

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I think if you can figure out what is causing Symptoms that the inside of your brain should go DING DING DING and then the Symptoms say Fuck, you got me! and leave

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throws a rock at you throws a rock at you throws a rock at you throws a rock at you thros a rock at you throws a rock at you tjrows a rock at yoh throws a rock at you. btw.

TSAC: ...!!

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I try my best to be courteous to my visitors, but you have exhausted my patience.

Leave. Immediately.

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$20 used to mean something

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conflux arrangement notes

Vanilla Pebbles

The Rot

LTTM

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no title

35 x 28 cm drypoint, edited slightly in ps

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ancient urban design analysis !!

we as a fandom got over ancient urban MUCH too fast. from a storytelling standpoint alone it's both devastating and breathtaking but as a visual artist it's by far one of the best regions in the game for me.

the first thing that came to mind when i was exploring it was the karma murals and the weird mechanical doorway/gate thing which are both reminiscent of five pebbles... we don't get to see him at all in the watcher but these rooms do an excellent job of bringing everything full circle (heh) and tying the dlc back into vanilla and downpour. it's a separate world and a separate experience but it's still the same game we know and love.

but MORE IMPORTANTLY. the backgrounds. a rain world region having a moving, animated background is pretty much... unheard of. i'm kind of a nerd so i have read a large part of the devlog and a small section of it was dedicated to talking about the way the perspectives would work in rain world, and the game being a sidescroller was ruled out pretty much from the beginning. it was also made very clear that the backgrounds would be static pieces. they do shift slightly when approaching the edges of the screen and there are plenty of smallish animations in lots of places (for example, the perpetual rain/snowfall in rivulet and saint respectively, or the sandstorm and the falling stars in outer rim) but as a general rule the backgrounds themselves don't have moving elements.

the room with these moving fans is already waayy out there for a rain world background. i don't know if it's animated frame-by-frame or just by spinning the fan elements in the programming (i know very little about coding so bear with me) but either way it's just so... bizarre?? which is really fitting for the themes of rain world and the way it's experienced: everything we've seen until ancient urban is a world in stasis, a world whose mechanical components have stopped moving. the ancients are gone and their technology is too, but here we see what it would be like before all that happened. the machinery is still functioning and it gives the impression of somewhere that is living and breathing instead of what is effectively a dead world which we are used to. the contrast is striking too because there's so little moving in the foreground; normally there's flowing water or creatures wandering around and nothing going on behind them but here we have a world before collapse, something that's still running and functioning, but you're all alone. it brings a different kind of melancholy than vanilla or downpour and even most of the regions in the watcher.

but was that it? no it was not. no they went even crazier.

holy fuck. i cried like ten times in ancient urban alone but i think this was the first room where i couldn't keep it together. the graphic design and color/lighting choice is jaw dropping enough on its own, but the fact that they're not only moving but walking by. it might not be something that everybody notices when they're playing but it's so incredible in rain world for something entirely in the background to be moving and animated like this. the strangest part about it is that they're not even creatures. the body part of guardians is considered a background element while still moving around but it's part of the creature. this is a fully animated background with proper lighting and everything and it's absolutely, positively gorgeous.

the symbolism too is something that caught my eye. similar to the fans, you're in front, alone, and all the movement and life is behind you. with the fans it doesn't mean quite as much because it's more a limitation of the 2 dimensional style than anything but here it shows just how far away you are from all of this. you can't reach the warmth behind the glass, and all you can do is move forward and keep going. it reflects watcher's story and rain world as a whole, symbolizing just how unforgiving and cold it is to be lost in a world like that. spinning top gives watcher some of that warmth and it's very present in the ending cutscene and menu selection artwork, but it can't escape that sense of sadness and loneliness. you can never go home again, indeed.

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i didn't have anything to take my anger out on so i just sat down and played a shooter for nine hours.

it didn't help.

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*yeets my scug at thee*

The Listener got a ref sheet!

Don't mind the pile upon pile of notes, they're more for me to remember than anything else- I'm still figuring its lore out. But in case anyone is interested and having troubles reading my handwriting:

Skittish and speedy, hard to catch

Smarter than it gives on - prefers to stay on all 4 most of the time, but is not any less intelligent than average slugcat

Very quiet, light on its feet

High endurance, bursts of high energy - at the cost of longer, deeper hibernation periods

It's near-sighted, sees very blurry but is not blind

The ears:

two pairs of ears, all move fully independently in all directions

biological "hearing aids" for ear apparatus; impeccable hearing, echolocation, sound-source-tracking, "selective hearing" to prevent hearing loss ("closes" or "turns off" the ears in case of excessive noise), processes multiple sound sources and layers simultanously with little to no quality loss

Capable of reading pearl-stored data (don't ask me how lol)

Equipped with what is essentially an equivalent of sound-editing software in the brain

It is capable of decrypting pearl-stored data as well

Fun fact: it's probably a weird, far descendant of a spying purposed organism meant to keep TS in check

It also got an icon for Artfight! ^^) The pixel slugcat icon in the corner is very rushed though, I'll make a proper one some other time...

Reminder that this baby has been designed by @nebulius

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I typically do not post emotes for my emote server (it aint much yet, but I want to comm more stuff!), but this time it more... special.

If you know - you know 😉

Emote by Catle on Twitter

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another old fave (2023/11)

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cutely emits a single ping

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