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The good stuff...

I've started watching Gundam

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pretty :o

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The classic Soulsborne formula. Should an enemy rush forward to attack you, you may defend yourself with the tasty hog's roll. But look out, should the enemy maintain their assault then your boys meter will deplete and you will no longer be able to utilise the hog's roll.

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Rereading a few chapters of Ozzie the Vampire.

It's a good webcomic! Big recommend! Slow update schedule but a solid read.

It's one of those urban fantasys. Human world and demon world. Demons are crossing over. A small band of human protagonists have to get together and fight them. Right?

It makes me so sad though because all the demons are so cute. I especially love the current trio of demons who have survived more than a chapter, Malphas, Dantalion, and Alastor. Most the demons show up and promptly get their butt kicked but these ones get into multi-chapter spanning shenanigans.

And they're so cute. One of them's a little punk boy. One of them's a bondage lady. One of them is an SCP. They're all so lovely.

Why do none of the humans ever try to befriend the demons? Besides the fact the demons are killing them. Why not? If I got attacked by evil demons from hell and the evil demons from hell had sick eyeliner, well I would tell the demons that I love their sick eyeliner!

It kind of reminds me of Devil May Cry, which has a similar premise. But all the demons in DMC are ugly and all have one-note personalities. DMC3 gave each of the bosses their own motivations and behaviourisms at least, but each other DMC just makes all the demons interchangeable and makes them all look like mean-looking big beasties and skeletons.

The Ozzie demons have fashion. And they're chatty and talkative. And I can't help but appreciate them.

Maybe it's better for a work like this to make the demons generic, so the audience doesn't get attached, so you can just kill off hoards of them like it's nothing?

I like the demons with personality. I think they're nice.

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Person wearing only a hat will hurt their feet if they try going outside any distance without shoes or socks and aren't used to walking outdoors barefoot. That is a kind of vulnerability that the hatless shoed person is not afflicted with.

Let's settle something.

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Guilty Gear Strive. I'm trying not to be a hater. I swear. But did you just introduce your cyberpunk crossover character by having her say "uhhh hack an organic person with no cybernetics, yeah, that happened"??

Literally would have been better if they just added Goku.

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If Char Aznable were in a furry setting then he would change animal species each time he changes alias.

Not with a furry HRT and not with a disguise. It's just totally unexplained how it's happening. If it's "happening" diegetically.

In Char's Counterattack, he's a big strong lion. He gives a speech about spacenoid independence. He walks away and puts on his sunglasses while muttering about Amuro and suddenly he's a puppy.

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I think I've gotten to the use of a real world suicide and I think it's fine. It's no more or less exploitative than Serial Experiments Lain. I am inclined just a little bit more to believe that YIIK was just the target of outrage mob and callout posts.

Playing YIIK Postmodern RPG.

I remember a lot of people saying this game sucks. I remember some criticism being plainly without merit. And some criticism sounded to me at the time more reasonable.

I vaguely recall something about a disrespectful use of a real world suicide? That did then and does now sound pretty bad. But one offensive element isn't enough I think to discredit a whole game. I want to know about the rest of it!

One of the criticisms without merit that I remember was that a lot of people gave this game grief because I think one of the developers said that if games are art and not just culturally worthless children's toys then they must have greater scope than just being fun.

A lot of people thought that was self-evidently absurd. (As games are meant to be fun.) I feel that it is just self-evidently true. There is no real room for debate here. Either games have no deeper value whatsoever and it's fine for them to just be cheap distractions, or video games are socially important cultural objects and so must offer cultural value beyond simply being an instant gratification stress reliever machine. That's just obviously true.

It has a very trendy low poly 3D art style. This game came out in 2019. So that is somewhat ahead of the curve on the current wave of PSX retro nostalgia.

I am about an hour in? In this hour, we have had a girl play character exploring a nightmarish purgatory. A short sequence where we got to decide if we are a boy or a girl. (But in that modern video games sort of way where it doesn't say that the choice is between a boy and a girl, it just says that it's a choice between two things and one of them is obviously the boy one and the other is obviously the girl one.) And then we have had a boy player character coming home from university and having sex drugs (video game combat) with a mature more experienced woman.

The boy player character is indeed a whiny misogynist. We shall see if the game is doing something interesting with that or not as we play further!

And I do admit, that sometimes I get in my queer little bubble. Sometimes the socially normative misogyny of our society blindsides me with just how surprising it is for me to remember that it is a real belief system and that it is actually the dominant one currently.

So here's the scene, I'm playing as this boy character, come home from university, running around his home town, right? I go into his house, I go into his mother's bedroom, I look at his mother's chest of drawers. The boy remarks that that's where his mother's underwear would be. And then says "ew gross".

And just, is it normal for boys to think their mother's underwear is gross? I guess I wouldn't really know because I wasn't a boy. But when I was younger, I never thought that either my mother or father's underwear was gross. It was just clothes. Never had any deeper significance to me.

Do men really get this pent up about underwear?

It seems also to me be an age thing. Like, surely, if boys were repelled by their mothers' underwear, it would be little boys and they would eventually grow out of it?

Well, I suppose if you leave little boys to neurotic patriarchal masculinity then they naturally grow up to be men who never grew out of it! I suppose that at least makes sense.

Video games.

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Masks truly are a classic of clown. I should make a clown oc who wears a mask.

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ohhh! There she goes! :o

The buckle around the neck gives me anxiety. lol

I like the way the mesh deform of the shoulders when she stretches her arms up makes it look like her back muscles are flexing. That's cool!

Its Gilly Twistknee!

shes the current ttrpg character im playing and its been alot of fun playing her

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Really can't stand the way they do King Dedede in 3D. I'm so tempted to try making one myself. I feel so sure that it can be done. It might not be easy, but surely it can be done.

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Fecto Elfilis...

Drew her hands wrong. Damn. Drew them too much like normal hands. Her actual hands are way gnarlier. Each one of her fingers is the same width and length as her whole feet. Drew the hands too normal.

Also, experimented with perspective line weight. I felt the perspective line weight came out really well at first, but then I added colour and I feel the linework draws the eye less when the colour is also there? ablooo I should have really exaggerated the lines and made the widest lines much wider. Like twice or three times as wide maybe.

Fecto Elfilis will forgive me. She is my friend.

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Just saw someone drawing fanart of Tenna where they put eyebrows on his television screen face to do certain kinds of facial expressions.

You have to put the eyebrows higher up. Higher than that. The eyebrows don't go on the tele screen.

Tenna's antennae. His antennae are his eyes. He's a tele with a nose and a mouth on the screen, and two big globby balls up top on antennae.

If you wanna give him eyebrows then you got to put those things on his balls. Because those things are what his eyes are.