#I got shooter

[notaplaceofhonour]

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[jeeaark]

I’ve been watching devora wilde’s (laezel voice actor) playthrough of bg3 and she just got to the part where shart defies shar, and after shart’s like “shar will punish me” dev immediately goes “don’t worry babe we’ll kill her. she doesn’t stand a chance” … I immediately thought of grey gold doing the same

HELL

YEAH

[umblrspectrum]

I LOVE EARTHMOVERS!!!!!

[wenddysburger]

HEARD WE GOT A LITTLE BIRTHDAY BOY HERE

[dogtoling]

Hello Splatoon Artist. Do you despise drawing weapons? Do you despise drawing backgrounds? Does it happen that every time you try, you quickly come to find out that there are ZERO references of what exactly you need?

Well do I have the blog for you! I’ve just started a Splatoon reference archive for mostly the kind of references you always end up needing, and NEVER FIND because they don’t exist on the net. Right now, it’s planned to be mostly weapon close-ups and position references, as well as stage and stage backdrops and background objects!

https://splatreference.tumblr.com/

I recommend bookmarking this blog instead of following (of course you are free to follow, but the content bursts will spam your dashboard). Ideas, suggestions and submissions are also welcome through the ask box!

[kitty4president]

me when im going to ultrakill you or something i dunno 🗡👼✨

[torturedpoetdean]

would say insane choice to have abby say "he stopped waiting for me a long time ago" then immediately cut to buck and eddie coparenting but its not insane it was deliberate this is right before s4 THEEE canon buddie season fox you will burn for what you took from us

[cherry-bomb1985]

I feel like The Father and Hell both understand and experience love in all the worst ways.

The Father sought to create a life form that would follow and love him unconditionally. It wasn't enough that he had a great cosmic kingdom of angels who are unquestioningly loyal, no, he needed something that knew suffering and mortality and the threat of oblivion, and would still find love at the end; love for him above all else. But after numerous implied failures at that, in his desperation, he instead created the threat of eternal damnation to force them to love him in order avert that fate. Lucifer's words must have been like a splash of cold water, but by the time he realized sheer magnitude of suffering he had unintentionally set into motion, it was too late. He could not destroy Hell; he could not stop the cycle of violence.

That guilt drove him to seek a death that, from the looks of it, eluded him in spite of the hollowness consuming him. And now he is... somewhere, helpless to stop his experiments from consuming one another and themselves in a glorious show of blood and violence.

And then there's Hell itself, who seems to recognize love as an act of violence and cruelty. It is something that derives joy only from the suffering of other living creatures. God gave it so many toys to hurt and break and reform, and Mankind gave it new ones. Why would it understand love as anything but? It gave Minos a facsimile of the son he is most ashamed of, and delighted when he cast it, once more, into a labyrinth. Gabriel flattened all the souls within it's confines beneath his heel and gave those that did bend false hopes.

Now there's V1, tearing its way through the remaining layers and creating a spectacle of violence like nothing Hell has ever witnessed before. How could it not love them all for all the entertainment they've provided?

But deep within its recesses, hidden away from the eyes of Heaven, there was a Gutterman. A machine built for war, who eventually came to love that which it gave it life at the cost of their own. Enough to give the human welded within their coffin the mercy that both Heaven and Hell had denied them; enough to write a single love letter to them, even knowing that it would never be read by its intended recipient.

So, as things turn out, you /can/ teach a machine to love. And they will understand and experience it more sincerely than God or Hell ever could.

[neurotoxinislife]

Some Bive sketches

[lunargirlthing]

Yeah nah, Fujimoto better have a good reason for going that far cause you aren't gonna sit here and tell me "no it definitely didn't have to just be them making out until Asa snapped back in control, Yoru sexually assaulting Denji and then having him cum right when Asa takes back control is much better"

[weepylucifer]

Oh yeah i just remembered what i meant to post. Okay so i think people who perceive the student commies as extremely gatekeepy and stuck up just. may not ever have seen what happens when you go into the commie quest with a Harry who has low int and/or hasn't read that many books like...

if Harry has only read Hjelmdallermann, Steban and Ulixes meet him at that level and discuss Hjelmdallermann. If Harry has only read the alphabet book for little kids, they discuss the alphabet. There's an option for Harry to say "I may not have read many books, but I tell a good story" and then just talk about the case or random shit he got up to during the last three days, and not only will the students be polite about it and tell Harry that he brings an interesting new perspective to the group, they'll be visibly enraptured by his stories. They'll initially say that they do entrance exams and things like that, but they immediately stop insisting on it and, if the circumstances align, offer an option to join the group by simply punching Steban in the face. They're even very patient with "are women bourgeois".

I went into the meeting also thinking "Wow, these guys think i'm not worth their time unless i've read all these books" but once i go over it again, there's not really any hard evidence that they think that. They do brag a lot about how well-read they are and broadly assume that everyone present knows what they're talking about when they're quoting theory, but the whole "they're a petit-bourg intellectual class who think they're too good to interact with actual working people" interpretation seems overly harsh (especially since they have tried to recruit actual working people).

On the Doylist level, the encounter is written that way so that everyone, regardless of what build their Harry is, can finish the commie quest in a satisfying way. But DE is a well-written game where gameplay mechanics are justified with plot and characterization, so the reason why every build of Harry can succeed at the commie quest is because Steban is written as a person who, while certainly being all kinds of a dork, seeks dialogue with you no matter what you hit him with (figuratively as well as literally)

[flakytartart]

FINALLY....the Adachi bible

[runawaymarbles]

My job is fun because half the year it's like, this is amazing, I can't believe I'm getting paid to do this little. And the other half of the year is like, what if I quit and went to work 60 hours a week doing repetitive tasks that were the same every day.

[itsflorasdiary]

wait in my head jay’s magic is like. green. like it’s wispy in movement and a green. i cannot remember if that’s actually how jays magic/magic in general presents itself. because i got an idea and it deals with that

[thefirstknife]

Hi Bel,

I keep seeing comments about people complaining about the quality of destiny’s writing and story in the last few weeks. I haven’t really engaged with destiny since season of defiance, what’s currently gotten everyone so riled up? I thought that people were enjoying Season of the Deep/Witch in terms of narrative, why is Season of the Wish causing people to deride the destiny writing staff again?

I don't know!

Deep and Witch have been absolute bangers in every aspect to me. I've been enjoying all interactions and lore tabs we've received. A lot of them are stuff that we've never had before, a lot of reunions and closures, a lot of development and interactions between characters who you wouldn't really think would have much in common.

Sloane's return and healing from what she's been through has been fantastic, Drifter opening up with her to help her because he also got help from others was fantastic, Sloane reuniting with Aisha and Shayura brought me to tears (Shayura's descent into madness was triggered by immense trauma of Sloane staying on Titan and Titan disappearing), everything with Sloane and Zavala...

Witch was just incredible in every single way; the focus on Eris, the amount of Eris and Ikora content!!!!! Everything about Xivu and Savathun and their interactions together!! Eris finally fulfilling her goal she promised Savathun YEARS ago, getting that closure.

Wish so far has been equally great to me. All the new stuff about Ahamkara is amazing, finally giving us proof for long-standing speculation about Ahamkara and how they aren't universally evil creatures and expanding on them as a species. I love all interactions we've had so far; finally we have Petra back, Mara's singleminded focus on figuring out how to defeat the Witness and her continuous work to improve as a person, ALL SJUR MENTIONS!!!!! I won't talk about the "leak" because we have no context for it so I will wait for the full story to be revealed before I can pass judgment; something that I think should be a lesson to learn from this entire year. Maybe wait for the story to finish before judging the story.

Literally everything this past year that involves Osiris, but especially this season now that he's back in his element with the Vex. And of course every little detail we get of him and Saint. Osiris honestly shaped this year for me with everything that he's done to uncover the biggest mysteries. I think a big reason is that a lot of people just don't like Osiris, which I consider a massive skill issue.

Other than that, I don't know what are the issues people have besides just not being interested in any of these storylines and attributing it to a nebulous "bad writing" claim. I also genuinely believe that way too many people get wrapped up too much in fandom, imagine storylines they want to see and then get disappointed when the actual story doesn't go there. Almost like people forget that this isn't their story and these aren't their characters. A lot of it is also fandom completely warping characters into not what they actually are and then feeling like the canon story is the one that's wrong.

Whatever is the reason, I guess everyone is entitled to their perspective of the story and everyone is free to explore the story in different ways through fanfics and AUs and whatever. I do that too!

But I would definitely ask people to be normal with how they engage in criticism, especially in the current state of affairs. Writers are developers; they experience a ton of harassment and negativity from the community and also from inside the company. And they are online: they can see what we're saying. It's been documented that community commentary has been used to harass writers:

Imprint this into your brain and never forget what these people had to go through. Let's not forget also the way people treated Seth Dickinson on social media when he was active with Destiny fans. "Fans" were actively arguing with him about his own work (telling him that HE is wrong) and were utterly disgusting towards him when he tried explaining what he wrote. His works are now hailed as the best writing in Destiny and people want him back. If I were him, I wouldn't want to come back ngl, not with how he was treated and not with how fans are still treating writers (and hey, Seth wrote LF Collector's Edition! So he was back, technically, this year!). Let's not forget that a lot of writers are members of various marginalised groups. And I'd definitely not want to go back with zero support from leadership.

Which is also an important aspect for all developers, including writers: sometimes they have orders they may not like, but can't argue against. They do the best they can with what they're given, the time they have and directions they receive. And with that in mind, I am enjoying everything we've gotten this year, obviously with some specific complaints about things I didn't particularly enjoy (like the universally mid reception of Defiance; I've spoken about my gripes with it before, a big one being the shafting of Suraya who should've at least been mentioned in a lore tab).

I can tell that there is passion in their work, even if maybe they would prefer to do more with it, but can't. Maybe even if they want to take different routes, but can't. But from what we got, I can feel that they care about this world and these characters. I can tell that someone lovingly wrote about Sloane and her friendships with two grieving women. I can tell that they deeply cared about Sloane's friendship with Zavala and that they loved showing us Saint and Drifter caring about a fellow trauma survivor.

I can tell that the writers are immensely careful and loving towards Eris; everything she went through was crafted with love and passion from both writers and her VA. Eris' story is such a fundamental aspect of Destiny and I can tell that this was important to the writing team and that they gave her everything they could to do justice to her character and her arc and her healing and her release from the cycle she was trapped in for so long.

I can tell that there are writers who care a lot about Osiris and Saint and their relationship. I can tell that someone cared a lot about expanding on Ahamkara and giving them more personalities. I can tell that someone cared DEEPLY about Sjur and Mara and that her repeated mentions are the passionate work of writers who want us to remember her.

I could go on. And I know that not everyone sees it this way, which is fine; we all have different ways of perceiving stories. I enjoy discussing things we in the fandom disagree on and I enjoy hearing different perspectives! Unfortunately, this has recently become rarer and rarer. And for the love of god, please try and treat writers with some respect, especially now, especially those who are still working and doing their best with the shitty situation they're in. None of the cries of "poor devs" ring true to me unless the same is given to writers, instead of treating them like punching bags.

[texasbama]

That Beyoncé virgo shit….