#Paper games please

[pantherkitten]

Sorry not sorry.

I don't make the rules

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

chinese rock–paper–scissors (popular in fujian, known as 舞拳wuquan and are matched with music) by 阿轩

for anyone interested:

[gorofeet]

Video game character: I am a transgender woman.

Japanese fans: woah awesome

Guy on twitter who has never been to Japan nor spoken to any kind of Japanese local or speaker: I’m just SAYING there ARENT any transgender people in Japan. Its a WESTERN IDEOLOGY. theres no such thing as TRANS PEOPLE in JAPAN!! This must be a result of WOKE WESTERN LOCALIZATION!!!

[onfjre]

TUMBLR PHANNIES

hey everyone!! ive created a survey to compare/contrast phandom experiences by platform....and i really want to hear from you!

its abt a 5-15 min time commitment depending on your answers, but your feedback is invaluable and it's completely anonymous!! (i hope it doesn't need saying but this survey is run without platform bias and the last thing i want to do is pit people against each other! i just need a bigger sample size!)

thank you <3

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Detectives at the Disco (Elysium)

[monochrome-cropcrown]

Me trying not to lose my shits whenever some coomer calls "That's Not My Neighbor" and "Lil' Guardsman" a "Papers Please" copy or worse..

Like- Just because it has the same gameplay doesn't really mean that people can't enjoy it.

Not to mention Papers Please's hype is nearly a decade ago. Let others enjoy some other things without being ridiculed

[argetcross]

The Homeric Question feat. Prince Zagreus

For further reading, please check out Martin West's "The Homeric Question Today".

Additional caveats and comic text after the cut:

Additional Caveats:

Writing in Greece existed during the Bronze Age in the form of Linear B (and other systems such as Linear A on Minoan Crete), but after the subsequent collapse of Bronze Age civilization, the system disappeared from Greece.

The first mention of Homer as the author of both poems comes from comes from 520 BCE, a century or more after the poems were created. Prior to this, there was much debate even in ancient times as to the poems' origins, some citing different authors, others saying the creators were anonymous.

Comic Text:

Title: Greek History 101 with Prince Zagreus

Subtitle: The Homeric Question

Written and drawn by Argetcross. Colors by Spleen.

[Panel 1]

NARRATION: Although he might not look it, the Prince is quite the avid reader.

NARRATION: Stuck in the Underworld, it's the only way he learns about the heroes of old. He particularly likes the Iliad and the Odyssey.

TEXT AROUND ACHILLES: The mistakes of my youth.... Embarrassing (<- A Hero of Old)

[Panel 2]

ZAGREUS: To create such a work, Homer must be a poet to rival Orpheus!

[Panel 3]

HERMES: Actually did you know Homer might have never existed?

ZAGREUS: Huh?

[Panel 4]

NARRATION (HERMES): Before the Phoenician alphabet came to Greece (~8th century BC), all the tales were sung by oral poets! They were the ones passing the story down.

NARRATION (HERMES): When the Iliad and Odyssey were written down, those writers certainly used the work of the poets before them. Scholars even believe the two epics were written at different times by different people!

HERMES: So you see, it really was the work of generations that made these poems. (Also there is no record of a man named Homer.)

[Panel 5]

ZAGREUS: You're a sly guy, putting your name on so many people's work...

(IN-GAME) NARRATOR: Stop looking at me like that!

[nintendette]

[jaskierx]

hey sorry your boyfriend’s name was pulled in the october 1982 labor lottery. yeah he’s been assigned to the grestin border checkpoint. we’ll provide a class 8 dwelling in east grestin. glory to arstotzka

[lxikoniko]

I already loved Bandits before...

But NINTENDO MADE THEM BETTER???? HELLO EXPRESSIONS??

[videogamepolls]

Requested by @upwardsonwards

[vonlipvig]

GLORY TO ARSTOTZKA!

[swanno-arts]

im quoting from a critical theory final im writing but its really neat how return of the obra dinn is not a game about you.

there is no self in the game. you dont control anything, you were not part of the obra dinn's tragedy and nothing you do in-game can change their fates - or anything for that matter. they will remain dead, the obra dinn will disappear with the storm, you have no power to change the story or the game. your self do not matter, even if you are represented by the eyes of the inspector.

what mattered are the other, the memories, the stories of adventure and tragedy of those aboard the obra dinn, how they relate to other characters in their struggle or in their demise. this game is not about you, it is about them.

but its a cycle of remember and re-member. you feel a disconnect to these strangers' stories and experiences but you are thrown into their boots. you were not part of the obra dinn, but you feel pity, anger, sadness, disgust and fear for their fates, do you not?

and i think that's really neat. also im very drained </3

[wybienova]

seeing mimi constantly change outfits gave me an idea: the girls go shopping

(i haven’t gone past chapter 4 yet, please no spoilers in the tags!)

[amphorographia]

Replaying Papers, Please and remembering why I fell in love with it in the first place

[emry-stars-art]

(So @/sokani-aftg had a post about Neil and different hair that tumblr won't let me find and also it's no longer their url so I'm struggling to track it down)

Bottom two are my random additions 😅