#and distract me from this mess

[no1chigdaenjoyer]

Sorry, gonna have a little rant here.

I finally got my sister to play Infinity Nikki.

I've spent probably hundreds of hours playing the game and I just couldn't wait until she tried it too - the new update coming to Steam as well as introducing co-op was the perfect opportunity. I wanted her to experience the same magic as I did, I wanted her to get invested in the story, I wanted her to finally understand my insane ramblings about that world and my favourite characters. And to my surprise, she decided to check it out for my sake!

So I got to experience the new intro to Infinity Nikki with a new player. Ooh boy.

I don't wanna get into too much detail about what the changes were and how it differed from the version we got as older players because it can be easily found on YouTube. But I just want to say how it made me feel.

I'm not going to lie. I felt embarrassed.

The new player is just thrown into some big event, nothing's properly explained, and they spend most of the intro just yapping and yapping and yapping, lore drop after lore drop after lore drop. Momo's introduction was horrible and out of place, Ena was just another person that got yapped about by the Seer and appeared for a bit, there was no reason for the new player to care about anything... And after we were FINALLY DONE with Seer and Ena, we got teleported in front of the Stylist Guild to meet Dada. It was almost funny how within even more lore drop, she mentioned Faewish Sprites - "oh you must have seen them flying around". Yes, we saw them IN THE OLD INTRO. The new players don't even know what you're talking about!

Everything was just so long and overwhelming even for someone like me who already knew all of this stuff. My sister commented on the excessive lore drop and admitted that the tutorial made her very impatient. And I just felt embarrassed. Like, hey this is a game that I love and spent countless hours in! I promise it gets good! I swear the tutorial made sense at some point! We spent so much time with the intro that she didn't get further in the story than meeting Giovanni, and she didn't have time to explore anything that day.

It's not like the old intro was perfect, it's not like they didn't bombard you with lore and tutorials, but it was nowhere near what we have now!

I'm more of a story/character focused fan so I didn't really care that much about lots of complaints people made about this game before. Because at the end of the day I had the lore, I had the story, I had the characters, I had Chigda, and that was most of where I derived my enjoyment from! But this update is probably the first time the game made me upset that much. Which is ironic, because I made this blog because I was too excited for it. How could I know that we would get a retcon? That something I cared about a lot would lose its integrity?

It's such a shame that it came to this. The game was my comfort when I was going through difficult moments in my life. I didn't even mind supporting IN financially because I was excited about the future the game had for us. From now on I'll probably stay f2p until Infold actually changes some of their scummy behavior (the dyeing system is just. too blatantly predatory to ignore it) and listens to our concerns. Or until playing the game makes me feel the same excitement as I felt before.

So now what? I guess I'm just going to do my thing. Even though the direction Infinity Nikki goes to is disappointing for me, I still don't want to just let it go completely. At the end of the day, the characters I fell in love with are still very inspiring to me, I want to do so much stuff and I want continue engaging with what makes me happy!

I don't know how to end this, uhh, I hope whoever read all this has a nice day ^^

[intertexts]

woe........ emo be upon ye.....

[helsensm]

why is everyone so mean to Kung Lao wth

shout-out to @d3rpydoods for showing me how to start making these things <3

[theoryandahalf]

Logging onto YT Twitter over the last 48 hours has been wild.

Me watching the drama unfold and waiting for Rosanna Pansino to finish them off:

[n0bluev]

Another, zzz

[milkamel]

Hiii guysss I'm alive and well, sorry for not posting as much- irl stuff has been torturing me as well as the consequences of my actions (or rather lack of thereof) so I'm sticking to lurking on the internet for now,, Don't worry I see the asks, I don't ignore them (even the ones that were sent days ago- I see all, some of them just require a long answer which I can't give at the moment- like the AU ones) I'll reply once I finally have some freedom cause eughfh too much stress I can't even find time to draw things- Anyway thank you all for understanding once I deal with what I need I'll return to the usual chaotic schedule! (might still post something during this that doesn't require a lot of energy- I hope it won't take more than a week lol) Take care until then!!

[imagionationstation]

look! A distraction!

Your distraction failed. I am now aware of your presence.

[mostlyghostly42]

my face when the soc is pens

Silly little drawing of the enamoring being @socpens

also an excuse to get funky with typography and accidentally make an album cover looking thing

[charismabee]

about the livestream ama

Jonny Sims saying the Contrarian and the Skeptic were a buddy cop duo was so based and real of him

(And that the Opportunist thinks everyone loves him but they don't)

but what interested me most was him saying the Hunted and Cold would be friends. I've never really thought about that pairing before but it does work. The Hunted's main thing being keeping the body alive could help balance out the Cold's general blasé nature when it comes to death, while being rational enough (focussing on his senses and what he knows is real) for the Cold to actually take him seriously. While the Cold being able to push the Hunted to act somewhat like the Stubborn, but slightly less strongly. He's confident that they can get the job done, and with the Hunted keeping them alive they could get a lot done without either really getting sick of the other. Just two reliable guys.

A little off topic but I think they'd work pretty well as a trio with Paranoid too, given a little time for Paranoid to get used to it. Cold's confidence plus Hunted's survival instinct could give him something reliable to work with, and I think he could help him by pointing out when they're going to far in either direction and going to get themselves hurt, as both can be rather single minded (on different things, mind you, but definitelythings that could leave them with blind spots) while Paranoid thinks of every possibility and could probably bring up flaws in any given plan that the others wouldn't notice, and at least Hunted would probably take it into consideration if its going to get them hurt or killed. Like a scared little peer reviewer of any plans the other two would execute

[lexicals]

Finally got around to drawing my new guys. Lyra is a scamp who's become aware of the narrative laws of the universe and is mostly using it to be annoying, Dougherty was supposed to be an unnamed background goon until she started messing with him and inadvertently pushed him towards having a fully realised personality. He's finding this existentially horrifying and she's mostly just curious how this is gonna play out lol

[sleepyyghostt]

flipping thru pages of a pathology textbook like its a shopping catalogue trying to pick out something nice for the fictional character

[pagesofkenna]

what if i just completely threw out 60% of the existing plot concept for the novel i'm already writing the second draft of

[teeayohess]

i wonder what this could possibly be for.... 🤡

(thank you again @letomills for editing the mesh for me! you're awesome 🖤)

[gio-cosmo]

No way. No actual fucking way

[lonely-night]

last time I was this distraught over an on-going TV show was ouat/sq.... at least this time the cast is down with the ship like us and the creators actually care about the fans (jac apologised???) AND WE GOT THE KISS OF THE CENTURIES

[vilablut]

Wanted to test smth