#autumn says things

[autumnbrambleagain]

It's like, you go up to Baldur's Gate 3 and you're like, hey, you're a fantasy game. Can I play as something weird? Like maybe a centaur? That's a fantasy race, right?

And Baldur's Gate 3 says, uhm, no. You can play as a human. If you really must be different you can play as a dragonborn.

And it's like. oh, neat! That's like, a dragon?

And they're like, well, it looks more like some kind of fish... maybe like, you know those shrink-wrapped dinosaurs from the earlier days of paleontology?

And it's like... oh. Okay. What about modded races? Did someone mod in a centaur?

And BG3 is like, buddy. Buddy. Do you know how hard that would be for fans to animate? We don't even have a modding toolkit for you to use. Of course not. You can't play as a centaur. You play as a human.

And it's like... no, sure, of course, I'm sorry for bothering you.

You go to Caves of Qud and ask if you can play as a centaur.

CoQ says oh, sure, one of the first npcs you run into is a taur! The extra legs let you outspeed enemies and also give you a carry weight bonus! But what's that over there is that your fursona

and i'm like, oh, what, uhh

and CoQ is like, yeah! What is that, two-headed, four-armed foxthing? Why don't you play as that instead?

and i'm like, I'm sorry, what?

and CoQ is like, yeah, having two heads lets you wear two kinds of helmets for different bonuses, and also lets you use mental abilities quicker AND helps you shake off mental effects faster! the extra arms lets you stack up a whole bunch of weapons at once, it's a really powerful base to build your character around!

And I'm like... well... what about the visual representation of it?

and CoQ goes, we use sprites with 2 colors and negative space, so you don't need to relearn 3D modeling and animation to have your guy represented in the game with the same fidelity as everything else that already exists in it! no problem!

and like... of course, the Thing You Can Play As isn't the only factor that makes a game good! but after experiencing this, it's so hard to enjoy games like BG3. Like yeah the story and its writing and your ability to affect it are unmatched in BG3 it especially makes Bethesda look like hot steaming garbage!

but i have to either play as a human or a shrink wrapped fish dinosaur from 60s paleontology to do it? and every game makes me just play as a human. the most fantastical games with the craziest settings all mostly moderate themselves to "medieval europe... with a little bit of weirdness"

meanwhile in CoQ turning a locked door sapient, recruiting it, and giving it a chaingun so i have a literal metal door wielding a chaingun is a perfectly viable answer to getting through a locked door

anyway that's why i think the developers of CoQ should be given the budget of BG3 tyvmia

[autumnbramblerebloggedit]

colonialism in america has gone both ways, inwards and outwards, where we have a lot of these cultural holidays in our Deal because the original immigrants had them and maintained ideas of them, and then they become later-generation immigrants' attempts to maintain a hold on their former culture, but the crushing wheel of colonization means you don't just erode cultures from afar you bleach them from within

we are scatter-part beasts, we have had our memories eaten but we desperately desire to cling to a past that was taken from us by the same machine that has taken the past of others

other holidays were invented, and their often-commercial origins immediately lost to the same ravenous maw. the need for holidays is always there, but a stomach that knows no satiation must always feed on culture

void-speckled and machine processed, we know there are holes here, and we do not know what they were originally filled with, and so we fill them with holidays cast in the half-remembered fading pond-ripple-reflection of What Once Was, and the empty gaps become beer and hamburgers

“Why do Americans celebrate St. Patrick’s Day like that?” “Why do Americans celebrate Cinco de Mayo like that, we don’t even celebrate it in Mexico?” IT IS AN EXCUSE TO GET DRUNK AND EAT FOOD. Every popular American holiday is an excuse to get drunk and eat food. Labor Day. Veterans Day. Memorial Day. Halloween. Valentines Day. Fuck it, Leif Erikson Day. My family celebrates Guy Fawkes Day, for some reason.

[chucklepea-hotpot]

Logan: Did you build figures out of chestnuts?

Wade: Yes, I made a chestnut Logan. See? His arms are crossed because he’s mad at chestnut Wade for annoying him. Do you like it?

Logan, tearing up: No, it fucking sucks.

[llama-bird]

Lets just watch the sunrise, sitting on our fence

@tibby-art and @evenmoreevil in Autumn Life

[it-came-autumnally]

Got Toya's Sanrio card and these interactions are so funny... VBS has been on the RW grind lately in Ensekai so kind of I forgot how fun their more light-hearted interactions were

[autumnbrambleagain]

living from 11/7/21 to 3/8/24, Diamond (Is Not Crash) lived nearly 2 and a half years, which, to keep our running mouse analogy of humans climbing mountains, is like going into space and getting to orbit, but not land on, the moon. Diamond, you lasted 4 fucking calendar years. What the fuck, buddy.

This week's Mouse Of The Week is very special.

Diamond (Is Not Crash). She was born 11/7/21, which means she's not only more than 2 years old, but that she's seen 4 calendar years. She is fueled by spite. She was going to be an aggression cull because she was defending her friend Skeld in Group Bin, but instead got pulled as a private pet.

She says the key to a long life is wheel, climbing on logs, and a pasta noodle.

[liesandnights]

Unfortunately if you are an old friend of mine I will always care about you. No matter what, even if we haven't seen each other in forever because I still remember what you were like 7 years ago and I still remember how it felt to be young with you and I still have a lot of love for you in the back of my mind.

[bandsandwristbands]

Intimacy!! Cuddles!! Gaalee has me by the throat!

[livefastnbebeautiful]

[benevolenterrancy]

I'm over a hundred pages into Thousand Autumns and I still haven't gotten to see much of Shen Qiao or Yan Wushi yet, but at least I'm enjoying the "Have You Considered Extreme Violence?" Disciples. If this book doesn't start giving me more of the main pair soon i'm going to start shipping these two instead, I think they'd get along like a house on fire

[autumnbrambleagain]

happy pride month, remember that while our enemies work in a frightening coordination to deprive us of our rights and kill us, we must stand together against the truest danger:

other queer people whose use of language to describe their personal experiences doesn't match your own

remember, no battle is more important than all of us killing all of us over what words we can use or not

so remember, as countries around the world turn fascist and conservative and make plans to kill us,

your time on this earth is best spent picking a side on whether or not people can use language that was fine 2 years ago but that you've decided isn't fine anymore

[l-norris]

Landos' greeting in his new IG Broadcast🥰

[summer-oil]

i was about to say something so tasty

[thefatesofspring]

Credits to: creativelbd on TikTok

Remember when I said a little while back that I can’t believe people think that Eris was the same age if not slightly younger than Mor when in reality he was no older than 10-11yrs old?…well Sam has done an amazing breakdown of how old Eris was actually likely to be & guess what…he’s younger than even I stated…

Please watch it & understand that realistically it’s not possible for Eris to have been in his teens or Mor’s age.

[it-came-autumnally]

eito? hello??? eito.

[matcha-matics]

Beach shen qiao turned out to be my fav cosplay of the weekend somehow? I just needed to share because the bamboo staff pool noodle kept making me giggle so bad fkfng