#every game basically

[sephirthoughts]

game devs: BEATING A THEME INTO THE NARRATIVE WITH A FUCKING SLEDGEHAMMER

fandoms: if you are smart and think really hard about it, you might notice that it kind of a little bit seems like the game devs might perhaps be subtly implying—

[egophiliac]

don't think I'm not still obsessing over 7-12

[starii-void]

going to chb must be crazy like imagine sharing a camp with

-one of the strongest demigods ever who's saved the world like at least 3 times, fought multiple gods & titans and WON (and is a tartarus survivor)

-the literal main architect of OLYMPUS who's also saved the world multiple times (also tartarus survivor)

-THE lord of the wild who's also close friends with the first two (and has helped save the world multiple times)

-an emo kid from the 1930s who again helped save the world and is also a tartarus survivor (TWICE)

-a son of apollo who survived tartarus with nothing but cargo shorts and sheer will (pun intended)

-the main designer and builder for the argo II, also the first hephaestus kid to have fire powers since hundreds of years ago (did i mention killed gaea? no? yeah he did that too)

-a girl who somehow charmspeak-ed gaea into falling back asleep (also side note daughter of super famous actor because why not)

-pretty much everybody is a two-time war veteran

-THE GOD APOLLO who just sometimes comes down to visit in the form of a teenage boy

-did i mention dionysus, god of wine madness and theatre

-also chiron, trainer of pretty much every greek hero ever

[thatcrimsonsun]

I laugh out loud every time I remember that scene in tsc where Jean was like "Well HE has scars as well and you don't question HIM!" and Jeremy is like "Jean. He's trans, those are his top surgery scars. You're traumatized. Not the same."

[batshaped]

the continued adventures of an internet user who was frozen in 2004 and defrosted in 2021: some things are just the way you left them

previous 2004 internet user comics are here: one, two, three, four, five; or just in my 2004 tag

[itsajollyjester]

Thinking about an AU where Lenore Dove DID manage to survive up to seeing Katniss and Peeta and what that would mean and driving myself a little crazy in the process

[thangyus]

SCREAMING AND CRYING

[bulbasauryeee]

i will never stop thinking about the fact that kris dreemurr, protagonist of one of the biggest and most influential indie games of all time, is openly and undeniably nonbinary/gnc. not nonbinary to be singled out, not nonbinary because they're non-human/non-living, not nonbinary to show that they lack personality... just nonbinary for the sake of being nonbinary. and they're the main protagonist!!! it's so cool

and the fact that they're treated the same as everyone else for it and it's not a huge deal to anyone. the fact that everyone in that game, no matter how opposed to them they are, never misgenders them. never finds it weird. never sees them as lesser than for it. kris is in fact seen by many as an important person to be respected; a hero

i knowwww people say this stuff all the time and it's such a small thing (kinda) but god it really does mean the entire world to have representation like this

[scielson]

replaying kcd2 now and at first i didn’t really understand why hans just left henry and fended for himself but after thinking it through… hans really wants to prove himself to his uncle, wants other people to see he matured and is ready for his responsibilities. and delivering a message isn’t per se that tough of a task. since he had the responsibility for his crew, he actually blames himself a lot — that’s why you get approval points if you reassure him when he feels guilty about things that happened in the game. anyway, he trusts henry even though they bicker and fight like an old couple, so hearing from someone so close to him that he’s actually at fault hurts like crazy — that genuinely offended him. he needs someone to back him up and believe in him. so when you meet him again at the wedding, he basically says “shoo. i wasn’t good enough for you, now leave me alone.” which again proves that he is in fact hurt by henry’s critique but also lowkey blames himself because let’s be real… it was lowkey his fault that they ended up the way they did.

[egophiliac]

some (extremely) quick doodles to celebrate the glorious return of glorious masquerade! I haven't had a chance to do much personal drawing lately, but I didn't want to let it go by without doing something!

[shiredwarf]

[xbomboi]

5 times Apple hugged Raven…

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…and the one time Raven hugged back.

(see my previous eah comic here)

[a-purely-objective-frog]

As someone who works retail in a city with A Lot of mormons, in a store sandwiched between a mormon bookstore and a mormon-run ice cream place, I play a game with myself where I pretend I have only the vaguest of ideas what mormonism is to see how people explain it to me.

(Technically I was raised mormon but I never was a mormon for autism reasons. It's complicated, but I had to go to church for 18 years so I have the rights and information to lightly psychologically torture these nice people.)

Today I had a really odd one. Lady comes in with a bunch of family photos and a few church photos, including one of Russell Nelson, the current mormon prophet. She's chatty, we are talking about her photos while I ring her up when I see my opportunity.

Is this grandpa?

Oh, no, no. That's the president.

(For those of you not in the know, mormons referring to the prophet as "president lastname" is pretty common. Referring to them simply as "the president" is Not Typical but I can see how she got her wires crossed. I try to act appropriately confused.)

...of the PTO?

No, no, sorry, my church has a president. We call the prophet the president, sometimes.

Oh neat! Does your church also have a vice president?

And she crashed to BiOS. I have never actually seen a person crash this hard. I'm sure she's a busy woman with six kids at home and has been running errands all day but she crashed Hard. I actually felt bad. She opened her mouth and shut it without speaking twice, before busting up in laughter, like, semi-hysterically. Then she took her stuff and left, and when I told her to have a good day she didn't respond. Weird, considering how chatty she had been. The vibe was Off.

That is normally not how this game goes. Usually, they are very nice to me and try their best to explain themselves/invite me to their ward, and we play the Politeness game. Idk what her problem was, but I hope she's ok.

[itsajollyjester]

SOTR Spoilers Ahead:

I've seen a couple of posts now about people's suspicion over The Capitol being able to find a girl that could replace Louella as fast as they did, especially after finding out Lou Lou's from District 11

But I'm gonna be honest, when I found out she was from District 11, it actually put a lot of the pieces together for me. My mind immediately went to Seeder, the D11 female victor in Catching Fire

If its been a second since you've read CF here's her description:

She looks like she could be from the seam. I wouldn't be surprised if Seeder's description is the reason SC chose D11 for Lou Lou tbh.

Also for making their faces match, I've always just kinda assumed fast fashion cosmetic surgery is common place for The Capitol so there's probably plenty of surgeons able to do the job quickly and well enough to pass her off as Louella to anyone who didn't know her.

And it’s not like they did a particularly clean job at it either. Their “solution” was so incredibly slapped together and messy (And that’s HORRIFIC because we’re talking about a CHILD). She’s hooked up to drugs 24/7, which could easily be ripped out, manipulated, etc. and also make her barely able to function and causes more problems for the Capitol than not. One thing that’s brought up over and over in sotr is the Capitol’s gross incompetence, but because of they’re good at propaganda, you wouldn’t realize it. Lou Lou’s another example of that

(Also....Seeder's in her 60s in CF...meaning she would have been a victor and, I dunno, old enough to have a 13 year old by the 50th Hunger Games...I'M NOT SAYING SHE'S LOU LOU'S MOM I'm just saying the timeline lines up weirdly well)

[pqiwendooooooo]

canon? pLeAsE that bitch does NOT get to tell me what i can and cannot do

[stoopkidlisteningtocsh]

Some objectums in the tag: damn date everything sucks even though literally from the start it was pretty clear the objects would turn humanoid. As seen by. The every single advertisement for it. But i need to be upset!

People into date everything in the tag: uh hey so what does it mean if the object dating games makes me blush looking at the ac vent? Like the real one? Is this what its like??