#idle mmo

[saederkrupps]

the greatest tragedy any video game fandom can face is their game getting a idle game mobile spin off.

[baeshijima]

ngl after re-binge-watching hq!! with my mum, i have the urge to pick up my hq!! various x reader series again,,, i still have all the notes and plans and rereading that made me realise it would actually make a good fic 😭

[ratatatastic]

his posture is so wack to me girl what are you doing why are you...cryptid ass stance

alternatively it reminds me of something...

[sjofn-lofnsdottr]

Something I find funny today:

I idled in Radz-at-Han a lot, over the course of Endwalker's life. I liked the day and night themes, and I loved how lively the city felt, with people arriving at the aetheryte and running off to whatever business they had there. It felt natural to go there, hit up the endgame gear vendors, then hang out by the retainer bell in the aetheryte plaza, people watching. And if I needed the market board, I would port back to Dusk's house, rather than go to Sharlayan, a place I just do not vibe with.

I HATE going to Solution 9. I dart in, spend my tomestones/books/whatever and then L E A V E. I hate how sterile the city is, I hate the droning lo-fi theme, I hate the immobile crowd of crafters all facing away from each other as they mindlessly grind their scrips (even as I understand it, I promise <3). I hate all the NPCs still wearing those goddamn regulators. I can't stop thinking about how awful I found the place during the MSQ, how the only place that felt alive to me in the entire place is the seedy area where the raids are. It's dystopian as fuck to me.

And when I need a marketboard ... half the time I port to Tuliyollal. Because that place is alive, it has day and night themes, the mass of crafters there get up and move more than once in a blue moon because they're mostly still leveling, so are running off to hand in leves or get their new class quest or what have you, while other people run by to whatever business they have there.

And I love that, I love that Solution 9 gets such a visceral reaction out of me, this long after I first arrived there. If it's supposed to feel Wrong - and I have every reason to believe it is, of course - they did a fantastic job of making it Wrong and keeping it Wrong, even with people doing their little MMO endgame tasks in it. And I love that Tuliyollal is such a stark contrast to it, long after the MSQ stops pointing it out to us.

[onehourgameplay]

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[professorsparklepants]

here's an out of pocket rant I dictated to my notes app via text to speech on my walk to work this morning.

So since K/DA was really popular I've seen a lot of other MMO companies collab with kpop groups to make songs with animated music videos, but for some fucking reason they all do it extremely wrong? (Shout out to the person on YouTube who described Perfect Night by le sserafim as "they're making my girls sing newjeans music for OverWatch 😭" this is about you!)

Like the reason that K/DA was good was firstly because the League of Legends team knows how to make good music and secondly, because it sounded like a K-Pop song. The other music that I've seen it's not.... *Bad* per se but it just doesn't really seem to capture what makes a K-Pop song specifically both a *K-Pop* song and also good.

There's also such a miscasting of voices. Like the mv that came out that had newjeans singing gods? Why would you get a group of teen girls that specializes in fresh, toothless teen pop to do such a big, dramatic, sweeping song. It doesn't make any sense to me. K/DA pulled soyeon and miyeon from (g)-idle because it was a K-Pop song and they needed K-pop idols to sing it. They didn't just pick them because they're popular and K-pop is in right now. They pulled them because they were doing K-pop music because worlds was in Korea and they needed people who fit the genre and who understood the assignment. And obviously, both parties understood the assignment very well because it fits (g)-idle's music enough that they actually perform the song in concert despite only two of their members being on the track.

Thirdly, they all have animated music videos, but they don't seem to understand why the K/DA music video was animated in the first place? Like the point of the K/DA MV was that the people who are singing are League of Legends characters and that's what makes it cool. It's imagining a group of League of Legends characters as a K-Pop group in a way that makes the archetypes and personality of each character obvious and appealing to people who are not League of Legends players. (Which is one of the strengths of Kpop and idol music in general! Because it's designed to be a parasocial relationship inducing, it is very very good at putting group members in appealing little boxes!) But the other music videos I see are just like... about esports. It's just about a guy who plays esports and sits in a gamer chair and then gets in an imagined mind space where he fights other esports players like it's. It's completely missing the point of why people like that music video in the first place. People don't like K/DA because they like esports. They like K/DA because it was good music. The people who requested an entire EP from them were not people who follow esports. They were people who like music.

Tldr everyone who is trying to follow this and make it a trend just does not understand why K/DA got popular in the first place. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

[warriorcatsofficialfacts]

warrior cats fans

i wanna see the correlation between game genre and media taste

[ultramantr1gger]

idling in an mmo is like crack to me

[jumpstartfactoftheday]

One of Frankie's idle animations in the JumpStart MMO depicted him as being able to hover in the air by flapping his ears.

[thecrystarium]

　　 · 　 * · ✦ about the blogger ✫ ✵ ·　　✵ 　　 ˚

b | 30+ | she/her | queer i've been playing ffxiv since 2/20/22! i played wow for 10+ years and then left for a long while, was missing mmos, so i decided to give ffxiv a chance after seeing someone play a bit of it. i fell in love immediately, absolutely loved the gameplay and story, and ended up finishing endwalker on 9/19/2022! i'm a decent gifmaker, a mediocre writer, and a bad gposer, but i'm having fun doing all of them! all likes and follows come from @pdwoozi~ :) update: very close to finishing dawntrail! i've just got the lvl 100 dungeon and the last trial left to do, and i'll get around to it soon! i'm so enraptured in crafting/gathering right now, i don't know what to do with myself. i've got culinarian and fishing @ 100 and i'm working hard on everything else!

　　 · 　 * · ✦ warrior of light ✫ ✵ ·　　✵ 　　 ˚

twinkle littlestar | 29 years old | pictomancer (main) twinkle littlestar (a chosen name rather than her given) is of the dunesfolk lalafell and is small in stature compared to others of her age. her nameday falls on the 29th sun of the first umbral moon and she very much loves to celebrate it with all of the people she's come to call friends. twinkle chose ul'dah her home, though she hails from somewhere else entirely. she loves the twists and turns of the city streets and the shadows the lamps cast when they flicker on at night. oftentimes, you'll find her just outside the city walls, looking straight up at the stars and marveling over the heavens. she doesn't remember much of her parents, who were taken away from her all too soon, but she does remember her mother singing her a little song every night as she snuggled up under her covers to fall asleep.

to say that twinkle loves the nighttime and stars (those from the source and those from other shards alike) is an understatement. if you ask her, the night sky is ever-changing, the heavens ever-moving. there's something exciting to see in it every time she glances back after having just looked away. (just ask her about the moment she saw the night sky return on the first!) the mere sight of something space-y sends her into an excited tizzy the likes of which you've never seen before. and for gods sakes, don't get her on the topic of constellations and their meanings because you'll never hear the end of it. see, here's where most people would figure she would have taken up with the astrology guild, but the people that know twinkle best know that her true talent lies in the arts. hand her a piece of paper and you won't get it back without doodles all over it. when she can't find the words to describe what she wants, she'll draw you a picture of it.

in twinkle's book, the less she has to speak, the better. she can go days, weeks without talking sometimes, and it brings her peace. so, when she has something to say, listen. it's usually important. her friends, at first, attempted to get her to speak more, but after an explanation to alisaie that she really didn't care much for idle chatter or feel a need to insert herself into conversations, everyone else got the memo. she's not trying to be rude or shut herself out: she does love to listen! to music, to the sound of her friend's voices, to the silence that surrounds her whenever she escapes to look at the night sky.

[thedawningofthehour]

SORRY FOR THE LONG ASK but you activated my sleeper agent rottmnt brainstorming Re: The Video Game Question

Raph: would probably like low strategy single player games and lean toward arcade/motion control based experiences because they present a way around the "Hand Too Big Controller Too Small And Breakable" problem. As an Oldest Sibling (speaking from an Oldest Sibling Gamer pov) he would have been the Designated Single Player Driver (I have a vivid mental image of Raph playing old c tier single player wii games like My Sims Kingdom while Mikey, Leo, and Donnie yell instructions at him) and I think he's still gravitated towards those kinds of games. He also feels like the kind of guy who will thoroughly enjoy every video game he plays but his favorite is still inexplicably just like. Uno for the ps3

Leo: Would like competitive games. I feel like he's the kinda guy who cannot bring himself to give a shit about the story or aesthetics of a game and cannot care at all about single player video games outside of speedrunning or something. The point of games for him Is To Win. I feel like him and Donnie both played CSGO or COD at a young age with voice chat and thats why they are who they are. His favorite game is probably a competitive hero shooter or smth. He probably is playing Valorant as we speak.

Donnie: I feel like he's the only one who is a Capital "G" Gamer. Has the broadest taste but tends to like games he can "lose himself" in. (Competitive shooters, MMOs, lengthy and intricate single player games IE: Dark Souls or Elden Ring, metroidvanias, RPGs, fighting games) If the taste of Donnie Gamer Mode we get in the show is anything to go by, he seems the type to obsess over a game for like a month, beat it 120%, probably achieve some level or speedrunning or competitive infamy and then drop it completely never to be seen again.

Mikey: Would love sandbox games for Sure. Plays Minecraft but only on creative mode. Will play sims but only with cheats to make super intricate mansions or crazy houses or recreate something he saw in a movie once. He would 100% play single player games his brothers already beat so he can look around at the scenery and mess around in a character creator. Will play an open world game and never do a single main story mission and call it quits when he gets bored.

They've all 100% played a bunch of really weird and bad shovelware games or really cheap 3rd party titles because they were what Splinter could get for them. They all have 10 to 15 mobile idle games they'll rotate out bc they all need to be Stimulated at All Times. Yes they have played Mario Party and Killed Each Other over it but more importantly they have played Dokapon Kingdom and have started rivalries that have lasted several months over this game. They will hold grudges til they die over this game. They have never gotten to the end screen of this game and in all likelihood, never will.

Idk maybe my vibes are off tho lol but can you tell I've thought about this a lot to my own detriment

There's actually a point in the next book-I think it's in chapter 1 but I can't remember-where Galois mentions giving Raph one of Draxum's oversized keyboards when he has to do anything on the computer. (Draxum has large-print keyboards because he's Old) I think I've mentioned that the boys all have larger-than-normal phones because they only have the three fat fingers and that's just not gonna work with a standard iPhone. Raph I feel like is basically Strong from Fallout 4:

(bless him)

I'm reminded of when my sister would sit and watch my play Dream Life to 'learn', until I moved it into my own room. Really, their first console was probably 'whatever Splinter found in a dumpster and still worked', so unless it was something with connected controllers they were probably playing off whatever controllers he'd found as well, so it's entirely possible they legit just had the one controller for awhile. And yeah, they all crowd around to watch Raph play because that's annoying little sibling behavior.

Mikey would love games where the goal is to Make Something. He doesn't care about winning, only stepping back and looking at the finished product and going "nice." I do feel like he'd actually play the sims though-the twins use it as a building simulator, but he'd absolutely get into the lives and stories of his sims. He builds too, but he also gets into creating the sim. He plays Fallout 4 with the Sim Settlements mod and never finds Shaun because all he's doing is building shacks for farmers.

Oh, Leo is absolutely in it to win it. In any way, if it has a score he can use to compare to Donnie's he loves it. The sole exception to this is city builders, I can absolutely see him sinking days into Cities Skylines creating elaborate planned cities with complicated mass transit and beautiful walking spaces.

The other exception is if he can fuck around in a game and be chaotic. He plays Skyrim and installs the sex mods not because he's horny, but because he thinks going around in this incredibly inappropriately horny fantasy world is hysterical. He uses it more as a Medieval Life Simulator and if he completes a quest it's entirely by accident.

Donnie is absolutely the worst gamer and will learn literally everything there is about the game after playing it through once. He also probably mods his games, or even makes his own mods. Some of them to make everything look cooler or add quality of life and immersion stuff in, but he'll also do stuff like install the mod that replaces the Skyrim arrow noises with a man going "pew!"

Omg they absolutely played knock-off games as kids. They probably lied to Mikey about them being off-brand so he didn't feel bad about their situation, telling him that the title was a misprint and all the ads for the actual game were lying.

[jumpstartpicoftheday]

Frankie doing a headstand with his ears, from an idle animation that was used in the JumpStart MMO.

[scratchyemporium]

im bored

please reblog for bigger sample size

[lilacs-and-lavenders]

Experimenting with different games to see which ones interest me. I got SF6 and it's fun watching CPU Kimberly beat up pl1. Love all the colors. It's nice seeing something different for a change on my TV screen. Refreshing even looking at something that isn't laced with terrible memories. 👏🏽

Having a bit of a difficult time staying in FF, though. Yes I am going to be playing when the DT expansion releases but I don't know how often. I'm just too annoyed by the other players when I log in. They don't really bother me at all but...idk...I guess all of my bad memories of the toxic fake friends I met ruined the overall atmosphere and feel of the game for me as well as my view of people as a whole so I have a love/hate relationship with it. Affwcted me more than I thought. Traumatic memories. Ugh. I love seeing my WoL though but I cant bring myself to log in much which is why I created them in Sims 4. It also gets incredibly lonely since no one really talks to each other especially if you aren't in their friend group/clique. And I am obviously not good at making friends despite my best efforts. They always end the same. Trauma. Trauma. And more trauma. I honestly don't know what I was expecting from an MMO. I got a little to ambitious with wanting to branch out try new things. 😅 I'm going to stick around to the very end of the game whenever that is ofcourse. I obviously can't quit because of my houses which sucks because I am losing all drive to play it. BUT whenever it does finally end, goodbye FFXIV. I'm dipping out. Deuces.✌🏼

I think I am just wanting something new. A change of pace. But it is so hard to find games that interest me and counter my low attention span. I mostly like idle games now and mobile stuff. I love Sims 4 despite it's flaws but do wish that it still had a lot of the elements that Sims 3 did like cars and an open world. They also really need to optimize it because the latency issues are a pain in the ass. 😭

I have a bunch of other games on backlog that I might try out. I don't have the patience for long-winded storylines anymore let alone long games like the new AC Creeds bleh. I don't like overly grinding stuff, either. And I don't want anything that's an online multiplayer. Just...no. FF drained me.🤦🏽‍♀️

I do have other hobbies like writing, drawing, and photography. We'll photography on my phone since I don't have a professional camera. Also blogging obviously. I've changed blogs so many times on here. 🤣

tldr: MMOs are not for me and most of the FF players drained me and killed the game for me due to their toxicity and need to want to manipulate and take advantage of others. It's sad. Looking for newer games to play that strike my fancy and keep my attention. I love idle games and stuff like Sims 4. Well...games that allow me to design my own character. I don't like overly long games and grindy gameplay. Too stressful and draining. Have other hobbies, too. I get bored of things easily.

Oh! I wanted to add this note in, too. On the days when I don't play. I feel so much more relaxed. So that speaks volumes there. I'll stick with my single player games. They're so chill now. 😎❤️

[onymonch]

After being raised mostly by my grandparents, getting a job today feels like logging into a 20 year old MMO with 60 pages of expansion updates, convoluted destroyed story, atleast 50 idle users trying to sell money and exp, and a tiny tutorial that prepares you for whatever the fuck the game looked like at release.

[icyday]

After a bit of vague-ing about my 'maybe queer' status earlier this month, I thought I might explain 1) why I feel ambiguous about my sexuality and 2) how I accidentally acquired a wife. The post is long, but it ends up covering about 18 years altogether.

(Shared with the permission of the wife in question @muusudgoi)

Warning: certain titles/referents might get ambiguous in places. The person referenced has read this and agreed that it reflects how she identified/how our relationship was perceived at the time.

Let's start with 18-year-old me. Call it a prologue of sorts.

Like the me of now, she has no clue of her sexuality. She's had a couple of boyfriends who were okay for a while. She's also interested in lesbians, at least at conceptual level. At least, she's read everything in her town's public library about lesbians, and while yaoi/shounen-ai seemed quite boring to her, yuri/shoujo-ai seemed a lot more interesting. However, she'd also never met a specific girl IRL that she had sapphic feelings for, except maybe in an idle 'if they were interested, I wouldn't say no' sense. They weren't interested. It wasn't an issue.

(in retrospect, she may have had a crush on her 5th grade teacher, but that's neither here nor there)

So to a certain point, she came into her university years being clueless about her sexuality to herself and deliberately vague about it to others. Was she gay? Bi? Straight? Ace? If you couldn't tell, why should she. She was also not really doing much to perform gender in any direction, so she didn't really project anything.

Her freshman college experience was one guy she met briefly, set up a casual date with, got stood up by, and then sort of walked away without giving too much of a damn. And then a (probable) egg whom she met-up with, and didn't jibe with chemistry-wise, and then just kind of relegated to a casual acquaintance. She might have been interested in the concept of girls but figured 1) she was too plain and slovenly to attract any and 2) despite not being any kind of religious, she was living at a Catholic dorm and was a little wary about being too open about any interest she might have had in that direction.

(It was very close to campus and reasonably cheap.)

Then, the meet cute happens. And the PoV switches into first person.

At the beginning of my Sophomore year, I had started playing an MMORPG that a friend of mine was into. I joined the group she was part of, and my future-wife was also part of that group. We both played female characters, though at the time she was not. While that might have been foreshadowing, the fantasy race we both played was female only, and enough male players played them that there was both a specific term to refer to them and it was the assumed default.

My wife was not immune to this. During the first interaction we both remember, she absolutely assumed I was a dude until I told her otherwise.

Anyway...

We didn't interact a lot for the first few months. I was a newb, and she sort of drifted in and out of the game. Left, played something else, came back for a bit etc. Springtime eventually rolled around, and she came back again. This time we were of similar levels on our main jobs, so there were more reasons for us to interact and tag along on each other’s quests. (Hey! You need a chest from this dungeon, and I need a chest from this dungeon! Let’s party!)

Her impression of me in retrospect: "You didn't annoy me."

Truly, love was about to blossom.

No, what happened then is that my laptop died because apparently being constantly logged into an MMORPG on a student-grade laptop for months on end isn't great for it. No laptop, no MMO, but I could get to my dorm's computer lab and post to a popular forum to let people know what happened, with some snarky, but sentimental goodbyes. The message basically went "[Specific people], I love you and miss you. The rest of you can go get bombed by goblins. [jokingly]" Not those words exactly, but that sentiment. My wife-to-be was part of the 'rest of you' group, and she took that as a challenge.

She responded to my post with 'Aw, Jais, I thought you loved me too."

And then used her google-fu to find my AIM handle (this was the mid 2000s, if you couldn't tell), and sent me a message. The whole interaction started with me being like 'Who TF is this person and why are they messaging me' and ended up a week later with us watching the sunrise together in our respective locations and realizing (for the first time?) what love was. I hadn't really been searching for my person, but apparently, I had found one.

I was twenty. She had just turned twenty-four. We were both babies.

There's a lot to skip over here. I think the important thing is that as this point, my wife is boymoding it up full-time. Just before my 21st birthday, she moves from Florida to Illinois to be with me, since I'm attending University there and she isn't. We move in together after about a month. (U-haul joke?) Everyone treats us like boyfriend-girlfriend. We treat each other like boyfriend-girlfriend. Any signs that point to something else are treated by both of us as plot-irrelevant. I graduate, and get a fast food job in the college town. We adopt two kittens to go with the one she brought with her. I get into grad school, and we and the three cats move to Seattle. Eventually we get engaged and married. (Before same-sex marriage was even legal in Washington state, no less)

Somewhere on the other side of marriage, twenty started to feel very...young for me to have met the person I'd eventually marry. Like why did I not try meeting up with women? At least to see whether I liked it or not? How can I say I really know what I am for sure, if I've never had any serious sexual or romantic interaction with anyone outside of a single partner? But also, I wasn’t terribly interested in either polyamory or leaving my spouse, so I dismissed those feelings as plot irrelevant.

Also, whatever is up with her gender gets more relevant. We attend our first Pride parade (as allies), which she may have cross-dressed for. I know there was definitely at least one Pride she cross-dressed at, because I had to be there to go, "Honey, no, try this instead." More signals are coming through (and I am, for plot-irrelevant reasons, much savvier to them) to the point where I do wonder if we're going to end up being old lesbians one day after we're done having children or whatnot.

But then dental insurance happens, and I think that ends up being the breaking point for my wife.

Between bad luck and poverty, my wife has always had terrible teeth, and not a lot of means to fix them. But two things happen in 2013-2014. One, we finally obtained decent dental insurance thanks to my job hiring me full time, and two, one of our cats ended up accidentally clawing her face in such a way that she ended up with an infection that the tooth issues aggravated. So after living years accepting that her terrible teeth were just a fact of life, she finally started getting them fixed. And mayve taking care of that problem led her to realizing that another thing that had bugged her her whole life might also be fixable.

(That whole gender thing.)

My feelings on her coming out at the time were extremely complicated. On one hand, I was a lot more educated on trans issues in 2014 than I was in 2005. The news didn't exactly surprise me. On the other hand, it was also the first time in our relationship where having a kid might not have been a total disaster, and the timing of the her news meant that we probably wouldn't get an opportunity to try. She offered to go back into the closet if I wasn't willing to stay with her, and I flat out refused that, the reasoning at the time being, "Now that you've told me your truth, I'm not going to let you lie to me." I told her I couldn't guarantee that I'd stay, but that I was willing to see what happened.

As an aside: There's a distinction between respecting someone's choice to stay closeted and being the reason someone chooses to stay in the closet. The first is a good thing, but I'd rather not be the second if I can help it.

There were a lot of changes. I don't know how deeply I want to get into them when this already feels so long, except to say, feelings get extremely complicated. I felt very isolated at points. Major changes were happening to my wife, and she wasn’t out to the world yet. Not only could I not talk about them, I also felt restricted about what I could talk about with others in a casual sense. It's like when people in same-sex relationships are told not to 'flaunt' it by well-meaning bigots, and that means not talking about any topic where their partner might come up. There was also the small issue where she came out to my mom and aunt by saying "Your daughter's a lesbian" as a joke, without actually checking in with how I felt about it (either the label itself or 'being outed' as it were).

But the changes were good to her. She was more confident and more open with herself and I liked the person she was becoming. She liked the way she looked which led to her paying more attention to her appearance, so she was definitely looked better. She was also 100% committed to our relationship, which meant that she was willing to be patient while I tried to keep up with her on her journey. It's hard to say whether I'm more or less attracted to her now as opposed to before she came out. If I had to simplify it, I'd say there's a bit less of a sexual connection, but more of an emotional one, and I'm definitely a lot more handsy with her now.

Anyway, it's been about nine years since she came out and started her transition. Our relationship is more stable than it's ever been. Therapy, economic stability, and not being in our twenties any more will do that to people.

I still don't know my own sexuality. I just accidentally married a woman.

(Have you tried living on one income while paying rent on a Seattle apartment?)

If I were pressed to label myself, I might go with 'vaguely bi' until I have more evidence in either direction. 'Bad at heterosexuality' is a fun way of putting it much in the same way that I sometimes refer to my wife as 'my boyfriend at the time', or 'my ex-husband' in contexts where the joke is obvious to anyone who might see it. (As when she posts our wedding photos, asking where she got that picture of me and my ex-husband from). But I'm also pretty sure that I don't project queer vibes IRL until the fact of my wife is known. Most of the queer spaces I've been in have primarily focused on gender-type queerness. This means I've always functioned more as a guest or an accessory to my wife, rather than a person who belongs there in her own right.

I keep thinking about labels. What fits me. If I even count as LGBTQ+, queer, or if I’m just in the penumbra that exists between the straight world and the rainbow one. I’ve learned a lot about what I don’t want in a label. I’ve adopted ‘bi’ over ‘pan’ mostly out of spite for the cohort that considered (considers? Is it still a thing) bisexual a transphobic identity. But I still haven’t figure out what I do want in one. Maybe I’m just one of those ‘problematic’ people who just doesn’t need a label.