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there is no video game with an "archeology" minigame whose archeology minigame does not suck ass.
#this is because archeology is boring as shit#like much love to archeologists#they do good work#but the activity is actually really dull!#and trying to shoehorn an arbitrary exploration minigame#into your video game#using archeology as the metaphor#takes a bad concept and makes it worse#if you make your video game right#exploration is not a system you need to tack on once the rest of the game is done
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A new challenger approaches (slowly)
[First] Prev <–-> Next
#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#wen chao#jin zixuan#jiang cheng#lan wangji#tulu xuanwu#Wen Chao's turtlephobia starts now. I wonder if that's ever going to come back into play?#Slight re-ordering of events for the funny punchlines but we're close to getting back on track.#The mianmian stuff happening right after we also have a Torment Tortoise looking for blood makes this scene so chaotic.#A good kind of chaos as it is supposed to be overwhelming and anxiety inducing!#I have been sitting on the idea of the Beast being just a normal turtle with a knife for ages. Years in fact.#It's stupid as hell but that's sometimes what art is. Indulging the past you who would have loved to see the dumb thing be drawn.#Making it canon now that A-Qing's turtle (the one pd-Lan Sizhui found) is a descendant of this turtle.#Maybe she was so defensive because she has eggs she was watching over! How insensitive of these cultivators!#You can insert your own choice of boss music here - I did not grow up playing video games so I have nothing off the top of my head.#I am making a BOTW reference here so you could substitute one of those themes but I find them more melancholic than menacing.
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There needs to be a scientific study done on how Rockstar Games' Arthur Morgan is able to provoke the most earth shattering emotions I didn't even know I had in me
#you guys get me right#like you feel it deep in your chest#the joy the anguish the grief#it feels like words aren't enough#and I don't mean it as in “sad moment in video game makes you sad”#I mean it as in “a deep and well written moment that has been slowly building is fleshed out in a video game and I think about for weeks”#when I say I lose sleep over this game I really mean it#I spend hours just laying in bed thinking about everything that happens in arthur morgan's life#it eats at me#I'm not ashamed of how much I have cried over this game#it fucking gets to me#playing rdr2 is the best form of escapism until the story hits you like a stab in the chest but the blade just pushes in further and further#until you're left with a gaping wound#“wow michael I didn't know you were so emotional over pixels on a screen”#except those pixels were acted out and performed by real people and voiced by real people and designed to look like real people#the game's main target was historic realism emphasis on REALISM#to provoke emotions through amazing storytelling#it's okay to feel strongly about things!!#this game man#this game#rdr2#red dead redemption 2#mick squeaks#mick thinks#arthur morgan#red dead redemption 2 spoilers
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the labyrinth as defined by the american heritage dictionary of the english language is “the maze in which the minotaur was confined”. minotaur, as defined by wikipedia, is the unnatural offspring of a woman and a beast. among other things.
a demigod is the unnatural offspring of a mortal and a god. of all the profane and blasphemous things you could do, knocking up yours or someone else’s creation is up there. therefore if one is to be born, it must be killed or otherwise punished. yes, we’ve established all of this.
cinder is the child of daksari. not profane or blasphemous enough to have a child with a mortal, but enough to get her sorry ass imprisoned under miles and miles of what was just begging to be called a labyrinth. the only thing it was missing was the minotaur, of course. so when the youngest child of cadaver had a rather surprising run in with a very godless mortal on the moon of cassandra…. it all seems rather planned out, doesnt it? i cant help myself when it comes to references to mythology and video games.
a labyrinth and its minotaur.
what a terrible fate
#my art#demiking#promethea#if i was any good at environment art id draw a part of the labyrinth itself.... as of right now just envision any video game dungeon#thats close enough#though this labyrinth was not created by a mortal. daksari made it specifically to make getting to cinder impossible#you could spend forever down there. if youre jack you did spend forever down there#all of this specifically because tumblr user night8 said oh whats that in tags. imagine if i showed this initiative during job interviews#or home life
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Qrow’s Semblance is Fortune! 🐦⬛
I talked about this briefly before, having speculated that Clover’s pin carries on his good luck after death or that Qrow has just done a lot of training mentally and/or physically. @benevolentslut had some amazing additions as well & I want to sum up this theory for you as best as I can as we reached similar conclusions even before I had read her reblog.
Qrow has only been in the negative all his life, mentally and emotionally.
This man has had barely any positivity in his life.
"His whole life he's been the epitome of cynicism and pessimism." - @benevolentslut
Qrow grew up under constant stress & threat of those around him.
Needless to say, but I don't think he could trust anyone he grew up around except maybe Raven.
Then he has to constantly worry about being found out by the other huntsmen! Also growing up with the threat of huntsmen and Grimm the entire time!
Then Oz drops the whole Salem problem on him & I'm sure that didn't help his mental health in the slightest!
"His sister leaves him and their team, and then summer disappears." - @benevolentslut Yeahhhh he is losing everyone close to him in one way or another! That cannot be a fun experience!
This look like the face of a guy that's doing okay?
I'm just going to copy paste this here as I hadn't noticed it & it feels worth noting that the intensity of his misfortune seems to increase with the increasing mental strain.
While we don't know for sure that all of these things are a byproduct of Qrow's misfortune semblance, it certainly isn't out of the realm of possibility. Notice the worsening of his mental health resulting in potentially more disastrous outcomes. 😰
"we see him blaming himself constantly for everything that goes wrong, and it only causes that to become more true." - @benevolentslut
She lists a lot more examples of where Qrow's semblance has potentially worked this way in the original post. Clover comes along & starts lifting him up, giving him actual hope. He now has a little seed of hope planted in him. 🍀
Wow, Qrow is doing so good for himself lately! I sure hope nothing-
Oh... oh no. From his perspective Ruby & Yang could literally be dead. He is stricken with grief as he watches it all unfold & probably sunk back down into a negative spot mentally. He may even blame himself in some way.
When you're this low, there's a saying that goes "nowhere to go but up."
I firmly believe that Qrow would see things that way, especially after reaching his lowest point. He can only do his best to help those around him. Though he's the most alone he's ever been, he's becoming a part of a new community where people help one another. In that sense, it's impossible to be alone. In spite of it all, he slowly finds his mental health improving! Ruby's message to the world is bringing people together! 🌹
"and we see him take up clover's role, both in terms of how he's helping out around shade, and more literally, in the unmissable parallel where he catches the guy who trips." - @benevolentslut
Ruby & Clover have both filled him with hope & he's more optimistic than he's ever been, which results in bursts good fortune! ✨
There's also already a premise for shifts in mental health and trauma resulting in semblance evolution.
Cinder betrayed Neo & so she winds up in the Ever After & through her form changes is showing us that she now has negative feelings towards Cinder.
She's so upset that her semblance starts to make multiple clones of her which it has never been able to do before. Her Overactive Imagination semblance has evolved due to the state of her mental health.
Her semblance begins to evolve so much to where she can create entire architectural structures and buildings out of it!
She can even use it to talk through the people she recreates, something she's not physically capable of herself.
While we do have to take into account that the Ever After plays by rules that are a little bit different at times; this absolutely confirms that semblances, much like people, can change & grow! 💪
My conclusion: Volume 10 & beyond will show Qrow's personal semblance evolution as he finds out that his power is actually Fortune itself & the ability to control it, good and the bad.
#oh god I have to compress the gifs so much because of tumblr's gif size limit 😩#thank you for the theory fuel & the supporting points you gave!#maybe I'll do a youtube video on this topic when I come off of my semi-hiatus#wow I told myself I'd keep it brief but here we are; I'm procrastinating packing my bags & making rwby theories#I just think Qrow is a very fascinating character & if we are right about this; he will be an important player in volume 10 & onward#imagine having a guy who can manipulate fortunate on your team; that's actually so powerful as an ability if he can master it#It's not so much that the Clover ebi pin is good luck; but that Qrow himself is becoming a beacon of good fortune#Fair Game lives on in his heart & the hope he's been given even if Clover isn't here to see it#please let me know what you think in the replies; reblogs; whatever; if you have anything to add I'd love to hear all about it!#rwby theory#rwby volume 10#rwby volume 9#fair game#qrow x clover#rwby#qrow branwen#greenlight volume 10#mine#op
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very late art trade for @y0d00p!
#video games#kirby#dark meta knight#i wanted to do your gijinka design just to make it a little more personal of an image at least#again so sorry for takjng so long i know you were worried about the same but... art. am i right 😔#i think you said you prefer when people post their sides of things so i wanted to make sure i was like proud enough to do that at least LOL#and i need to just Post it at this point
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You know, that would be ANGSTY COMICAL if we mixed that in the aftermath of the reveal of who is the real creator, since it could be taken as the creator REPLACING characters who hurt them.
-🥘Stew
that was the intent!
i think diluc would have it easiest. red is from a hateful part of his past, and he knows that he’s grown beyond that stage. if it weren’t for red’s temperament, he’d want to try and connect, if only to gain his trust. it still hurts, knowing that even after all this time he still failed to be what you needed, but it burns him the least.
fischl would be worse. night is everything she tried so badly to be, down to her own oz. to make it worse, night couldn’t care less about fischl, ignoring her monologues about who’s the real princess. the only one she needs the approval of is you, and she’d gotten that the second she was first summoned. she does fischl the mercy of letting her keep her name, but even that is mostly at your discretion. ‘fischl,’ ‘night,’ whatever. she just needs to protect you where amy failed.
and kaeya… my poor beloved. if night is what fischl wanted to be, shade is what kaeya has to be. night is a persona that fischl copied, shade is the very mask kaeya had put on for all his life. he’d entirely remade himself, down to the name he used and the way he treated his fellow knights, and it still wasn’t enough. all of his effort was poured into making himself something that could be accepted, that could be good enough. he’d thought he’d done a good job when he was first marked as a vessel, but now in the hunt it’s clear that his palatability only ran skin deep. shade is what you need, shade is what you want, and he’s genuine about it. shade’s entire life is yours, and he was rewarded for that devotion with your affection, earning a place at your side. and kaeya had devoted himself to the hunt instead, was so blinded by his own desires that he’d ignored the resistance of his vision. diluc may hate his past and fischl may hate night, but kaeya can only really hate himself.
#m1d : [chats]#m1d : [secrets]#stew🥘 anon#the shining nikki saga#the dark side of dawn#sailwind shadow#hello. i need a moment to be emotional about venti really quick sorry#hey siri put on my yearning playlist#fucking. destroyed. on the floor reminiscing about something that never happened.#me when i’m the victim of an idea of my own making#me when i’m the cause and the cure. me when ventis stuck in a problem that isn’t there. obliterated.#no words for this feeling rn. venti i’d like to formally apologize for the shit i’m about to put you through#‘it’s just a video game’ well your honor. it’s giving me shrimp emotions. so jot that down.#to clarify this is about nothing canon and nothing irl i’m just on the painful end of my own ideas#the author that writes the words and the reader that’s bound by them you know.#don’t worry if all goes well you’ll be inflicted with my pain too. provided i can pull it off.#pull it off as in convey it right not pull off the weight of it. i should shut up now.
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This is your sign to get back into playing that video game that you love but put down a long time ago and never picked back up again for no discernable reason
#started playing breath of the wild again a week or so ago after a youtube video about why we put down games showed up in my recommended#i can link the video for anyone who wants it but the most helpful advice in it for me was to just. try playing it for two minutes#if all your fears were right and you cant get back into it then you can put it right back down after the time is up#but if youre enoying yourself then you can keep playing#a big part of my fear was that i wouldnt be able to handle the combat anymore after going like a good couple years without playing it#bc one of the biggest things i love about botw is that for the most part. link doesnt level up#theres no attack and defense stats that level up as you earn experience and make him mechanically better at fighting#for the most part its YOU the player leveling up your fighting skills with practice#...but that also meant that after so long away from the game i was scared that i would have lost all my skill at it#and the learning curve would be too great this late in the game (literally the ONLY main storyline thing left for me to do is fight ganon)#but i played for two minutes and i remembered how much i loved the game. like firsthand not just vague recollection#so ive been running around doing side quests and exploring and now it doesnt feel like im stalling the final battle anymore#it feels like im just intentionally taking time to fully experience the game#and after getting combat practice in again with my exploration im finding out that my fears were wrong!#if anything im even BETTER at combat now than i was when i put the game down#back then i was still terrified of facing lynels and walking guardians#but now im taking them down before they can even get one hit in on me!#im so proud of myself and im having so much fun#so. for anyone else out there. this is your sign to do the same#rambling#maybe once i finish breath of the wild i can even finally start on tears of the kingdom 🙏
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Considering yesterday was one of the worst days I've had all year, and then today is hands-down the BEST day I've had all year, I now think literally anything is possible.
Guys please keep pushing forward. Your ray of sunshine could be a lot closer than you think it is.
#i'm being so serious#if you're looking for a reason to live right now think of what makes you happy#could be literally anything. ice cream; video game; your pet; grass; ect#hold onto that#it doesn't matter how stupid it sounds if it's keeping you alive#yesterday i was boarderline s//dal and today i feel like i'm on the top of the world#and it was all pure circumstance. yesterday my pet was at the vet and work sucked and people kept disrespecting me#and today i got confirmation i can get top surgery and i finally achieved a goal in a game i've been working for for months now#AND TWO old friends stopped by and we got to hang out for a while!#literally anything is possible okay you just gotta hold on#i promise it will get better. i can't promise when but i can promise you it will#but not if you give up#keep pushing. i love you. i see you. i support you. don't give up.#dimond speaks
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The moment I get fnaf Into The Pit it’s over for you bitches.
Genuinly omg I’ve been watching playthroughs and the animation, the sound design especially, the additions to the story ommmmgghg
I just really really love it omg i could go on but alas I will not
#Scrimbly talks#fnaf#fnaf into the pit#into the pit#fnaf games#Gabrielle I am onto you#also imagine a fucking rabbit replaced your dad and just chases you occasionally#William Afton makes you do homework and bangs your mom now#The Springbonnie in that game is very not-Afton like in behaviour#it’s really cool he might be the Afton ofc he probably is#but it’s so much more animal like#he doesn’t even gloat or monologue TT#it’s just cool#I love it sm#more video games like this maybe#this one does a good job at being creepy and disturbing like the kid in the endo on the first night omfg#his cries sounded so genuinly in pain it was awful to hear#top tier design exactly how I should feel during a horror game#and the deaths omg it really sounds like springbonnie is just chomping right through your bones#it’s sick as fuck
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Fun fact: calling me names and hating on me because I don’t like a thing is not going to make me like the thing. It’s just gonna make me hate it even more
#whatever happened to agree to disagree?#I’ve really grown to hate the fnaf movie and totk more and more because the people go at your throats when you criticize it#like??? it’s just a movie. it’s just a video game#calm down#and I can understand someone being upset when they’re talking about how much they love it#and then someone butts in and says how much it sucks#that’s frustrating and rude#but when I make a post critiquing the story and stuff ????#I have every right to do that#and you attacking me really shows that you’re the toxic part of the fandom#calm tf down#smiles rambles#delete later#maybe
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I've finally finished my first boss for my demon hunting game Judgement Nights! A guard dog for a much stronger demon, Grub keeps their secret safe and hidden from all mortal or demonic eyes
#I hope the notes help to understand what I was trying to go for hehe#Judgement Nights as a system hasn't really been tested by players yet. Just me.#I haven't played enough ttrpgs to know if something like this has been done before or not but something like it probably does lmao#think original fallouts if all of your allies shared one turn instead of being sorted into a turn order. If it was all just your guy's turn#And you had to balance using your AP wisely because whatevers left over you can use to counter the opponents turn!!#I hope that makes some sense I've been writing for a minute now and am kinda tired I'll probably go more in depth in another post#this post was supposed to be abt Grub but now its abt the combat as a whole woopsie :3#Grub needs just a bit more polish but I'm really happy I've gotten this far. Used to kinda be a far out idea but now that a Demons characte#sheet is right in front of me it feels almost surreal#First time designing a Tabletop game from the ground up and not basing it off an existing ip/ converting a video game into a tabletop#(even though its still very video game inspired taking a good bit from Devil May Cry)#indie ttrpg#Judgement Nights#ttrpg
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I watch OutsideXbox vids pretty often to unwind but today's video was about games where getting a bad ending was actually more work than a good ending
And it featured fucking Tales of Xillia 2
Which, no joke, upset me so thoroughly when I played and completed it that I have spent years denying its existence and trying to forget about it
So when this funtimes goofy youtube vid started and showed scenes from Xillia 2 without warning I literally yelled at the TV and started crying and Jon had to come check on me because I worried him. I was laughing through my tears like "This is stupid!! I shouldn't be having a fucking trauma response over a JRPG!!"
That's just how hard that game fucked me up
#it made me care about all the characters and then 1. one fucking betrayed me and 2. several die and you CANNOT save them all#you can't#it's like the first time you play ff7 and aeris dies but times like 50#you've spent like 60 game hours getting to know and love the main character and his brother! now make one kill the other 🙃#oh you don't want to do that? ok well guess u have to kill all your friends instead#ok you did the right thing and got to the end of the game and it's time to save the world! now choose who dies to make it happen#someone has to die. you've spent all these hours honing these characters and bonding with them. now kill one. now another#it fucking broke me man#i could go in but i need to go to bed#tales of xillia#tales of xillia 2#i'm gonna go back to pretending this game never happened#mod post#video games
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successful internet personality constantly feeling the gaze of the "THE RISE AND FALL OF ___" video essayists just waiting for them to slip up and crash for content for their next 4 hour video
#like... dgmw it's interesting to hear about some of the shady stuff some people did and how it affected their brand#And them being exposed so people can make informed choices about whether or not to support them is good too#but... damn it must be bleak to build your entire career on other people's failures gkfjfjd#+ it kinda creates a glass house scenario where people just assume there's nothing wrong with You#because you're the guy who calls out others so obviously you wouldn't share any of their flaws#which... sets a weird precedent i would say#like idk someone who's an abuser could start making videos calling Other people abusers and then nobody would suspect Them yk#& like... i am Not talking about sthg like hbomberguy exposing james somerton et al#his videos are about many different topics like games tv shows laughing at right-wingers & flat earthers etc#i mean people whose entire youtube library is filled with stories about successful content creators doing Bad thing and losing their career
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biting my lips and telling myself it took several years for rowling's TERF-y opinions to be so well known it damaged her public reputation, before realising that cawthon's donations to conservative politicians were made known while trump was still the fucking president
#'oh scott's quieter about wanting us all dead' oh i guess that makes it okay then!#that his donations to conservative politicians who went on to use that money to make your life worse are public knowledge#but he doesn't post Hot Takes to twitter so Scotty is good and fine!#'oh im into markiplier' the guy who defended pewdiepie when he was getting called out for white supremacist bs#and still profits off cawthon today#'im into game theory' the guy who repeatedly inserts ableist and transphobic doctrine into his videos#and again mutually prospers with cawthon#'im gonna pirate the games--' and be silent about them right?#no fanart no fanfiction no discussing it publically on twitter?#or are you just ensuring you didn't give money to him#and are fine to do whatever else#because if it's the latter you might as well pay for the games. don't stop there put your hogwarts house back in your bio.#no more bullying harry potter fans because you're the exact same as them.
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People joke that the artists leaving twitter are gonna move on to doing show and tells at the local library instead , but i actually think that sounds really nice, id love to do that
#i talk#and im kind of sick of posting on da web. sorries#it just doesn't feel right anymore ... yknow#ive felt weird about it so much recently i think its just so unnatural now that everything is almost never catered to individuals#you dont get to choose what you see nowadays. less human input and more of making you watch the equivalent of your slop of the day#and a gacha game algorithm.#yknow when gacha gamers would spend thousands on gambling hoping to get their favourite png girl#thats how tiktok works . its designed to keep you scrolling hoping youd find something you want to see#and it brings the idea the more you scroll the more youll see the thing you wanna see yknow#and most of whats being shown to you is not of your choice. you can leave your phone on one tiktok and itll be fine it doesn't really need-#our input#sometimes. youd just do that too to ''increase'' your chances of getting tiktok videos youd like sorta like a gacha game#i think its ?? not my favourite!
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