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[hunkydrifterscatalogue]

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Art: @gruvu

[bills-library]

Krz zdv wkhudsb, Eloo?

what-

[autistickaitovocaloid]

Today in vc we discussed the concept of a gmod funeral so I drew my interpretation.

[mescalitoart]

Got my present wrapped up early

/throws him under the christmas tree

[grayeet]

I love the pale garden and how it's like a parallel to dark forests. I love how the two divert expectations.

Dark forests, despite their name, are saturated and full of life. Even compared to regular forests, there's a lot more biodiversity than many of the "basic" biomes. There's three whole different trees found there, giant mushrooms, and plenty of flowers. They're one of the biomes capable of spawning a lush cave underneath it. It has its dangers just like any other overworld biome, obviously, but it's nothing overly more than anywhere else. Traversing it can be tricky sometimes and illagers may take residence in the biome's woodland mansions, but it's ultimately a very colorful and lively environment.

Opposing it is the new pale garden. Usually white and light colors are seen as pristine and good, but the pale garden takes it the opposite direction and goes right into uncanny valley territory. It has none of the color of dark forests, none of the biodiversity, none of the liveliness. It has trees and moss that look familiar, but something is off. It has a signature mob, but even the creaking is just a puppet of the trees, not really sentient, not really even plotting against anything. There's "life", but, once again, it's wrong.

I think the pale garden is a wonderful addition to Minecraft's world building as it is, but the deliberate parallel to dark forests? Delicious.

[heartorbit]

happy halloween! 🎃🐈‍⬛👻🐇

[valessacat]

So here's the thing about Johnny Silverhand.

If he were a romance option, it wouldn't even be close; he'd be the most popular option. Ao3 backs this up. But the game doesn't let us choose him.

The four options the game gives us are fine as far as romance goes--they lack the depth of old-school Bioware and Larian. Panam, Judy, and Kerry are beautifully written, wonderfully messy characters. Oh yeah, then there's River (no seriously, CDPR did him dirty). But once you play through their stories, you're kinda done with them. Sure, you get some random texts, a handful of repeatable dialog, a repeatable date--but that's such a tiny sliver of your game time.

Johnny's with you for most of the game. Over the course of many hours, you get to see him warm up to V (a stand-in for you, the player), playfully trade barbs with them, and then solemly swear to off himself in order to save their/your pathetic ass.

If you think about it for more than two seconds, V has this near-psychotic level of intimacy with Johnny. The "guy in my head" trope makes a lot of narrative sense, especially in video games. It's a more interesting story when the main character has someone to talk to, rather than internal monolog or muttering to themselves. But if you overthink the trope to a concerning degree, as I have--you understand that Johnny is forced to quietly look away while V is taking a shit, showering, flicking the bean, getting random boners, violently puking blood, etc. This is way more intimacy than I have with my husband of 15 years. We close the door when we use the bathroom.

They're sharing dreams, seeing each other's memories. They pick up each other's habits. V can play the guitar. Johnny's less of an asshole and learns how to let go. They're changing each other for the better.

All the other romances in CP77 feel so damn shallow next to Johnny and V. That's not the fault of the romancable characters. It's that they've been through some very fucked-up shit together, and I don't know how you don't trauma-bond over all that. V and Johnny are the only two souls on earth who know what it's like to be an engram on a chip inside a corpse's head.

Their story is so beautiful, tragic, and fucked-up that I don't want it to end.

And I really wanna fuck that rockerboy.

[nyaagolor]

more AA interview facts because ppl liked the last post more than I expected

When it comes to the main trilogy, the title of "favorite character" among the male staffers is pretty unanimously Godot. According to Takumi, female staffers (and fans) prefer Edgeworth. No one on staff expected Edgeworth and AA in general to be so popular among women but have come to love it

When Maya Fey is surprised, the liquid coming out of her mouth is not spit, it's actually ectoplasm

Gumshoe has "a lot of pure and warm love within him" that he pours into investigating instead of a girlfriend. He's married to his job, but would make a lovely husband otherwise

Franziska and Edgeworth don’t wear their prosecutor's badges because it's "more chic"

Diego was planning on proposing to Mia around the time he was poisoned

Edgeworth is "bad at communicating with people and horses"

The VA for Godot was so happy with how his lines came out that he uses the Godot voice to flirt with people irl

The office where all the staff works would receive chocolates on Valentine’s day addressed to the characters

While Takumi “can perfectly imagine Phoenix working in the service industry” he thinks that while in art school, he would do painting modeling for money

[nvoc]

SKYRIM ; scenery 44

[kibby-reaper]

in light of recent events aka ellis' extremely sexy underpants

- mod kibby

[jenivere2]

little meow meow

[hunkydrifterscatalogue]

✨Guest Spotlight✨

Meet @gruvu, zine artist and part of the mod team!

"Howdy! I am a freelance artist trying to pay off student loans and enjoy mysterious, rugged old men. I enjoy hiking, fishing, and wearing ball caps with Hawaiian shirts."

You can find Gruvu here on Tumblr and on Bluesky.

[daily-basil]

Cool plant fact 🌿 ~

template if you want

[hisui555]

Cooking commentary

Or, as my grandma would say : "That's a dish traditionally enjoyable by two people : one to distract the cook, the other to throw it out the nearest window."

Bonus :

(Had the idea to have Hero try to comfort him with kind words, only to accidentally finish him - "Don't worry I mess up vivariums too sometimes and then I can't house the beetles I catch" - with Assok laughing their fabric ass off but... meh, long enough already.)

[oaksapling]

Ransom, Trey, and Nicky

[elbiotipo]

Paradox game event:

A Burgeroisie Plot?

"Donald Trump, the President of the United States, is visiting our country. Since he is of the Usamerican Consumerism faith, our diplomats think we might sway him with a proper gift."

Do it. (Lose 24.3 Gold, a Mobile McDonalds spawns in our capital, +15 relations with the United States)

We don't have time for this nonsense. (Gain 5 Prestige)