#or playing video games or board games

[ilkkawhat]

3.18 Precious Metal

[swiftlydnp]

oh my goddd the video on pj's channel has such cozy vibes it was like we were let in to couples' board game night i absolutely loved the vibes dnp arguing and the please standby sign was soo funnydkdkfkfkf 10/10 comfort vid just sooo good

[what-the-flowers]

Why does watching this video feel like attending a dinner party with a married couple

[soundshypnotic]

I am delighted to meet another who has used hypnosis for the sake of cheating at Nintendo games. I will typically have a suggestion that when I announce "Crash!" my partner will be compelled to veer off the track.

What methods do you use?

Oh, it's fun to use pleasure triggers I find in these instances. Once the opponent is properly softened up from their own aroused state (not always necessary by any means but a grand thing to playfully rub in their face), it's easy to start just using hypnotic pattern and narrating to them what comes next. A fun one is to make the power ups into different effects, so if they have the power up they have a delicious dilemma if they want to actually use it. If they still need a little correction, it's always great to make them getting hit by items separate effects. I find the randomness to keep the playful tone and mood I want. While I'm not really competitive by nature in games, this is a delightful place to abuse one's power.

[amemoryofwot]

The true cultural integration is when you come from a games family but your partner does not

[azurityarts]

GIFT BASKET

I'm a bit late, but happy One Year Anniversary to Hi-Fi RUSH! I've sang my praises for this game before, but getting to see the development team's thoughts and thanks for the game was the ribbon that tied the gift basket all together. Thank you again to all the incredible folk at Tango Gameworks for making this unforgettable experience! ⚡🎸🎵

[sodapop--stims]

Caligura

for @thescoottftoot

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[weaseltotheface]

Who wants to come hang out in my shitty messy apartment and watch anime and do arts and crafts

[moon-blanket]

i love guy i love guy i love guy i love guy.

I love your funny words pizza man.

[cillianwilder]

I Built a Complete Magic: The Gathering Fallout Experience

[thefirstknife]

While I 100% agree that if people aren't having fun they should take a step back/quit, I don't like the "if you're not having fun just go find another game" argument because it's so often used to shut down actual legitimate criticism from people who are otherwise enjoying the game but want genuine problems to be addressed. (I've seen it, for example, when people try to bring up bigotry in games and suggest maybe making some changes to remove it. I always get wary when I see people say it now.)

Oh yeah absolutely. There's real criticism that we have to be able to point out and discuss. A lot of the times people use this for any minor criticism someone has and I agree, that's often a way to shut down the conversation. Criticism in general is supposed to come from a place of love: you love something and you want to see it be better.

Unfortunately, in this case, when the community turns into ONLY negativity and criticism, it's kinda hard to believe they care about the game anymore. If people still had some positive stuff to engage with and were enjoying the game but had issues, then sure. But most of the negativity online right now is just purely rage bait. Bungie apparently has no redeeming qualities, and Destiny is dead. Misinformation is spreading about everything: all devs abandoned Destiny to work on Marathon (claim with no source that's accepted as fact and makes no sense: Destiny is the only game making them money, they can't abandon it before Marathon is out. Like, logically), monetisation is the worst in the industry (I genuinely don't believe that they play other games if they think that Destiny's monetisation is the worst in the industry), Bungie is maliciously banning people for fun (????) but also Bungie isn't banning people enough, Bungie is maliciously making server issues and didn't develop a "fix server" button in their office, game development is easy and Bungie is just lazy and the devs don't want to tell us anything because they're evil, Destiny is falling apart and nobody is playing anymore (just trust me bro), and most recent one which is possibly the most baffling of all - Bungie Foundation is a scam to write off taxes. Yes, that is currently discourse (which apparently gets recycled every year). Bungie Foundation, a charity organisation that's been going on for 13 years and is an independent registered organisation, is a scam. This is where we're at with the community mentality. And there's even more.

When we're at this point, it's truly something else. Like, if they believe conspiracy theories about Bungie and think Bungie is scamming them, maybe they just shouldn't play the game anymore. Why are they still here if they think this is all a scam? I would drop the game if I believed any of this so strongly.

Normal people having criticism and all is perfectly fine however! I did my fair share especially recently about the season pass pricing changes which I called a predatory practice and still believe it is. There's a lot more stuff to complain about while still enjoying the game and not basing your entire online existence and personality on hating Bungie. If they've got nothing else to do besides sitting on twitter shitting on Bungie, maybe it's time to move on.

I've also had my suspicions about the motives for hardcore Bungie hate after the incidents involving transphobic attacks on Bungie devs following the LF showcase, as well as all the crap about Nimbus and their VA. Given the recent developments about the general anti-LGBT+ mentality, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a contingent of people who are focusing on Bungie more than anyone else for how outspoken they are in their support for LGBT+ causes. Like, not to do some big reach or something but it's fairly curious that gamers online are adopting the anti-LGBT+ sentiments while Bungie is aggressively supportive. It just rubs me the wrong way that the one company that's committed to this and has been for years before most other companies jumped on the bandwagon is the one that they're choosing to paint as the worst villain. And the LGBT+ support isn't even all, as Bungie has other initiatives where they actively support women's right, reproductive rights, poc rights, disability rights and so on). I don't know, I've been a part of the gaming community for a long time and while there's been massive changes since the early days (and since gamergate days), the issues of bigotry in gaming remain. It feels particularly suspicious to, out of ALL companies, single out Bungie which invests in charities and progressive causes. Like, in the grand scheme of things, every corpo is robbing me blind, I know that, I have to give money to corpos to live on this Earth, so I at least want to give it to a corpo that considers me to be a human being and funds causes that promote my rights, instead of wanting me dead.

Ironically, all of this weird hate makes it harder to have actual normal criticism. It just gets drowned and lost in the sea of exaggerated bullshit and lies and conspiracies perpetuated by people who just don't seem to like the game anymore. At the end of the day, it's a video game. Whatever criticism we have, if it gets to the point where we just can't handle the state of the game, the best way to show it is to simply stop playing. A deluge of harassment on twitter will not bring about meaningful change nor will it adequately convey our criticism to anyone. If they truly want some changes, they would do this criticism in a way that matters, instead of creating a horde of angry gamers who will latch onto every lie and create a hate bandwagon.

[shaolinhunks]

On Ashrah/Reptile and Kuai Liang/Harumi

I've noticed that most people feel like these two pairings need more backstory to make sense. As much as I enjoy the story overall... I agree. I feel like if they were fleshed out a bit more (What drew Reptile to Ashrah so soon after his family's death? We know how Kuai Liang felt, but what did Harumi find attractive about him?), more people would be open to them. The potential is there, but maybe the NRS writers weren't given the opportunity to spend much time developing these ships.

I actually have a Kuai Liang/Harumi fic that I've been working on, and eventually I'd like to write one for Ashrah/Reptile, too. Again, the potential is there. I feel like imagining the scope of what their motives could be will help me accept NRS's decisions more.

Anyways, I hope to start posting the first fanfic on here soon!

[telamonz]

mcslahser / slasher & slicer ( boss fighting stages : rebirth ) stimboard for @angrily-yours-sys . thank you for the request ! - no nsfw interaction please !

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[moonscape]

emery was just telling me on how he joined a pmd server and someone was spouting bs about "unionizing against chatot and his wage abuse" so she sent them my post explaining the system put in place by the exploration federation and it IMMEDIATELY got accused of being a romhack like girl are you fucking fr. people really are just this stupid about his character on purpose huh

[clementimetodie]

something messed up about the acknowledgement that even adult animals play (and it's good for them), but play is discouraged of adult humans

part of this, I think, is the idea that if you are playing, you are shirking your responsibilities. and sure, humans can fall into the bad habit of using play as escapism and at the end of the day keeping food on the table/taking care of family, etc. should take priority

but if there's a mental health aspect to play in animals, why do we ignore those benefits for humans?